Artist Hanne Lippard and Italian musician Renato Grieco will perform a new repertoire in the palace chapel at 3pm on Saturday 24 May. Their collaboration is a harmonic dialogue between the acoustic vocal tones of the viola da gamba and Lippard's distinctive spoken word. Characterised by a reduced, distilled approach to composition, this work represents a unique synthesis of melody and speech.

This performance coincides with the public launch of Valdemars Slot as a contemporary arts destination, where Lippard presents installations inside the entrance tunnel and old corn barn in the palace grounds. Lippard's and Grieco's collaboration grew organically from their independent practices, continuing a partnership that began earlier this year during Lippard’s residency at Villa Massimo in Rome and their concurrent residency at Fondazione Morra in Napoli.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Hanne Lippard

Hanne Lippard’s live performances and sound installations investigate the spoken word as an instrument to shape meaning. Lippard has recently been awarded with the Preis der Nationalgalerie 2024 and is a Prize Fellow at the Deutschen Akademie Villa Massimo in Rome (2024–25). She has exhibited and performed at institutions including MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; CCA, Berlin (2022); FRAC Lorraine, Metz (2021); MHKA, Antwerp (2021); and RIBOCA2, Riga (2020).

Renato Grieco
Renato Grieco is a composer and musician from Naples, south Italy. Grieco has been performing internationally since 2012, both as a solo artist (under the moniker kNN) and in numerous collaborations as musician, performer and sound dramaturge. Grieco's music originates in musique concrète craftsmanship, culminating in orchestrations where period instruments, imaginary lutherie, and sculptural rooms coexist. Speculative folklore, vocal architecture, and hauntology are the core of his practice.