Rinaldo Hopf

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Rinaldo Hopf (born June 30, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German artist , photographer , publisher and curator .

Life

Rinaldo Hopf studied art , religious studies and ethnology in Freiburg im Breisgau , San Francisco and Bremen from 1974 to 1981 . From 1982 to 1987 he worked as an art therapist in forensic psychiatric hospitals in San Francisco and Berlin . Scholarships took him to Rome in 1988 , Istanbul in 1992 and New York in 1995 . In 2017 he was Artist in Residence at the Tom of Finland Foundation in Los Angeles . Parallel to his own artistic work, he curates exhibitions and, together with the journalist Axel Schock, is the editor of Mein Schwules Auge , Issue 3 to 14 (2006–2017), published by the konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke . Since 1995 he has lived mainly in Berlin with his partner.

Exhibitions

  • Queer Biennial, Los Angeles (group exhibition), 2018
  • Never Ending Edging, Aedaen Gallery, Strasbourg (GA), 2018
  • Pleasure Park, Tom of Finland Foundation , Los Angeles (solo exhibition), 2017
  • Postcards from LA, The Ballery, Berlin (EA), 2017
  • Pleasure Park - Homage to Tom of Finland, art treatment, Munich (EA), 2017
  • 10 Years Galerie Mooiman, Citadel, Den Bosch (GA), 2017
  • My Porn Eye, Galerie MooiMan, Groningen (GA), 2017
  • Sexualidades - Erotismo y Diversidad en la Coleccion Visible, Mula Fest, Feria de Madrid (GA), 2017
  • Cuba Libre, Art Treatment, Munich (EA), 2016
  • Cuba / Kuba, The Ballery, Berlin (EA), 2016
  • The Films of my Youth: Fassbinder - Pasolini - Warhol, The Ballery, Berlin (EA), 2016
  • “So it's a girl”: Homage to Erika and Klaus Mann, Schwules Museum , Berlin (GA), 2016

Further exhibition locations

  • Faubourg Gallery, Amsterdam
  • Art @ Large, New York
  • Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York
  • Gallery Square Circle, Auroville , India
  • Adonis Art Gallery, London
  • Ataturk Cultural Center, Istanbul
  • PS1 Museum, New York
  • Post Fine Arts, Freiburg
  • NGbK , Berlin
  • Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, Los Angeles
  • MARS Art Space, Phoenix, Arizona
  • Leslie & Lohman Museum , New York
  • Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
  • German Foundation, Muśee d'Art Contemporain
  • Cascade capacitor, Basel
  • Museo MAC Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo
  • Museo del Chopo, Mexico City
  • Sri Aurobindo Exhibition Hall, Pondicherry, India

Publications

  • Rinaldo Hopf, Arnold Stadler & Ursula Prinz, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, catalog, 1988
  • Vollbild AIDS- An art exhibition about life and death, Frank Wagner, NGbK, 1988, ISBN 978-3-926796-02-8
  • Rinaldo Hopf, peintures, Deutsch Foundation, Muśee d'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, and Kunstamt Neukölln, Berlin, catalog, 1992
  • Cruelty, Rinaldo Hopf & Martin von Ostrowski, Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin, 1993, ISBN 3861490137
  • Positions on gay art, Rinaldo Hopf & Martin von Ostrowski, Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin, 1997
  • Golden Queers , Robert Atkins, Verlag Rosa Winkel, Berlin, 1998
  • Subversiv , Ralf König & Thomas W. Sokolowski, Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen, 2004, ISBN 3-88769-333-7
  • Amore , Mario Wirz & Matthias Herrmann, Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen, 2006, ISBN 3-88769-354-X
  • My gay eye : Numbers 3-14, editors Rinaldo Hopf & Axel Schock, Konkursbuchverlag, Tübingen, 2006–2017, # 13,  ISBN 3887693981
  • Trickster: Artworks 1968–2012 , various authors, Konkursbuch Verlag, 2012, ISBN 3887697820
  • LOVE AIDS RIOT SEX, Frank Wagner, NGbK, 2014, ISBN 978-3-938515-56-3

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personal data
SURNAME Hopf, Rinaldo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German artist, photographer, editor and curator
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Breisgau