Boris Hoppek
Kreutzal, Germany, 1970
Boris is in love with Barcelona and claims to have become accustomed to finally taking a nap ...
Boris Hoppek, German of origin, currently lives and works in Barcelona, on whose walls his chalk and spray drawings appear occasionally.
In his work he poses from a strangely ambiguous perspective topics such as love, sex, struggle, racism, nationalism or immigration in a game in which irony plays an important role through forms of exceptional simplicity and personality .
Hoppek is a multifaceted artist, whose work covers, from the most direct art such as graffiti, to elaborate cardboard shoes. It can be said that he is a master of “freestyle sewing” (freestyle sewing), since he manually produces each of his “bimbosculptures”, rag dolls for adults that have nothing to do with the asexual products of the toy industry . The Bimbos, like the rest of their characters, have penis and vagina, are sexy, colorful, funny, perverse, aggressive, morbid, ...
The work of this German artist reflects the most colorful and festive aspect of the game and of life, and by extension the spikes that surround it.
Exhibitions
2003
KULTURBUNKER (cologne)
OFFF 03 - onlineflashfilmfestival (barcelona - spain)
IGUAPOP GALLERY (barcelona)
ROJO collective - iguapop (barcelona)
URBAN-ART.INFO gallery (berlin)
INFUSION FEST (Ecuador)
GALLERY REVOLVER (düsseldorf - germany)
PEPE jeans - shoes
2004
MODAFAD collective ferran adria, bigas luna, marti guixet (barcelona)
DOODLEBUG (manchester - london - uk)
PICTOPLASMA confernce (berlin)
RINZEN neigbourhood (toy remix)
RED.gold (new york)
HELIUM COWBOY (hamburg) www.heliumcowboy.com
IGUAPOP GALLERY - silenci (barcelona)
2005
decibel (madrid)
RED.tachan (cd cover)
Apollo RED (video projection)
RUGA.dagens bilag (dvd video)
FOX PROJECT (copenhagen)
FIRST HIGH (Zaragoza)
MAGMA (Manchester)
MAKE FEET BEAUTIFUL (paris)
EUROCULTURED (manchester)
BBB bread and butter barcelona
THE ONE WEEKEND BOOKSERIES (bcn) www.theoneweekendbookseries.com
RED.golden (san francisco)
YUMMY INDUSTRIES (belts) www.yummy.ch
National Publications:
RED magazine
PALM
VANITY
NEO2
THE CREATORS
SUITE ROOM
MONOCLUB
ESETE
BELIO
International Publications:
GRAPHICS ALIVE victionary (hong kong)
ON BCN (bcn)
TOMORROW magazin (copenhagen)
WAD magazine
PIG magazin (italy)
JPEOPLE magazin (berlin)
NOW magazin (paris)
BERLINER (berlin)
RUGGED (düsseldorf)
ART OF RUE (lion - france)
WOOSTER COL. (uses)
PAGE (hamburg)
NOVUUM (münchen)
DESIGNED TO HELP (berlin)
FREISTIL 2 (Frankfurt)
GRAFFITI COLOGNE (Germany)
GRAFFITI FRANKFURT (Germany)
GRAFFITI-LEXIKON (Germany)
LIBÉRATION (paris)
DE-BUG (berlin)
MASCOTTE! (italy)
WRITING (berlin)
FRISTILE (berlin)
UBERSEE (Germany)
THE FACE (uk)
ICONOGRAPHY 2 - idn (hongkong - china)
TRIP (Brazil)
PICTOPLASMA 2 (berlin)
