Annika Hippler
Fotogramme

Luminogram series
2015 — 2024

Annika Hippler is a German artist who specialises in light kinetics and the interplay of movement and light. Her practice thus ties in with the tradition of light art. She endeavours to make transient light frequencies and wavelengths tangible by nature.

What look like drawings are luminograms, i.e. images of changes in light. They are traces that moving light sources or changes in light leave behind on light-sensitive materials. Annika Hippler's luminograms are laser drawings that depict the interaction of a laser light and water in motion on light-sensitive paper. The interplay of light, water and chemistry creates lines and shapes that are characterised by a multitude of grey hues and overlapping layers. The ephemeral nature of movement is translated into colour gradients. Luminograms are a form of recording and archiving variable processes.

2016 — 2024
Adapted installation

This installation is a real-time projection of oscillations, vibrations and waves. They are created in the water basin in front of the projection surface, which is traversed by a laser. In 1960, physicist Theodore H. Maiman succeeded in generating laser light for the first time using a ruby, at that time without any concrete idea of the possible applications. Over the past decades, laser technology and its applications in industry, medicine, science, art and entertainment have become more sophisticated. Annika Hippler has been working with lasers as an artistic material since 2007. Her installation records - like a seismograph - the movements caused by the air or the surrounding people.