More than 82 million people, by the end of 2020, had been forcibly displaced from their countries due to persecution, conflict, violence or human rights violations, according to UNHCR. One in 95 people in the world have been forced to flee their homes due to war or discrimination. The artist Boris Hoppek (Berlin, 1970) has been working around these terrible figures for years. Immigration and racism are an inseparable part of his work, which he analyzes from works that range from site-specific to illustration, photography or collage. In this exhibition he returns to use his famous character Bimbo, a black figure with red lips, his most recognizable icon, to tell this story of social criticism and denunciation.
Boris Hoppek kicked off his career in the 1990s by introducing figurative elements to the graffiti scene, artistic discipline he has continued working in, with a decontextualization of the iconographic figures that made him famous. He has created a site-specific for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome (MACRO Future), and made individually and collectively exhibitions in galleries such as Diesel Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), Room 26 (Rome, Italy), Iguapop Gallery (Barcelona, Spain), Jonathan LeVine (New York, USA) or Magma Gallery (Manchester, UK), and many others.
