Patricia Ines Hoeppe is an artistic researcher, conceptionist and producer of artistic social situations. Her work is grounded in identity and community building, social and individual constructioning across diverse social environments, cultures and contexts. She develops and realizes projects in order to seek for social solutions by arts. Her work focuses on investigations of identity within the social context. For this she uses performance art and installations as both seismograph and tuner, raising consciousness of social situations and experimenting with responses by placing the individual and the social situation in a good relation and perspective to each other.
In her work Patricia includes passengers, participants and performers and collaborates in many projects with sites and venues, galleries, socially engaged and art institutes and even whole cities (s. performed city) across Germany and internationally. Her projects have been financed by her collaborators or by institutes like DAAD. Patricia’s projects were shown e.g. in Sydney Biennale 2016, Vivid Festival Sydney 2016, Fotoweek Duesseldorf 2016, Art Fair Cologne, Artspace Sydney/ Australia, Haus der Universität Düsseldorf, NRW Forum, Unicef Hamburg, Medecins Sans Frontiers Berlin, Museo Contamporena Santiago de Compostela/ Spain, Italian Embassy / Istituto Culturale Berlin, Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich/ Switzerland.
Patricia graduated from the Berlin University of Fine Arts with a Master degree and Meisterschülertitel from Rebecca Horn and with a diploma in communications-design (class of Maria Vedder). She obtained a diploma in art therapy (master class of Katharina Gutknecht) at Artaban College of Art Therapy Berlin, as well as a diploma in physiotherapy and various qualifications in psychomotorics, psychology and art pedagogy. She worked in all of the above fields. Since 2012 she works as a professor for intermedia art at the Frankfurt University of Applied sciences. In the summer term of 2016 Patricia was Guest professor at The University of Sydney/ Department of Performance Studies. She conceptualized the Master’s program ‘Performative in Social Fields” and played a key role in conceiving and developing it.
.[mensch macht raum] Kulturbrauerei Berlin 5/2023, [Perform Culture: I-Can-Breathe, Doing Climate, Du-hast-die-Wahl, 9/11-In-Be-Tween Terror] Salonkultur Caffee Schätzchen Berlin 2021, [Performance Parcours Berlin] Performative CityWalks 2020 Berlin, [Perform Europe!] MOK-Museum für Kommunikation Frankfurt am Main 3/2018, [Performance Parcours Frankfurt 2018] Orangerie/ Frankfurt am Main 5/2018, [Partizipative Siedlungsforschung] Performative Achitectur als Citizn Sciences, FRA UAS 2018, [Stand Ups] City of Sydney 6/2016, [To be (not) part] Artspace/ Sydney Biennale 2016, [The Big Arrival] participative performative project for cultural integration with refugees and citizens, Frankfurt a. M., 2015-2016 , [Shooting at Borders] Haus der Universität Düsseldorf/ Fotoweek Düsseldorf 2016, [Democratic Zone] Berlin/ Frankfurt a. M. 2016- 2015, [Performed City] Rhein–Main–Zone Germany, 2014-2012, [Sitting Lines of Flux] KiT Düsseldorf 2012, [kriech + frieden] Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich/ Switzerland 1/2008, [Übungsparcours Kriegskriechen] Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich/ Switzerland 1/2008, [sky touched ground- ground touched sky] Art Cologne 2006, [Shootings] World Cup/ Kulturbrauerei 2006, Kulturbrauerei Berlin, [The Homeless] Spring Art Tower/ Los Angeles 2005, [The Crawlings] OCMA New Port Beach, USA 2005, [Shooting at the German Border] Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin 2005, [Ciao Bella] Italian Embassy Berlin/ Istituto Culturale Berlin 2004, [Shooting at the Mexican Border] Art Cologne 2003, [Fleeing from the Flood] art-project for the Tsunami victim in cooperation with Medecins Sans Frontiers and UNICEF, Lichtwerke Hamburg 2003, [Feindbilder/ The Image of the Enemy] art project with Iraqi refugee kids, Atelier am Kreuzberg/ Berlin 2003, [2-Tausend-m-Lauf] Movie Explosion V, Filmfestival Berlin 2003, [Sweeping the Pilgrims Path II] New York City 2001, [Fallings] Galerie Hengevoss-Jensen/ Hamburg 2001, [Performed Mandala] Museo Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela/ Spanien 2000, [Sweeping the Pilgrims Path I] 2000 year Jubilee of Christianity, Museo Centro de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela/ Spain 2000, [Bishin zum Rutschen auf den Knien] Berlins City Halls 1999, [Publikumsverkehr] and [Paar-Zerstrahlung] performance for participants Berlin 1998
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©PERFORMED CITY is a performance based community work with a whole city. In 2012-2014 Patricia Hoeppe developed with ©PERFORMED CITY a new performative methodology for comprehending and forming integration processes in a democratic city. The goal is to enable citizens by these methods to find independently a good position for themselves, in the city and within the entire society. To position oneself and to find one’s place seem to be the questions for good social togetherness. By settling and negotiating democratic values and by creating possibilities and actions the citizens are invited to create an expression of the own cultural participation to form their own cultural integration.
©PERFORM EUROPE! (from 2018 to today) was her call for an artistic engagement with one’s own stance and the performative exploration of Europe. Visitors, together with Prof. Patricia Ines Hoeppe and her students from the Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, created an emotional map of Europe. The graphical and collaged markings revealed a fundamental pattern of European themes, represented personal viewpoints, and initiated dialogue as an artistic approach to citizen participation.
© CITY SCORING (from 2015 to today) is her developed performative format to capture emotional states on current societal issues in urban atmospheres by citizen and passengers– to constitute an artistic solution. Overlapping layers of experience tell site-specific stories and invite the creation of context-specific answers. Through participatory engagement a dynamic pool of three lines of action (see above) is created.
©THE BIG ARRIVAL is a work-in-progress project/ artistic research from Patricia Ines Hoeppe from 2015 to today. The topic is the arrival of more than 1 million refugees in Germany and the individual and social situations related to this. Performers and participants are German citizens and refugees. In the realm of performative possibilities and actions democratic values are settled and negotiated by one’s personal position, in order to find a good cultural integration of diversity. Also included is the attempt to grasp and to work with suffering and trauma, manifested by situations of flight, which exist in the collective memory of older Europeans and are becoming more and more a worldwide experience.
@PERFORMATIVE CULTUR SALONS (since 2021). Culture forms through action. The concept of so-called Cultural Performances refers to the immediate connections between active cultural and art forms and social change. Her Performative Cultur Salon is a citizen-driven format inspired by the reactivated salon culture from the 1920s in Berlin. Apart from exchanging and capturing emotional states, it serves the constitution of artistic solutions to societal challenges, f.e.: 9/11_ In Be-Twins- Terror, Doing Climate, I-Can-Breathe.
©mensch macht raum. Public Space is seen as a pointer to societies. In democratic societies, public space, as a global social and cultural space, provides educational and formative structure. But how do dictatorships use public space, how do they set and establish power? How do mechanisms of actions of democratic societies differ? In her Summer University Patricia and her international students dealed with the power practices of dictatorial penetration of Nazi-architecture in Berlin into all areas of life. “We perceived the dictatorial atmospheres and their effects with our bodies. We experimented with artistic positions: to set democratic atmospheres by our bodies using performing arts methodes of dance, sounds, moving + visual arts.”