With a palette that favors burnt umber, gray and army green, his dark thinly painted canvases and sculptures often come in a careworn palette of ash white, granite grey and much black. The paintings' stretchers sometimes extend into legs that might allow them to be carried like banners; some are paired with separately framed photo-based images of bearded 19th-century father figures or skeletons that seem to comment on the paintings. In his 2008 show "White Dada" at London's Alison Jacques Gallery, Dada-style montages and defaced pictures included a textbook description of electroconvulsive therapy and images of drugs of the medical, non-recreational kind.
Music
In music, Zipp teamed up with Felix Weber to produce "Freie Musik" in 2002, first called Nazihipiwelt. They formed a trio called ZLW-Trio with electronic artist Sepp Löbert. Next Zipp and Weber founded the band DA in 2006. The band featured Stefan Branca on guitar, as well as Phillip Zaiser and Kai Erdmann. DA released the LP Nach Hause in 2007. The opening nights of Zipp's exhibitions often feature musical performances by the artist and his band.
Zipp's work has been shown work in many exhibitions including “Artforum Berlin” , at Thread Waxing Space in New York City and at Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg . Zipp has also shown at galleries and museums such as Tate Modern, London, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow and OTTO, Copenhagen. He is represented by Galerie Guido W Baudach in Berlin; Alison Jacques Gallery in London; Patricia Low Contemporary in Gstaad; Harris Lieberman in New York; and Patrick Painter and China Art Objects Galleries in Los Angeles.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2013 Comparative Investigation about the Disposition of the Width of a Circle, 55th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia The Pink Noise Diaries, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan The chips are down, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York 2012 ENGLAND ATTACKED BY THE AMERICAS, Kunstverein Oldenburg BLACKOUT CHAMBERS, L´ARC DE CERCLE & DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 3 contributions to the theory of mass-aberrations in modern religions, Alison Jaques Gallery, London 2011 Beyond the Superego, Galerie Krinziger, Vienna Achtung!: solarized deterritorialization. insanity against Protestantism, Ausstellungsraum Céline und Heiner Bastian, Berlin bilobed flaps, Baronian_Francey, Brussels The World´s most complete Congress of RITATIN Treatments, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck The forbidden Conduct, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv 2010 MENS SANA IN CORPORE SANO, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel 2009 FACES, Kunstverein Heppenheim, Heppenheim The World’s Most Complete Congress Of Strange People, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin MENS AGITAT MOLEM, Sammlung Goetz, Munich 2008 WHITE DADA, Alison Jacques Gallery, London Black Pattex 78, Galería Heinrich Ehrhardt, Madrid PLANET CARAVAN? IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? a FUTURISTIC WORLD FAIR, Museum Dhondt-Daehnens, Deurle / Belgium S.S.B.S.M., Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 2007 PLANET CARAVAN? IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? a FUTURISTIC WORLD FAIR, South London Gallery, London PLANET CARAVAN? IS THERE LIFE AFTER DEATH? a FUTURISTIC WORLD FAIR,Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim / Museum in der Alten Post, Mülheim The Family of Ornament and Verbrechen, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 2006 HIER, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich Geist über Materie, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica Uranlicht, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York EEEEEEE, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin 2005 Dirty Tree Black Pills, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg man muss das adjektiv abschaffen, Baronian_Francey, Brussels 2004 Futurism Now! SAMOA leads, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles The New Breed, Part 1, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt/M. The New Breed, Part 2, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt/M. 2003 Neroin, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin The Nero Command, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York 2001 Exorcise the demons of perhaps, Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin Atrium Vagari, Kunsthaus Essen, Essen 2000 OD, Maschenmode, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin
