Boris Hoppek

His artistic roots lie in graffiti, but today his work spans painting, photography, video, sculpture and installation art.

He is the creator of The C'Mons, a fictional rock band at the centre of a viral marketing campaign for the fourth-generation Opel Corsa car.

In 1995 and 1996 he started exhibiting his work in cafés, a bank and the university library in the small town of Siegen, where he was living at the time.

In January 2010 Hoppek created a site-specific mural for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, MACRO Future.

[1] The result are The C'Mons, Hoppek's fictional rock band that has been featured Europe-wide in TV, online and print ads since 2006.

It started out as a catalogue for a 2007 exhibition at Heliumcowboy artspace in Hamburg, and has since evolved into a magazine featuring principally (but not exclusively) his own visual work and writing by others.

In 2007 the town of Cádiz, in Andalusia, invited Hoppek to take over the Baluarte de la Candelaria cultural centre, located in an old fortress, for an exhibition.