Prateek Vijan

Prateek Vijan (b. 1991, Delhi, India) lives and works in Berlin, Germany. He completed his Master’s degree at HFBK Hamburg between 2019 and 2023. Prior to this, he participated in the Special K Mentorship Program with Kosuke Okahara and Katrin Koenning in Kolkata from 2017 to 2018.

Prateek Vijan grounds his artistic practice in his own biography, understanding and reflecting on it as a web of political, bureaucratic, and societal influences. At the center of his work lie the arbitrary ownership claims of colonial powers, their entrenchment in society, and their lasting impact on institutions. He investigates these colonial and historical structures across different contexts, employing identity shifts and investigative methods whose narrative structures often echo those of cinema.

His first solo exhibition Service By at the gallery took place in May 2025. His first institutional solo exhibition, and Others who wish to remain anonymous, was presented at Kunstverein in Hamburg in February 2025. His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen (2025); Falckenberg Collection, Hamburg (2024); and Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden (2021). He is the recipient of the Ars Viva Prize 2026, the Berenberg Culture Prize 2025, the Arbeitsstipendium für Bildende Kunst, Hamburg (2024), the Reisestipendium Neue Kunst in Hamburg (2022), and the Hiscox Kunstpreis (2021).