With [sculpture trail], Luxembourg Art Week brings together a selection of works and installations presented in open air. Their placement traces a route through the city, inviting encounters with art along the streets, in everyday journeys and places.
[sculpture trail] benefits from the generous support of the City of Luxembourg.
With the kind support of Banque de Luxembourg
Gregor Hildebrandt
Saar, 2026
Patinated bronze, metal rod, 276 x 49 x 49 cm
Presented by LOHAUS GALLERY
Location
Banque de Luxembourg
14, boulevard Royal
L-2949 Luxembourg
The bronze columns derive from a series of columns made out of compression-molded vinyl records that the artist began in 2006. He found the record bowls at a Berlin flea market in 2003. The repetition of forms and their potentially infinite expansion are a clear reference to Constantin Brâncuși’s Endless Columns, created almost 100 years earlier. In his columns, Hildebrandt uses the same principle of repetition, connecting it to the analog recording materials that form the backdrop of his work.
Formally inspired by Minimalism and Abstract Expressionism, Hildebrandt’s work draws on a wide range of literary, cinematic, musical, and architectural sources to evoke collective and personal memories. The German artist mainly works with analog sound storage mediums. In the late 1990s, he started using audiocassette tapes in his paintings before integrating VHS tapes and vinyl records in the 2000s. The choice of medium reflects Hildebrandt’s profound love of music, which is an integral part of his creative process. Yet his works never produce a sound. Instead, sound and lyrics are embedded in the materials themselves, revealed through titles that only partially inform us about their nature.
Biography
Gregor Hildebrandt is one of the leading contemporary German artists working with analogue sound and image storage media. Since the late 1990s, he has developed a distinctive artistic language using cassette tapes, VHS tapes and vinyl records to explore themes of memory, time, music and cultural history. After studying at the Universität der Künste Berlin under Christiane Möbus and Lothar Baumgarten, Hildebrandt established an internationally recognised practice spanning painting, sculpture, photography and installation. His works transform obsolete media into visual and sculptural forms, preserving traces of sound and personal memory while remaining physically silent. Hildebrandt has exhibited extensively in Europe and internationally, with solo exhibitions at institutions including Kunstmuseum Bonn, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe and Kunstverein Hannover. His works are included in major public and private collections, among them the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart. Drawing on literature, film and music, Hildebrandt's practice investigates how cultural memories are stored, transmitted and transformed through material objects. His works occupy a unique position between conceptual art, minimalism and personal narrative.
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