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katja pilipenko


not everyone will be taken to a bunker
everything is clear—everything is wrong
in search of lost security

arguments
synonyms
blue-on-blue
the king is naked
the list of mystifications
spotlight


Katja Pilipenko is an artist from Moscow, currently based in Hamburg. She is interested in surrounding mediated truths, language and perception, mythologies and ideologies within politics and society. She uses a variety of media, including photography, video, performance, painting, and printing techniques.



EDUCATION

2019–2021
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, MFA

2017–2018
Guest student at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart

2014–2019
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, BFA

2006–2012
Moscow Stated University of Printing Arts, Diploma  



CURRENT AND UPCOMING

September - December 2024: Residency at Fondation Fiminco in Paris - Romainville
TALENTS FAREWELL, 8.12.24, 3 - 7 p.m., Fondation Fiminco, Paris,
16:30 Artist Talk, Katja Pilipenko and Maik Gräf with Anaïd Demir



EXHIBITIONS

2024
Unter die Erde – unter die Haut, Galerie Jena e.V. im Kulturbahnhof, Jena
OPEN STUDIO #1, Fondation Fiminco, Paris
Not Everyone Will Be Taken To A Bunker, Hajusom e.V., St. Pauli Bunker, Hamburg, (solo)
The Myth of Home - A Questioning, Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg, group exibition
OBLIQUE. Navigations between Slanted Angles and Shadow Zones, 8. Salon, Hamburg
Tbilisi Art Fair, with Galerie Melike Bilir, Tbilisi, Georgien

2023
ENNUI. Schwebezustände – States of Suspension, MOM art space, Hamburg

2022
Selbst und Zweck, ICAT - Institute for Contemporary Art & Transfer, Hamburg
Protection Procedures, Studio Peragine, Hamburg
Lo(l) – Embodied Language, Kunsthaus Hamburg

2021
All of this justifies thinking of…, MOM Art Space, Hamburg
»TRANSITIONS«, Holzmarkt 25, Berlin
MFA Graduate Show, HFBK Hamburg

2020
Hiscox Kunstpreis 2020, Hamburg 
If not now..., MOM Art Space, Hamburg

2019 
PAT PAT PAT. A Romance with (Im)material, Atelierhaus, Semperdepot, Wien
f**ake, xpon-art gallery, Hamburg
Graduate show, Hfbk Hamburg
Digital Painting, State of the Art Berlin
PAT PAT PAT. Finding comfort in materiality, Galerie der HfbK, Hamburg

2018 
Academiae Youth Art Biennale, Fortezza Franzensfeste, Italy
big MASSEPHASE, Sprink, Dusseldorf
Mullican Class, Galerie der HFBK
The space behind things, MOM Art Space, Hamburg

2017 
Folgendes, Sighning session, Hfbk Hamburg
Wunsch- und Wunderkammer, 250 Jahren Jubiläum HfBK Hamburg
Unverblümt Dreiste Impertinenz, BUNKERHILLGalerie, Hamburg

2015 
Imag(in)ing Identity, Frappant, Hamburg



CURATORIAL

2024
Boon or Bane?, MOM art space, Hamburg

2020
Against The Wall, screening intervention in public space, Bartelsstrasse, Hamburg



GRANTS

2024
dépARTS, Fondation Fiminco residency in Paris - Romainville, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
Kunststipendien der ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius
Project grant, Hamburgische Kulturstiftung

2023
Project grant, Claussen-Simon-Stiftung

2022
stART.up scholarship Claussen-Simon-Stiftung
Scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds 'Kickstarter'

2021
INITIAL – Special Grant of the Akademie der Künste Berlin
Leo Baeck Foundation grant

2020 
Hiscox Kunstpreis
Freundeskreis der HfbK Project Sponsorship



REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS

2024
Not Everyone Will Be Taken to a Bunker. Katja Pilipenko at Hajusom e. V. Text by 
Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner
Not Everyone Will Be Taken to a Bunker. Rundgang.io

2022
Den Finger in die Wunde, gallerytalk.net. Text by Katrin Krumm
Am Drahtseil, Lerchenfeld Nr. 65. Text by Raphael Dillhof
Zusammen fragil, gallerytalk.net. Text by Katrin Krumm
Auch ich ein Influenzer, szene-hambug.com. Text by Karin Schulze
LO(L) – Embodied Language. Kubaparis

2021
»TRANSITIONS«. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Daniel Laufer
Page, issue 393. “Wechselwörter: Begriffe wie Gänsewein und Wasser” page-online.de. Text by Lena Simonis

2020
Dangerous Puns. Katja Pilipenko and the crisis of truth. Text by Filipe Lippe for Hfbk Rhizome
Hiscox Prize 2020. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Ralf Schlüter

2019
Pat pat pat, finding comfort in materiality. Exhibition catalogue. Text by Tonia Andresen, Marlene Mannsfeld


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