Benedikt Hipp was born in 1977 in Munich. Between 2000 and 2007 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna and at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. He showed his work in solo exhibitions, a.o. at Kunstpalais Erlangen (2012) and Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen (2015); as well as in group exhibitions at Sprengel Museum Hannover (2011), Kerstnergesellschaft Hannover (2012), Bielefelder Kunstverein (2014), Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen (2017) and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2018).