Hans-Peter Feldmann (*1941; †2023 Düsseldorf, Germany), a particular sense of humor is characteristic to his practice as a conceptual artist. Curious rummaging and disassembling, obsessive collecting and playing with ephemera and things of everyday life are his trademarks. In doing so, Feldmann shrewdly and astutely subverts the rules of high culture and the art market. He works photographically, with collages and in series of the most diverse, often profane objects. He intervenes into paintings or banknotes by adding tiny details, like a red nose and thus counteracts the seriousness of the depictions. Feldmann was awarded the Hugo Boss Prize in 2010.

His works have been shown in solo exhibitions at Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany (2025), Kunsten Museum of Modern Art, Aalborg, Denmark (2024), Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2019, 2015), Saarland Museum – Neue Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany (2019), Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria (2017), C/O Berlin, Germany (2016), Nationalgalerie Berlin, Germany (2013), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2013), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (2011), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (2007) and many others.

Furthermore, the artist has taken part in numerous group shows, including exhibitions at the Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2024), MMK, Frankfurt/Main, Germany (2023), Museum of Art, Lisbon, Portugal (2022), Nouveau Musée National de Monaco (2020), Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spain (2019), Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Germany (2019), Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2018), Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK (2017), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (2015), MoMA, New York, USA (2012), 54th Venice Biennale, Italy (2009), MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (2008), Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany (2003).