The artist (painter and sculptor ) Andreas Kopp was born in 1959 in Amsterdam. He studied Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf at the early age of seventeen and was awarded with the Ernst-Barlach-Price in 1992.
Since his first one-person show (The Rembrandt-Lounge, 1991), which was presented at the Goethe-Institut Rotterdam and the Klaus Littmann Gallery in Basel, the art of Andreas Kopp is shown in numerous group and one-person shows all over Europe and Japan, gaining massive recognition and advancements. Trademark of his multilayered work is the use of metal as basis of his paintings and installations, sometimes with cuts and corroded engravings. Due to its plasticity the metal ground supports Kopp's balance of spatiality and surface. This understanding for spacious aspects of art leaded him to several public and private commissions. Under more he designed the interior glass-facades for Europe's biggest event-dome, the Cologne-Arena (now Lanxess Arena), a commission followed by the placement of five huge artpieces in the main hall of neighboring new Cologne city hall. Both buildings were designed by internationally recognized and Pritzker-Prize awarded Böhm Architects, Cologne.
In 2010 Andreas Kopp´s redesign of the neogothic chapel at St. Joseph´s Hospital in Oberhausen (Ruhr-aerea) has been opened to public access. By the end of 2011 a 10 m high, illuminated "Marker Tree" – sculpture was launched in Dublin, landmarking the city´s south gate motorway at Tallaght.
Out of one of his most recent monumental work complex is titled “Tomb of the unknown Broker", an over thousand-piece-counting series of small metal sheets dealing with the leaf-gilded aspects of a digitally linked up world, has been presented in a private museum in Zürich and at the Federal Association of German Banks, Berlin, which now purchased wide parts of the "broker series" for their permanent collection.
For 2013 several international shows are scheduled, under more an participating in shows (at present) at Vernon Gallery in Prag, the Riihisaari / Savonlinna Provincial Museum, Finland, and Projektraum Galerie Petra Stilper in Frankfurt / M. Taking part in the temporary project “Skultur II” by Littmann Kulturprojekte he realised a plein-air mobilé, spanning over more than 6 metres, in the public space of Basel Switzerland, together with his fellow artists as Keith Haring, Per Kirkeby, Markus Lüpertz, César and more.
Most recently he has been appointed as dean of the newly founded St. Moritz art academy, an international temporary art school starting in summer 2013.
2014 Andreas Kopp won the competition for both two sculptures in public space of Bad Wildungen / Germany; their realization is scheduled for spring 2015. In 2015 he will also take part in the Selfie! Show at the Museum of New Art in Detroit.
Spending most of his life in cities like Amsterdam, Hamburg, the Hague, Berlin and Cologne the painter and sculptor Andreas Kopp now lives in an idyllic rural setting in eastern Westfalia in the midst of Germany.
