ABOUT
Conrad Hübbe explores the tradition of painting from a sculptural perspective with a conceptual approach. In his monochrome paintings and installations, he uses methods and techniques of translation to trace the ‚Nachleben‘ of the allegorical and symbolic power of images. Drawing on procedures of copying and sampling as ways to open an associative field, his artistic practice is linked to formalist tendencies to minimize and reduce the narrative in favour of a sensual experience – ‚Stimmung‘.
Images from art history and everyday culture from the Central and Eastern European context serve as the starting point of his artistic process. Historical objects such as postcards and stamps can serve as points of reference and refer to questions of mobility and circulation of the pictorial. His artistic practice reflects on how historical imagery can be reconfigured under the conditions of the present. Hübbe’s multi-layered, yet highly reduced works are often part of installations including paintings and sculptural objects. Expanded in scale, the figurative leans into the abstract and is juxtaposed with the painterly fetish of the gesture, when airbrushed lines are layered with thick oil paint on a white primed canvas.
Conrad Hübbe (b. 1989) lives and works in Hamburg, Berlin, and Warsaw. He studied Fine Arts in Hamburg and in the studio of Mirosław Bałka at the Academy of Fine Arts (ASP) in Warsaw. He graduated in 2022 and received his Master’s Degree in the class of Andreas Slominski at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) in Hamburg. Recent exhibitions include the solo exhibitions Love Spells at Galerie Oel-Früh Hamburg (2024) and Invocation at Galerie Wassermühle Trittau (2025), as well as the duo show Struck together with Agnieszka Mastalerz, curated by Katarzyna Piskorz at Krupa Art Foundation (2025) in Wrocław.
For further information, please get in touch: studio@conradhuebbe.com