Exhibitions

2016Hobby Pop Photo Shop Museum, Belle Air, Essen, Germany
The Power of Love, Oakland Museum of California, California, USA
Open Engagement, Oakland Museum of California, California, USA
Hotel Anderes Ufer - The Attic, Drop City at Hotel Ufer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Drop City Centre, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

2015Les Franges, M HKA, Antwerpen
Fringes, Drop City, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Another Bandwagon, Vilma Gold, London
The Bandwagon, part of the exhibition The Group castillo/corrales, Paris, France
hobbypopMUSEUM, Neuer Kunstverein Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany
Surreal Estate / das Missverständnis, part of the exhibition SPARSHA, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
The Grantchester Pottery paints the stage, Jerwood Visual Arts, London

2013The Burning Bush, Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, Düsseldorf

2011Mumbai Residency, Final exhibition, Kunststftung NRW and the Goethe Institute Mumbai, Mumbai, India

2010Eastside Projects, Birmingham
Vila De Bank, Enschede, Netherlands
Right Window, San Francisco, USA
Salon des Amateurs, Düsseldorf

2007Gamma Gamma, Herzliya Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel
Intelligent Design, Destroy Athens, 1.Athens Biennial, Greec
There is Always a Machine Between Us, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA

2006Olympia, Public, Paris,
Eremitage, La Maison Blanche, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland

2005Mystica, Deitch Projects, New York
ECHO, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
Ägypten, hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf
Neo Psychico, hobbypopMUSEUM, Düsseldorf, Germany

2004Die Graue Kammer (with Nina Paul and Andreak Gursky), EnhholmEngelhorn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Cieszyn Jazz: The Parallel Action (organised by Floksal Gallery Foundation), Cieszyn, Poland

2003The Melody of Destiny, Tate Britain, London
Theory of Everything, Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

2002hobbypopMUSEUM, Munich Kammerspicle Theatre, Munich hobbypopMUSEUM, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
Here We Are in Croydon, The Galleries Show (curated by Max Wigram and Norman Rosenthal), Royal Academy, London
hobbypopMUSEUM, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York
hobbypopMUSEUM, Bonner Kunstuerein, Bonn, Germany
Studio Apartment, Fair, Royal College of Art, London
hobbypopWALK, London
Jetzt and Hier, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany

2001After Show Party, Kunstverein fur die Rhinelande and Westfalen, Düsseldorf
White Rabbit, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
hobbypopMUSEUM, (curated by Gavin Wade), Nylon Gallery, London
London Onion: Death to the Fascist Insect that Preys on...., (curated by Martin Maloney), Anthony d’Offay, London
hobbypopMUSEUM, Studio Apartment, Flesh Records, London
hobbypopMUSEUM, Alexander Jasch , Düsseldorf
Neue Arbeiten auf Papier (with Sam Taylor-Wood), Malkasten, Düsseldorf

2000hobbypopMUSEUM presents Angel Island, (with Nick Lessing & Mike Silver) NICC Antwerp, Antwerp
hobbypopMUSEUM presents La Chapelle Blanche, Stepney City, London
hobbypopMUSEUM presents Baader /Meinhof, Assembly, London
hobbypopMUSEUM presents Sandy or Painting Gives Me Pleasure, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg
hobbypopMUSEUM presents Vilma Gold - A Modern Life/FURORE, Vilma Gold Gallery, London

1999hobbypopMUSEUM presents Spiel des Lebens, (with Lutz, Furler, Niebur, Dahlem, Berckemeyer and von Hellermann), Studio Space, Dusseldorf (cat.)
hobbypopMUSEUM is founded by Lutz, Furler, Niebur, Dahlem, Berckemeyer, Djordjadze, Lahme, Christian Jendreiko and von Hellermann (cat.)

1998Mayday - The Party Is Over, (with Olivia Berckemeyer, Bjoern Dahlem, Tine Furler, Andre
Niebur, Dietmar Lutz and Sophie von Hellermann), Studio Space, Düsseldorf
Die Serie, (with Lutz, Doll, Furler, Vater and von Hellermann), Galerie 102, Dusseldorf
Hobbypop Publications, (with Lutz, Doll, Furler, Vater and von Hellermann), Alternative Art Fair, Amsterdam
Keep on riding-volkstuemliche Malerei, (with Lutz, Doll, Fuler, Vater and von Hellermann, Kunstforum Rottweil, Rottweil
hobbypopTERROR, (with Lutz, Doll, Furler Vater and von Hellermann), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

1997Eiskeller, Krieg-Student Show, (with Lutz, Doll and von Hellermann) Artothek, Karlsruhe & Wilhelmshöhe, Esslingen (cat.)
Das Banale Schoene, (curated by Helga Meister), Solingen, Reutlingen & Rotterdam (cat.)
Hello Down There, (with Lutz, Doll, Furler, Vater and von Hellermann), Gothaer Kunstforum, Cologne (cat.)
Coole Bilder, (with Dietmar Lutz, Tatjana Doll, Tine Furler, Markus Vater and Sophie von Hellermann), Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Cologne (cat.)

1995 – 97Sophie von Hellermann was head of the student union in Duesseldorf and organised many parties with splendid décor aided by the above and Bjoern Dahlem, Andre Niebur, Thea Djordjadze and Matthias Lahme

1996Lutz, Doll, Furler, Vater and von Hellermann were invited by the WestLB to paint collaboratively on a building site fence outside the bank’s new building in central Düsseldorf
Lutz, Doll, Furler, Vater and von Hellermann painted and exhibited ten 400 x 600 cm paintings in a vast empty warehouse space, founded by Michaela Odinius, D.J. who organised a party for the opening of the show Drive-In.

Selected Bibliography

2014Wood, Catherine, Gesamtkunstspiel, Mousse Magazine n. 41, December 2014, pp. 196 - 201
Spampinato, Francesco. hobbypopMUSEUM, Come Together: The Rise of Cooperative Art and Design, pp 112 - 117

Publications

2010Raving Gardens, edited by hobbypopMUSEUM & Eastside Projects, published by Eastside Projects, Birmingham

2005ECHO / HXΩ, edited by hobbypopMUSEUM, published by the Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athen

2004WERTE SCHAFFEN, edited by hobbypopMUSEUM, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther König, Köln

2002hobbypopMUSEUM, edited by hobbypopMUSEUM & Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

1999hobbypopMUSEUM, edited and published by hobbypopMUSEUM, (out of print)