We believe strongly that in artistic collaboration lies something other than compromise, something very valuable.
As a group we create site-specific installations. These installations can be seen as textures woven out of figures that are linked together by iconographic and formal criteria. The arsenal of figures spans from painting, drawing, photo, film and sound to words, performance, sculpture and architecture. Which form the figures will have, depends on the basic idea and how this idea is developed by the group, while working on site of the exhibition space.
We see our work as a journey with each exhibition representing a station on this journey. This image is enhanced by the fact that we travel, meet up, disperse and reconvene for our exhibitions all over the world. There is a definite thread of narrative running through the shows as well.
By melting our individual cores we will achieve a massive release of beautiful energy.
André Niebur (*1973) , Marie-Céline Schäfer (*1967) , Dietmar Lutz (*1968),
Christian Jendreiko (*1969), Matthias Lahme (*1974) and Sophie von Hellermann (*1975) met while studying fine arts at the Kunstakademie Duesseldorf in the 1990s and teamed up under the name hobbypopMUSEUM in 1998.
They live and work in Duesseldorf, Germany and London, UK.
exhibitions, projects (selection)
2007 Intelligent Design, Destroy Athens,
1.Athens Biennial of Contemporary Art, Athens , Greece
There is always a machine between us, SF Camerawork, San Francisco
Gamma Gamma , Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
2006 Olympia, Public, Paris, France
Eremitage, La Maison Blanche Le Corbusier, La-Chaux-de_Fonds, Suisse
2005 Mystica, Deitch Projects, New York City, USA
Echo, Deste Foundation, Athen, Greece
Ägypten, hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany
Neo Psychico, hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany
2004 Die graue Kammer (with Nina Pohl and Andreas Gursky),
EngholmEngelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Cieszyn Jazz, The Parallel Action (organised by Foksal Gallery Foundation),
Cieszyn, Poland
How to hobbypop, part of the exhibition “The how-to intensive“,
New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2003 The Melody of Destiny (performance), Tate Britain, London,UK
Theory of Everything, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
2002 Here we are in Croydon, The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Arts,
London, UK
hobbypopMUSEUM, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Die Perser, Münchner Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
studio apartment (music performance), Fair, Royal College of Arts,
London, UK
hobbypopWALK (performance), London, UK
Jetzt und Hier, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
2001 After Show Party, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Düsseldorf, Germany
White Rabbit, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA
London Onion... part of Death to the fascist insect that preys on ...,
Antony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK
Neue Arbeiten auf Papier, Malkasten, Düsseldorf, Germany
2000 Furore, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
Angel Island, NICC, Antwerpen, Belgium
1999 hobbypopMUSEUM, Duesseldorf, Germany
(one-night-shows every 2nd friday)
publications
2005 Echo, Deste Foundation, Athens
2004 Werte Schaffen, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln
2002 hobbypopMUSEUM, Hrg. Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen,
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König Köln
2000 hobbypopMUSEUM 1999, self published (out of print)