Daniel Hopp

Places of transit such as train stations or public squares are sites where social divisions may become particularly visible, for example, Leopoldplatz in Berlin or the area around the Drob Inn, a contact and counselling centre providing drug consumption rooms not far from Hamburg Central Station. Addiction, homelessness and acute survival strategies collide here with urban mobility, shopping, art and culture. Precisely at this crystallisation point, Daniel Hopp’s work sets in. 

At the centre of his first institutional solo exhibition is the multi-part film installation Fictional Healing. In this work, the artist questions stigmatizing narratives associated with addiction and introduces images of care that open up new scope for action.