at the opening PLEASURE PARK, TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION Los Angeles 2017 courtesy The Advocate magazine

at the opening PLEASURE PARK, TOM OF FINLAND FOUNDATION Los Angeles 2017 courtesy The Advocate magazine

I was born on June 30, 1955 in Freiburg, West Germany where I attended the Humanistic High School.
I studied Art, Cultural Anthropology and Religious History in Freiburg, West Germany, San Francisco, California and Bremen, West Germany where I graduated (with honors).
As Visual Artist I worked in San Francisco, California and Paris, France (Atelier Dedalo Montali) and as an Art Therapist in Forensic Institutions in San Francisco and West Berlin.
Between 2005 and 2015 I was closely affiliated with the international City of Auroville, South India.
Currently I live and work as a Visual Artist, Editor and Curator in Berlin, Casoli/Tuscany, and Los Angeles.
Since 2019 I am married with my lontime partner Frank Tepel alias Fox.
My sister is the artist Marianne Hopf.

Two books of my photography: "Subversiv", 2004; "Amore", 2006 and my art book "Trickster", 2013 were published by konkursbuch Verlag Claudia Gehrke, Tübingen, Germany. Together with the Russian Photographer Fedya Ili I am the editor of the art anthology
"Mein schwules Auge / My gay Eye" 3 - 19, 2005 - 2022 for the same publisher.

ARTIST RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
1988, 1989
Civitella d' Agliano, Umbria, Italy (by the Kunstfonds, Bonn)
1992, 1994
Istanbul Studio Grant, Istanbul, Turkey (by the Senate of Berlin)
1995
Käthe Dorsch Foundation, Berlin, Germany
1995
Delfina Studio Grant, New York, USA (by Delfina Foundation, Madrid)
2005
Grand Price, Art@Large, New York
2006
Elledorado e.V., Berlin, Germany
2017, 2018, 2020, and 2022
Tom of Finland Foundation, Los Angeles, USA