Hannah Stippl

In recent years I have focused on exploring structures such as thickets, embankments or overgrown slopes. Each project consists of a series of works on paper and canvas with a specific inspiration. My paintings build up layer upon layer, and since I'm working on many pieces at the same time, that can take years. New paintings are started unintentionally: some colored areas, patterns, overlays. Compositions are built up by overlapping layers of paint with the help of stencils and historic pattern rollers that I collected for the last twenty years. Over time, the layers entangle and certain atmospheres become perceptible. It is important to me to keep the random, accidental, and inappropriate visible, like spots and graffiti-like fragments, left-overs and stray lines. Words and patterns rely on repetition, like magic spells. In my works, I connect research in fields as mythology, feminism or ecology with individuality, emotion and beauty. Together, these structures evoke ambiguous natural sceneries I am interested in, familiar and alien at the same time.

Throughout my career I blended my love of pattern with a deep interest in landscape and plants. This is what informs my work in the studio, in the garden, and as horticultural ins...

Hannah Stippl is a contemporary Austrian artist, curator and landscape theorist. She is best known for her impressive landscape paintings which playfully balance at the interface of ornament and image.

Born in Vienna, Hannah Stippl studied philosophy, art history and painting at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Here she earned her doctorate in the field of landscape theory in 2011. Her dissertation offers the first comprehensive review of the landscape-theoretical watercolors by Lucius Burckhardt. From 2005-2017, she taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna in the Department of Landscapedesign/art. Her theoretical preoccupation with cultural-historical and ecological aspects of plants, gardens and landscapes fundamentally influences her artistic work.

Hannah Stippl also curated numerous exhibitions and runs the exhibition space puuul in Vienna. She splits her time between Vienna, her studio in Elsbach, Lower Austria and Aguilas, Spain.

Recent Projects (selection)

2021 Blickfelder. artP.kunstverein, Perchtoldsdorf (A)
2021 Na drugi pogled // Auf den zweiten Blick // At Second Glance
2021 Entangled. Basement Vienna (A)
2019 Creative Times, Venice (I)

2018 artemisiaGARTEN, #greenARTtulln, Tulln (A)

2017 Design Week, Vienna (A)

2015 Hybrids. Envisioning Paradise. Solo-Exhibition, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (D)
2015 Guest @ Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland (NZ)

2014 Paint before you plant! Workshop & Exhibition, KAUST, Saudi Arabia (SA)
2014 Chelsea Fringe Vienna (A)

2013 (Landscape) with Flowers. Exhibition IG Bildende Kunst, Vienna (A) and Coldhouse, Botanical Garden Vienna (A)
2013 (Landscape) with Flowers. Reader (E|D) to the exhibition.
2013 The Flowerbeds. Solo-Exhibition, Artenne Nenzing (A)
2013 Mural, Geffreye Museum, Chelsea Fringe, London (UK)

2012 Paint before you plant! Workshop, Chelsea Fringe, London (UK)
2012 Garten Nutzen Ziehen. Exhibition, Artenne Nenzing (A)
2012 Young ART Lounge. Exhibition, Zürcher Kantonalbank, Vienna (A)
2012 G3 Shopping- Resort, Planting and Murals, Gerasdorf (A)

2011 Hosta Superstar – a horticultural installation, with Tony Heywood, Botanical Garden Vienna (A)

2010 - 2017 Work in Pr...