Iris Hoppe

1970 born in Solingen (Germany), Lives and works in Cologne and Amsterdam.
My work encompasses participatory community art projects, performances in public space, mixed media installations, videos, photographs, drawings.
I am working cross-disciplinary, process-oriented, location and context-based.

1992-1996 study of autonomous fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, diploma visual arts.
1998 further education of video and audio postproductions at mediaschool, Medienschule Rhein-Erft-Kreis.

GRANTS/AWARDS:
2017 Project grant, Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh, DE
2015 Residence grant, Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, DE
2011 Project support by the National Center for Civic Education (Landeszentrale für politische Bildung NRW, DE
2008 Nomination award, "Landesförderpreis für Bildende Künstler NRW (section media art)", Staatskanzlei Düsseldorf, DE
Project grant, cultural department City Cologne (Kulturamt Stadt Koeln), DE
2004 Project grant, “Crosser of borders/Creator of borders”, Artists Union Cologne, DE.
2002 Basic grant, the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, NL
2000 Project grant, "0.", Amsterdam Foundation for Arts, VSB Fonds, NL
1999 Project grant, "Inside Out", Rotterdam Art Foundation, NL.

Selection
SOLO shows:
Grenzzirkel (border-circle), Raum für Gäste, Aachen, DE
2019 Zeit(ver)lauf (course of time), open space, Kunstverein Leverkusen Schloss Morsbroich e.V., DE
2017 #pssst, performance during City Occupations II: Body Art, Monheim am Rhein, DE
2008 Border-marking Cologne, billboard campaign in the city Cologne, DE
(www.grenzmarkierungen-koeln.info),
Apple of Paradise, Luther Church, Cologne, DE
2002 Meeting Point, video project on information screens, simultaneously at 26 railway stations in Germany, Deutsche Bahn AG, DE
Meeting Point Mobil, LED - wall, Zeithaus, VW Autostadt, Wolfsburg, DE
1999 Inside Out, site specific audiovisual installation, Gil & Moti Homegallery, Rotterdam, NL

GROUP shows:
2021 A Rose (is A Rose), exhibition project against female genital mutilation, organized by HOHENTHAL UND BERGEN Curator: Dodi Reifenberg, Berlin, hosted by SHIM Art Network
Sense of Balance, Coronopoly project, LTK4 Lutherchurch Cologne, DE
24 artists- 24 multiples, Raum für Gäste, Aachen, DE
2020 Mind Your Step, Zone2Source, Het Glazen Huis, Amstelpark, Amsterdam, NL
#reallife, (with Alice Musiol) shop windows of former "Lust for Life", city center Aachen, invited by Raum für Gäste, Aachen, DE
2019...