About

Stephan Gripp

Stephan Gripp works as an artist, curator, author and project manager for private collections, exhibition institutions, galleries and artists.

He studied graphic design at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf and sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In the year 2001 he received the Villa Romana Prize. In addition to his own artistic work with solo and group exhibitions in galleries (Martin van Zomeren, Frehrking Wiesehöfer, among others) and public institutions, he co-founded exhibition spaces in Cologne (April in Parking Meters with Anja Dorn, Angela Melitopoulos, Olaf Karnik, Alice Kögel, among others) and Berlin (Center with Alexandra Hopf), as well as the Kai Hoelzner Gallery with Kai Hoelzner. From 2017 to November 2018 he had been director of the Salon Dahlmann I Miettinen Collection.

His professional practice is interdisciplinary. He develops exhibition formats, cultural events and guided tours. In his curatorial practice he investigates how art relates to urban and suburban spaces, architecture and design. He is particularly interested in the framework of social systems, psychological and technological structures which shape our individual and collective living conditions.
Most recently, he curated the (group) exhibitions "You are just a Piece of Action", which dealt with the artistic depiction of the human body related to the dissolution of identity and gender boundaries since modernism, and "I am a crack, I want to walk through walls", which explored the manifold entanglement of psychic and constructed spaces in art since the 1960s.

He currently focuses on the question of how artificial intelligence and the new technological media of virtual and augmented reality will affect pictorial practice and change its reception.