Hoppek produces an irregular publication called Lavagina, an ironic take on a sex magazine.
Moreover, together with other artists he was invited to redesign the Park Hotel in Copenhagen for the Volkswagen Fox. 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. For the campaign Hoppek created a new set of dolls, using elliptic instead of oval shapes in order to differentiate the new characters from the Bimbo dolls. In 2005 Hoppek was approached by the advertising company DLKW, who wanted to create an advertising campaign for the Opel Corsa based on his own Bimbo dolls. In 2006 Hoppek built a huge architectural structure from cardboard at the Bread & Butter fashion fair in Barcelona, one of his first such constructions and the basis for several similar projects over the following years, like a cardboard church front built for the 2010 edition of the Swab art fair in Barcelona. Hoppek also became part of the ROJO network and collaborated with other Barcelona-based artists, including Miss Van. In 2003, Iguapop hosted his first solo exhibition in Barcelona, called Sexo Extra Ordinario Ahora. There, he established a connection with Iguapop, the art gallery that was becoming the centre of the lowbrow and street art scene in Barcelona. In 2003, Hoppek left Berlin for Barcelona, Spain, which at the time attracted street artists from all over the world. In January 2010 Hoppek created a site-specific mural for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, MACRO Future.
Hoppek paints less graffiti in cities nowadays, mainly due to increased police pressure, and focusses on graffiti in rural areas. Between 19 he was featured in several books about street art by the German writer Bernhard van Treeck. Hoppek later moved to Cologne and later to Berlin, where he established contacts to the local graffiti scene. In 19 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. Hoppek started writing graffiti in 1990, under the name Forty. After being rejected from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Hoppek instead turned to street art. Hoppek studied to be a tracer and successfully escaped the military draft in Germany by dodging the medical examinations. Already at the age of eleven he got his first computer, a Commodore VIC-20, and as teenager he took up photography and videomaking. He grew up in what he describes as a "hippie community", where he tried marijuana before he could walk and frequently skipped school. Boris Hoppek was born in the small village of Kreuztal, Germany, in 1970.
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