Hanne Lippard

Hanne Lippard’s artistic practice lies at the confluence of spoken and written word and her work is conveyed through a variety of disciplines, predominantly sound-installations and performance. Her work reflects on the abstraction of language and our ability to exist in playback, struggling with standardisation, inclusive logic, and a certain automatism of everyday language.

By appropriating content from the public sphere, she investigates how the rise in digital communication and mediation is reprogramming our relationship to language. Lippard intertwines found text with her own material, which she then manipulates through a variety of devices, such as repetition, the shifting of intonation, or the exploitation of homonyms, in order to formulate musings on contemporary life.

Since 2020, Somerset House Studios has partnered with Goethe-Institut London on an international residency programme to support a German or Germany-based female or non-binary artist working at the intersection of music, art and technology. Since 2024, that partnership has also included CTM, Berlin’s festival for adventurous music and art.

In January 2026, Hanne joins the community at Somerset House Studios for a three-month residency, supporting the development of new work commissioned in collaboration with Goethe-Institut London and CTM Festival, to be presented at Somerset House Studios' bi-annual series of experimental music and performance, Assembly in 2026 and CTM Festival in 2027.