Andy Hope 1930

Andy Hope 1930 (born Andreas Hofer) is a German artist.

Signature

Since 1998, most of the artist's works have been signed "Andy Hope 1930" (although at that time the artist was still named Andreas Hofer).[1]

Style

Hope's style borrows from Thriftstore painting, comic books and science fiction illustration, mixing these elements with artistic positions such as those of Kasimir Malevich, James Ensor, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee. He creates over-paintings, collages and cut-outs: using pencils, coloured pencils and felt-tip pens, oil, enamel, and acrylic, on such supports as cardboard, paper, canvas, recycled materials and hand-made tapestries. He also makes films and sculptures, and text too plays a major role in his works. His subject matter encompasses superheroes, dinosaurs, devils, spaceships and historical villains.[2][3]

Junk Shop

In 1996, Andy Hope moved the contents of the Munich thrift store Puschmann to an art space where they were assembled for sale together with works from a number of other artists. Paintings and drawings by Andy Hope depicting landscapes and replicating famous works by Kazimir Malevich were stuck on top of patterned wallpaper.

Superheroes

Hope's oeuvre is populated by superheroes from the Golden and Silver Age of Comics — Flash Gordon, Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman — and such futuristic objects as spaceships, laser beams and fantastic uniforms. A series of works focusing on Flash Gordon was followed by the exhibition "Batman Gallery", 2004.

Phantoms

Hope frequently paints over the top of already painted canvases, sometimes allowing parts of the earlier picture to remain visible.[4] Other works are cut into, removing the vital features such as eyes or whole faces.

Selected solo exhibitions

2013

Andy Hope 1930 presents Earth 1 belongs to Earth 2, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2012

Andy Hope 1930 When Dinosaurs Become Modernists, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland
Medley Tour London by Andy Hope 1930, Hauser & Wirth, London, England
Medley Tour by Andy Hope 1930, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, Germany

2011

Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Málaga, Spain
0,10 and a half by Andy Hope 1930, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2010

Andy Hope 1930 at the Freud, The Freud Museum, London, England
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium
ON TIME, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2009

White Space Black, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Andy Hope 1930, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
air tsu dni oui sélavy, Hauser & Wirth London, England
Andy Hope 1930, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany

2008

Valleys of Neptune, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany
Phantom Gallery, Hauser & Wirth Zürich and 7556 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, USA
City of Sokrates, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2007

The Long Tomorrow, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Sweet Troubled Souls, Silverbridge and Hauser & Wirth, private apartment Yola Noujam, Paris, France
Only Gods could survive, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2006

Trans Time, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany
This Island Earth, Hauser & Wirth London, England

2005

Welt ohne Ende (World without End), Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
Galassia che vai, Galerie Bleich-Rossi, Vienna, Austria
Neverworld Technik, Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Germany (with André Butzer)

2004

Batman Gallery, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany

2002

Hinter den Hügeln, Galerie Christine Mayer, Munich, Germany

1996

c/o Puschmann, Ausstellungsraum Balenstrasse, Munich, Germany

Selected group exhibitions

2013

Forever Young, Jugend und Jugendkult in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany
Painting Forever! Keilrahmen, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Curitiba International Biennial, Brazil
KABOOM! Comics in Art, Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany

2012

Fruits de la Passion, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The 9th Gwangju Biennale, The Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
Juwelen im Rheingold. 10 Jahre Sammlung Rheingold, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Asche und Gold. Eine Weltenreise / Ash and Gold. A Journey round the World, MARTa Herford, Germany

2011

MMK 2011. 20 Years of Presence, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt/M., Germany
Mind the Gap, Kai | 10 Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf
Der Traum vom Fliegen (The Dream of Flying), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany

2010

Was tun? Was geschieht? (What's Happening?), Sammlung Rheingold, Düsseldorf, Germany
Born in Dystopia, Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris, France
Permanent Trouble. Kunst aus der Sammlung Kopp, München / Art from the Kopp Collection, Munich, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany
"I really don't know what art is". Insights into a private collection, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany
Real Presences. Marcel Broodthaers today, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
If not in this period of time. Contemporary German Painting 1989 - 2010, MASP Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil

2009

MAN SON 1969. The Horror of the Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
amor fati, Galerie Guido W. Baudach, Berlin, Germany

2008

Vertrautes Terrain - Contemporary Art in / about Germany, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Back to Black. Black in current painting, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, Germany
Ad Absurdum. Energies of the Absurd from Modernism till Today, MARTa Herford, Herford, Germany

2007

Paul Thek. Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst (Work in Context of Time-based Art), Karlsruhe, Germany
Perspektive 07, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL
Made in Germany, Kestner Gesellschaft, Sprengel Museum, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
There is never a stop and never a finish - In Memoriam Jason Rhoades, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

2005

Schwarz, Brot, Gold, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, Germany
Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg / Phoenix Kunststiftung, Hamburg, Germany
Les Grands Spectacles, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

2004

Direkte Malerei / Direct Painting, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Heimweh: Young German Art, Haunch of Venison, London, England

2003

Actionbutton, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Deutschemalereizweitausenddrei (German Painting Two Thousand Three), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2001

Viva November, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

References and notes

  1. ↑ Barbara Fischer, Universum - Multiversum, Künstler Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, ed. 93, Magazine 4, p.2.
  2. ↑ Stephan Urbaschek, "Science Fiction and Personal Fiction: From the Mesozoic to the Multiverse in the Year 4419. A Tour of the Exhibition", Andreas Hofer. Andy Hope 1930, Sammlung Goetz, p. 65.
  3. ↑ Noemi Smolik, Andreas Hofer. Goetz Collection, Artforum, March 2010.
  4. ↑ Barbara Fischer, Universum - Multiversum, Künstler Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, ed. 93, Magazine 4, page 2-3.

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