- Just Painting ／2024
Frank Jimin Hopp
Frank Jimin Hopp
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Born in 1994.
An artist with roots in Korea and Germany.
In 2023, she graduated from the University of the Arts Berlin, majoring in fine arts under Professor Valérie Favre.
He has also studied at Chelsea College of Arts in London (MA Fine Art course) and Hongik University in Seoul (BA Fine Art course).
His interdisciplinary work combines painting and ceramics, and often incorporates strong pop culture and political elements.
He has exhibited his work at Haus am Christpark (Germany), Saatchi Gallery in London (UK), and Documenta 15 (Germany), and is currently based in Berlin.
・Artist statement
Crisis, struggle, disaster—these may not be the first words that spring to mind when thinking of my work. At first glance, the colorful, pop, and vibrant nature of the pieces softens this impression. However, upon closer inspection, a deeper darkness emerges within the sculptures, revealing a confrontation with the contemporary catastrophe of impending climate breakdown.
The viewer is confronted with familiar consumer goods and pop culture images, transformed and distorted until they become vessels for forces that threaten to corrode the world. The distortion of this theme is accentuated by my personal approach to the material of ceramics: soft clay is molded into organic yet powerful forms, yet in the process rendered powerless to resist, reflecting a sense of inevitability and powerlessness in the face of historical consequences such as climate change and exploitative consumption.
Motifs from Western and Asian art history and classical iconography meet elements of pop culture, video games, comics, and manga. Contemporary themes are intertwined with ancient Western and Asian myths, folklore, and global archetypes. The absurdity of a world in which consumer goods are valued more highly than the planet that produces them is initially expressed through a misleading, satirical humor. For example, the gorgeous cake in Happy Earthday (2023), with its color and abundance, appears to be a metaphor for a society in which everything seems to be available in unlimited quantities at all times. However, upon closer inspection, details such as the fall of Icarus, the transformation of candles into burning trees, floods, and flickering flames reveal a dysfunctional relationship between humans and nature—a relationship marked by exploitation and failure. On the verge of collapse under its own weight and opulence, this cake embodies the tension between abundance and powerlessness, the illusion of infinite growth and impending doom, the Candy colored world of consumerism and the harshness of reality.
Image and object interact to form a whole. They are interwoven in the process of creation and in the viewing experience. The figures, structure, and colors of the paintings often influence the form of the objects, and vice versa. The combination of the individual works in the exhibition space creates multiple levels of interpretation. I aim to further deepen this connection between image and object in the future.
Frank Jimin Hopp_CV
An artist with roots in Korea and Germany.
In 2023, she graduated from the University of the Arts Berlin, majoring in fine arts under Professor Valérie Favre.
He has also studied at Chelsea College of Arts in London (MA Fine Art course) and Hongik University in Seoul (BA Fine Art course).
His interdisciplinary work combines painting and ceramics, and often incorporates strong pop culture and political elements.
He has exhibited his work at Haus am Christpark (Germany), Saatchi Gallery in London (UK), and Documenta 15 (Germany), and is currently based in Berlin.
・Artist statement
Crisis, struggle, disaster—these may not be the first words that spring to mind when thinking of my work. At first glance, the colorful, pop, and vibrant nature of the pieces softens this impression. However, upon closer inspection, a deeper darkness emerges within the sculptures, revealing a confrontation with the contemporary catastrophe of impending climate breakdown.
The viewer is confronted with familiar consumer goods and pop culture images, transformed and distorted until they become vessels for forces that threaten to corrode the world. The distortion of this theme is accentuated by my personal approach to the material of ceramics: soft clay is molded into organic yet powerful forms, yet in the process rendered powerless to resist, reflecting a sense of inevitability and powerlessness in the face of historical consequences such as climate change and exploitative consumption.
Motifs from Western and Asian art history and classical iconography meet elements of pop culture, video games, comics, and manga. Contemporary themes are intertwined with ancient Western and Asian myths, folklore, and global archetypes. The absurdity of a world in which consumer goods are valued more highly than the planet that produces them is initially expressed through a misleading, satirical humor. For example, the gorgeous cake in Happy Earthday (2023), with its color and abundance, appears to be a metaphor for a society in which everything seems to be available in unlimited quantities at all times. However, upon closer inspection, details such as the fall of Icarus, the transformation of candles into burning trees, floods, and flickering flames reveal a dysfunctional relationship between humans and nature—a relationship marked by exploitation and failure. On the verge of collapse under its own weight and opulence, this cake embodies the tension between abundance and powerlessness, the illusion of infinite growth and impending doom, the Candy colored world of consumerism and the harshness of reality.
Image and object interact to form a whole. They are interwoven in the process of creation and in the viewing experience. The figures, structure, and colors of the paintings often influence the form of the objects, and vice versa. The combination of the individual works in the exhibition space creates multiple levels of interpretation. I aim to further deepen this connection between image and object in the future.
Frank Jimin Hopp_CV
