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Andy Hope 1930 is an artist born in 1963 in Munich. Until 1010 he was known as Andreas Hofer. He conceives his exhibitions as densely complex installations that offer a glimpse of a long forgotten period, an unknown era or a yet unlived future.

Biography
Andy Hope 1930 trained at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, and at the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London from 1991 to 1997. He has lived in Berlin since 2000. While the diversity of media he employs – painting, drawing, collage, spatial installation, sculpture, video, book and object – places his work beyond easy definition, his thematic and formal references defy any categorisation. His vocabulary ranges from Christian, satanist, astrological or mythological symbolism to recollections from art history, like Malevich’s “Black Square”, which he quotes with a pair of vampiric fangs added. Without any discernible preference, he juxtaposes figures from Hollywood, pop culture and comic strip with icons of modernism or sci-fi, and confronts elements of horror from western mass media with the disgraced, banned stylistic features that mark the art of the Third Reich. Andy Hope 1930 evokes characters that exist in the uncanny of a familiar world while acting in a field of indeterminacy that offers no promises of any rules, limits or security. A Christ-like figure with a blessing hand is revealed to be Charles Manson, a village scene turns into a launch site for space rockets. Similarly unexpectedly, votive pictures or African folkloristic symbols can be seen returning to the realm of an art influenced by Ensor, Goya, Blake and Warhol.

Following his first participation in a show at the Haus der Kunst in Munich in 1995, he has exhibited in galleries in Düsseldorf, Münster, Wolfsburg, Berlin and Munich, and has been included in group shows of contemporary artists all over the world. Andy Hope 1930 is represented in important collections (Sammlung Lenbachhaus Munich, Museum Abteiberg Mönchengladbach, Centre Pompidou and internationally renowned private collections). Major solo museum shows include 'Welt ohne Ende', The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich (2005); 'The Long Tomorrow', MARTa Herford, Germany (2007); 'White Space Black', Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany (2009); and 'Andy Hope 1930 at the Freud, The Freud Museum, London (2010). He is represented by Galerie Christine Meyer, Galerie Guido W Baudach, Hauser & Wirth and Metro Pictures.

Selected publications

 * 2009
 * Goetz, Ingvild, Löckemann, Karsten, Urbaschek, Stephan (eds.), Andreas Hofer. Andy Hope 1930, Goetz Collection, Munich, 2009


 * Buss, Esther, Roberto Ohrt (eds.), Andreas Hofer. Phantom Gallery, Goettingen: Steidl Hauser & Wirth, 2009


 * 2008
 * Herford, Marta (ed.), Andreas Hofer. The Long Tomorrow, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2008 (exh. cat.)


 * 2007
 * Metro Pictures (ed.), Andreas Hofer. Only gods could survive, New York NY: Metro Pictures, 2007, ill. (exh. cat.)


 * 2006
 * Hinter den Hügeln, Paris: Edition Silverbridge, 2006 (artist book)
 * Steidl Hauser & Wirth (ed.), Only Gods could survive, Goettingen: Steidl Hauser & Wirth, 2006 (exh. cat.)


 * 2005
 * Galerie Guido W. Baudach (ed.), Andreas Hofer - Peiner Block, Berlin: Verlag Heckler & Koch, 2005, (artist book)
 * Galerie Bleich-Rossi (ed.), Andreas Hofer - Galassia che vai, Graz: Verlag Galerie Bleich-Rossi, 2005 (exh. cat.)
 * Andreas Hofer - Two Bad, Innsbruck: Verlag Galerie Bernd Kugler, 2005 (exh. cat.)
 * Lenbachhaus München/MARTa Herford (ed.), Andreas Hofer-Welt ohne Ende, Cologne: Verlag Walther König, 2005 (exh. cat.)