Benjamin Hirte
Benjamin Hirte’s work explores cultural history and the construction of public and private space. By modifying signs of use and consumption, his minimalist objects foreground materiality, function, and the coded nature of reality.
Benjamin Hirte, born in 1980 in Aschaffenburg, lives and works in Vienna and Berlin. His artistic practice encompasses sculpture and text. He has been a fellow of the Schindler Residency Program in Los Angeles and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. He also received the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts and a residency grant at the ISCP in New York.
In 2016, Hirte was awarded the Ponto Prize, which included a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt (MMK3). In 2024, he was nominated for the Pauli Prize at Kunsthalle Bremen.
His work has been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including at Grazer Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Leopold Museum Vienna, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, and the Swiss Institute in New York.
Benjamin Hirte is represented by Galerie Christian Andersen in Copenhagen and Layr in Vienna.
EDUCATION
2010
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
Vienna, Austria
2006 Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Munich, Germany
2004
Education as Stonemason in Restoration
St. Georgs Bauhütte, Nördlingen, Germany
JURY
Jennifer Allen
Markus Miessen
Joanna Mytkowska
Heimo Zobernig
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
FINAL PROJECT
