{"id":4342,"date":"2025-01-27T11:43:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/?page_id=4342"},"modified":"2025-04-08T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T11:21:11","slug":"judith-hopf","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/year-2025\/judith-hopf\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Hopf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When you enter Judith Hopf\u2019s installation Thy \u00c9nergies, you encounter three temporary walls\nset up like a film set inside the barn of an old homestead. Together, they form a long space,\nwith an abstract \"all-over\" mural on its walls. Blue, graphic strokes depict a stylized rain. On\nthe front wall of the room, there is another corresponding wall piece, evoking sun rays with\nsimple lines.Weather - this \"crypto-demonic\" phenomenon - is used as an aesthetic device in\nthis exhibition.<\/p>

The depicted ratio of rain to sun roughly corresponds to the actual weather conditions in the\nThy region. Here, people experience potentially nine months of rain and three months of sun.\nHowever, perceptions are shifting, as we can observe:What was once called \"bad weather\" -\nrain - has now become a welcome event, replacing what was previously considered \"good\nweather\" - sunshine. The categories of weather are fundamentally wavering. Paradoxically,\nthe sun and its warm, bright energy become both the problem of this transformation and the\nhope of reversing it: its rays are captured in large solar fields and converted into energy and\nelectricity.<\/p>

Such \"solar panels\" are also present in Judith Hopf\u2019s exhibition. Alongside her video work\nLESS, Hopf engages with the panels that are at the heart of ongoing discussions - ones she\nfrequently encounters while working at her \"rural studio\" in northern Brandenburg. In the\nvideo LESS (2022), which plays on the back of one of the walls in Kunsthal Thy, snails - the\nvideo\u2019s charming protagonists - purposefully crawl toward a solar farm to settle there, with\nreal effects: the panels are actively altered by the snails. And that is precisely Hopf\u2019s point:\nthe appropriation of currently relevant technologies by unexpected, seemingly less significant\nusers, leading to striking results.<\/p>

Snails are site-loyal, adaptable, and true world champions in energy efficiency. They move\nforward at 7 cm per minute, a pace that allows them to keep their energy consumption very\nlow. In contrast, humanity\u2019s energy balance appears bleak. Humans are the only living beings\nthat never seem to meet their energy needs - instead, they require more and more energy each\nyear.<\/p>

For Judith Hopf, the snails\u2019movements serve as a starting point for addressing this\ndiscrepancy. Through her video and \"solar panels\", she examines both the seriousness of our\ncurrent, often-questioned attempts to curb fossil energy consumption and the earnestness with\nwhich the snails go about their business. These tireless efforts share a certain idea of fatigue\nor at least slowness, yet at the same time, an unrelenting optimism that we might still succeed:\nin making our world a better place. Perhaps, however, the snails contribute far more to this\neffort than we do.<\/p>

Meanwhile, the sun continues to shine, and the rain continues to fall - outside in reality and\ninside in abstract line form, on the walls of Kunsthal Thy.

Text by Marina Ru\u0308diger and Judith Hopf<\/em><\/p>

CV<\/strong>
Judith Hopf (b. 1969 in Karlsruhe, Germany), Hochschule fu\u0308r Bildende Ku\u0308nste, Bremen\n(1990\u201392), Hochschule der Ku\u0308nste, Berlin (1992\u201396), Meisterschu\u0308lerin with Prof. Katharina\nSieverding. Since 2008, she is a Professor of Fine Arts at the St\u00e4delschule in Frankfurt am\nMain. Hopf lives and works in Berlin.<\/p>

Selected solo and group exhibitions
<\/strong>Deborah Schamoni, Munich (2025), LOOP STOP, kaufmann repetto, New York, USA (2024);\nK\u00f6lnSkulptur #11, Cologne, Germany (2024\u20132026); Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, The\nWalker Art Center, USA (2024); Endless Exhibition, Hamburger Bahnhof - Nationalgalerie der\nGegenwart, Berlin, Germany (2023); Ant\u00e9futur, Capc \u2013 Mus\u00e9e d\u2019art contemporain de\nBordeaux, France (2023); \u00c9nergies, B\u00e9tonsalon \u2013 centre d\u2019art et de recherche, Paris, France\n(2022); \u00c9nergies, FRAC \u201d\u00cele-de-france, Paris, France (2022); GROW, kaufmann repetto,\nMilan, Italy (2021); Crip Time, Museum MMK fu\u0308r Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main,\nGermany (2021); ALIFI, Metro Pictures, New York (2019); Stepping Stairs, KWInstitute for\nContemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (2018); Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los\nAngeles (2017); MORE, Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany (2015); UP, Museion, Bolzano, Italy\n(2016); Le Grand Balcon, La Biennale de Montr\u00e9al (2016); C-salen, Malm\u00f6 Konsthall,\nSweden (2012); dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany (2012).<\/p>

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Udstillingstekst (forenklet sprog) Judith Hopf Thy \u00c9nergies 29.03.2025 – 01.06.2025 N\u00e5r du tr\u00e6der ind i Judith Hopfs installation Thy \u00c9nergies, m\u00f8der du tre midlertidige v\u00e6gge, der er opsat som et filmset inde i laden til den gamle g\u00e5rd. Sammen danner de et langt rum med et abstrakt “all-over”-v\u00e6gmaleri. Bl\u00e5, grafiske streger skildrer en stiliseret regn. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3908,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"elementor_header_footer","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4342"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4342\/revisions\/4616"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kunsthalthy.dk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}