Hans-Peter Feldmann does not produce works of art in a conventional sense. He collects, documents and arranges his own photographs, photographs taken by amateurs, pictures from newspapers, department-store decorations, toys and objects emanating from our daily lives. Through ready-mades he dissociates himself from the idea of authorship. ​

Feldmann ́s works seem to subvert all notions inherent in the art object. He manages to stimulate our capacity for understanding and to elicit collective memories, dreams and visions from trivial everyday objects. “I am not interested in the high points of life. Only five minutes of every day are interesting,” says Feldmann. ​

Düsseldorf-based Hans-Peter Feldmann is a passionate collector of images and stories, an original thinker and one of the first conceptual artists. Since the sixties, he has been collecting, producing, and exhibiting photographs, combining the humor of American conceptual artists like John Baldessari and Richard Prince with the gravitas of Germans like Gerhard Richter. His relationship to the art world has been eccentric; in 1980, he destroyed most of his work and went into early retirement, only to pick up, a decade later, more or less exactly where he left off.

Hans-Peter Feldmann was the recipient of the 2010 Hugo Boss Award, with an accompanying exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York. His work has recently been featured in exhibitions at Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Kempner Art Museum St. Louis, MOCAD, Detroit, Serpentine Gallery, London, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2017. His work has been shown internationally for over 40 years. Feldmann lives and works in Düsseldorf.​