Robert Lippok

Robert Lippok is a musician, stage designer, and visual artist based in Berlin. In 1984, he co-founded along with his brother the experimental musical project “Ornament und Verbrechen.”

Lippok’s works are dedicated to the combination of spatial sound and architecture and have been exhibited at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, the Hamburger Bahnhof, and the Haus der Kunst in Munich, among others. As a composer, he has collaborated with the artists Doug Aitken, Olaf Nicolai, and Julian Charrière, with architect Arno Brandlhuber, and with choreographer Constanza Macras for various dance theater productions.

Most recently, he released the solo album “Applied Autonomy” on the raster-media label. Lippok teaches at NYU Berlin and is a member of the Institut für Raumexperimente e.V., founded by Olafur Eliasson, as well as a curator at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. With his audiovisual shows and live music, he has performed at festivals such as MUTEK, Unsound, L.E.V., and Gamma, and venues such as Berghain and Funkhaus Berlin, among others.