Judith Hopf

born 1969 in Karlsruhe

From 1990 - 92 studies in sculpture and painting at the HfBK Bremen

1993 - 1997 studies in fine arts at the UdK Berlin, where she graduated with honours in 1997.

From 1996 to 1998 she organized the event series "supersalons" at bbooks in Berlin. She has participated in numerous international solo and group exhibitions. Judith Hopf works in the media of video/film, drawing, performance and installation. In her work, she investigates seemingly obvious communication forms and analyses the methods of political and artistic mediation in her work as well as in art theoretical texts.

Since 1997 she has continually taken part in collective video projects. From 1997 to 2003 several video clips were created for A-Clip – a project whose basic idea consists in using the attention of the spectator in a darkened movie theater for the placement of subjective political and artistic statements which take on, satirize, or interrupt the advertising aesthetic. From 2003 to 2005 she was a part of the video group Team Ping Pong.

From 2001 to 2005 Judith Hopf was guest lecturer at the Merz Academy Stuttgart, from 2003 to 2005 guest professor of sculpture and video art at the Kunsthochschule, Berlin, Weissensee. Currently she is professor for Fine Arts at the Städelschule Frankfurt.

The artist lives and works in Berlin.

in distribution

Schulen, 2008

Villa Watch, 2005

The Uninvited – ein Dokumentarfilm, 2005

Proprio Aperto, Video/Installation 2005

see also Atelier Hopfmann>