Endy Hupperich

Endy Hupperich (born 1967 in Kaufbeuren) comes from the tradition of gestural painting without objects, which was strongly represented in Munich in the 1960s by the Spur group, to which his teacher Helmut Sturm belonged. A wildly moving gesture combined with a strong, painterly ductus therefore determines his early works. For his more recent works, Hupperich draws from the pictorial cosmos of the present. The artist finds his motifs in the world of advertising and pop culture, in the everyday, the picturesque, the trivial. His image combinations satirise the cultural and media image flood, our ideas and the associated clichés. In doing so, he mostly works according to the collage principle. Playfully, new motifs emerge from set pieces, which seem to have sprung from a surreal dream world.

Hupperich’s pictorial worlds are, at first glance, full of subtle wit, emotion, and dynamism. They know no boundaries, no hierarchies, no valuations. Everything mixes, everything seems possible. Only on closer inspection does one realise that the lightness at the core is a serious reflection on images, and an offer to the viewer to ponder their meaning for himself, to make new references, to find new content. 

As a visiting professor of painting and drawing, Endy Hupperich taught at the Escuela Nacional de las Artes in Mexico City and had teaching assignments in Augsburg, Bad Reichenhall and Vienna.