Hassan Khan (b. 1975) lives and works in Berlin and Cairo.
The Infinite Hip-Hop Song (2019)

Hassan Khan’s The Infinite Hip-Hop Song (2019) is an algorithmic music installation that generates unique continuously changing hip-hop tracks. Created in close technical collaboration with computer music designer and composer Olivier Pasquet, it uses a system that combines 351 lyrical lines delivered by eleven rappers and a vast array of beats, bass lines and melodies – though driven by a system of probabilities all these elements are authored by the artist to produce an ever-changing song. Khan explores hip-hop’s ability to create meaning in contemporary times using machine logic as a compositional tool. The work challenges traditional ideas of authorship and repetition, offering a generative engagement with cultural transformations.

Khan’s broad and diverse artistic practice includes music, performance, moving and still image, sculpture, installation and text. He is the winner of the 2017 Venice Biennale Silver Lion and a Professor of Fine Arts at the Stäedelschule in Frankfurt am Main.

Recent solo e879xhibitions include:
GESTUS, Cukrarna Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2025);
Blind Ambition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2022);
The Keys to the Kingdom, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2019).

Recent group exhibitions include:
Bounding Histories. Whispering Tales, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara, Romania (2025)
Of Anarchy in Music: More Journeys in Sound National, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan (2025)
Long Gone, Still Here – Sound as Medium, Museum Marta Herford, Herford, Germany (2023);

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