SUPPORTICO LOPEZ

Born in Kirchheim unter Teck, DE

Lives and works in Berlin, DE

Education

1994 - 98

Sculpture, KHB, Berlin, DE

2000-03

MFA-Program, Hunter College, NYC

2002-03

Film Theory, The Graduate Center, NYC

Solo Exhibitions

2017

The Dig, Archive Kabinett, Berlin

2015

Das Als-ob-Prinzip, Kunsthaus Bregenz, KUB Arena, AU

Tilikum, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

2014

Monarchs, Men & Monsters, LABOR, Mexico City, MX

2013

ABC Berlin with Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Bergen Assembly Triennial 2013, Bergen, NO

2012

Nomas Foundation, Rome, IT

The Invisible Hand, Kunstverein Arnsberg, DE

The Fable of the Bees, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

2010

The Anarchist Banker, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

2007

The End of Love, Centre for Opinions in Music and Art, Berlin, DE

2006

Galerie Meerrettich – Pavillon an der Volksbühne, Berlin, DE

2004

Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions and Film Programs

2018

Forum Expanded Program #4 at Berlinale International Film Festival, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, DE

2017

Jour Fixe, 'The Pit', Academy of Fine Arts Munich, Munich, DE

Tito's Bunker, Württembergischen Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE

Altered States of Consciousness, Tabakalera International Centre for Contemporary Culture, San Sebastián, SP

Tito's Bunker, 4th Biennial D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, BIH

Jan Peter Hammer, Treasure Hunters, Film Program, mumok, Vienna, AT

Past is Not Post, Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, DE

2016

Straub/Huillet/Weiss. Fremdheit gegenüber unserer engen, vertrauten Welt, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE

The Nomadic Show, IX Shirajevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Shiryaevo Village, RU

The elegance of an empty room, Film Program, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, DE

12x12, IBB Videoraum, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, DE

2015

14th Istanbul Biennial – SALTWATER. A Theory of Thought Forms, Cinema Program, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul TR

Toys Redux – On Play and Critique, Migros Museum, Zürich, CH

The Beast and the Sovereign, MACBA, Barcelona, ES // WKV Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE

Life’s Finest Values’, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, AU

Toys Redux, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, SW

2014

Speculation And Economy: Life In Finance Capitalism, Goethe-Institut Montréal, CA

It’s the Political Economy, Stupid, Galerija Nova Zagreb, CR

Film Forum Udine / Gorizia, IT

2013

4th Athens Biennale, Athens, GR

An Opal World: Biscotti, Fernandes, Hammer and De Michele, Kunstraum, London, UK

Liquid Assets,Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AU

Liaisons dangereuses,3-day conference as part of Liquid Assets at Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AU

It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Center for Cultural Decontamination, Belgrade, RS

To have and have not,ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, DE

To have and have not,Halle 14, Leipzig, DE

Without Reality there is no Utopia, YBCA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US

It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Pori Art Museum, Pori, FI

Selected Artists, Berliner Senat Work Scholarship-Exhibition, NGBK, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin, DE

2012

Newtopia: The State of Human Rights, Cultural Center Mechelen, BE

AND Festival, Corner House, Manchester, UK

Beutezüge, Open Space Open System – Raum für Kunst, Vienna, AUS

It’s The Political Economy, Stupid, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, USA

2011

The Savage Transparence, youngprojects, Los Angeles, USA

Based in Berlin, Berlin, DE

The Anarchist Banker, Kadist Foundation SF, San Francisco, USA

Indie Lisboa 8th International Independent Film Festival, Lisbon, PT

Without Reality there is no Utopia, CAAC – Centro Andaluz de Arte, ES

LOOP, Barcelona, ES

IFFR 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, NL

Image-Movement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, CH

2010

The Art of Camo / The Art of Comouflage, Cardi Black Box, Milan, IT

Schermo dell’Arte Film Festival, Florence, IT

Dok Leipzig, 53rd International Leipzig Festival for Documentary und Animated Film, Leipzig, DE

25FPS, International Festival for Experimental Film and Video, Zagreb, HR

LISTE Art Basel 2010, CH Kulturen des Wirtschaftens / Cultures of Economics, Kulturstiftung des Bundes in collaboration with University Munich, DE

Novel II, Limoncello, London, UK

Novel II, International Project Space, Birmingham, UK

2009

The Moving Image, Radialsystem, Berlin, DE

2006

Anonym, in the Future…, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, DE

2004

Tuesday is Gone, Karvasla, Tbilisi, GE

2003

All that was not then, Year Project, New York, USA

2001

Market Place, Oni Gallery, Boston, USA

New White Biennial 2001, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Public Collections

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, CH

Filmography and performances

Frank 2003, DV, 9min., Partition (Atlantic) 2004, synchronized slideshow, 12min.; Oblivious 2005, 16mm, colour, dolby SR, 19min.; deep 2006, DV, 7min.; Der Ausflug (The Getaway) 2007, 16mm, colour, 10min.; wachbleiben (stay awake) 2007, 16mm, colour, 8min.; Wormhole 2009, synchronized slideshow, 32min.; The Anarchist Banker 2010, HD video, 29min.; The Fable of the Bees 2012, HD video, 8min.; That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Unseen, 2012 (performance); Monarchs & Men 2012, HD video, stereo, 25min; Tilikum 2013, HD video, 25min.; The Jungle Book 2013, HD video, 15 min.

Website

http://www.jphammer.de

2016

Jan Peter Hammer, Monograph, Mousse Publishing, October 2016

2015

Toys Redux – An Anthology on Play as Critical Action, Micros Museum for Gegenwartskunst & JRP⎮Ringier, by Esther Buss, Alexander R. Galloway, Raphael Gygax, Hans Ulrich Reck, Judith Welter

Sociogram With Killer Whale – On Jan Peter Hammer at Supportico Lopez Berlin, by Philipp Groll, Texte zur Kunst #98, June 2015

Tilikum’ at Supportico Lopez, by Alexander Scrymgeour, Artforum, April 2015

‘Tilikum’ at Supportico Lopez, by Andreas Schlegel, Flash Art, March-April 2015

2014

Störungen im Getriebe, Frieze d/e #17, by Esther Buss

2013

Am schönen Kollwitzplatz – Zeitgeist Kunst gegen Gentrifizierung: Jan Peter Hammers „Gedenktafel für die Verlierer der Wiedervereinigung“, der Freitag, by Stefan Heidenreich

2012

The Boy Scout Project, Archive Books, Artist’s book

2011

Art Faces The Economy, Kaleidoscope, by Nav Haq

2010

Conversation with Thomas Locher, Mousse Magazine

The Anarchist Banker, Frieze magazine, by Jörg Heiser

The Anarchist Banker, Art Press, by Thibaut de Ruyter

Gib ihm die Pistole!, Taz, April Lamm and Franz von Stauffenberg

2009

Light is a kind of Rhythm, Catalogue, by Alena Williams

2007

The End of Love, Catalogue, by Ariane Beyn

2001

Notes to the Frozen Sun, Catalogue, by Cletus Dalglish-Schommer

1999

Suspensionen, Catalogue, by Sebastian Egenhofer