Judith Hopf - Untitled (2)

Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:00
at PRAXES Center for Contemporary Art

On view
28 Mar-6 Apr 2014

Judith Hopf - Untitled (2)

Following the contemplation of the artist’s concrete sheep sculptures, 'Untitled (2)' moves fast-forward presenting a 10-day screening of Hopf’s film works from the past two decades. The opening night features a talk by architect, author, and collaborator Jesko Fezer, followed by a DJ set by artist Julian Göthe.

Often made in collaboration with other artists and friends, Hopf’s films carry a made-in-the-moment urgency. From performative parodies of (artistic) ambition and (anarchistic) power structures over tales of pop culture in trivial settings to ghostly narratives citing film history, the viewing program at PRAXES aims to uncover the rich variety of approaches and experiments developed in this strand of the practice. Created at the deliberately slow pace of one work a year, Hopf’s film production hints at a long-term engagement with the resilience of humor and points of collective resistance. Silly, deadpan, and dead serious, her films notoriously counter categories and easy headlines—as a character in 'Bartleby' (made with Stephan Geene) replies to every question in an interview: “I would prefer not to. I would prefer not to.”