Raymond
Hoepflinger

Raymond Hoepflinger

(b. 1950)

Raymond Hoepflinger is a Swiss conceptual artist and filmmaker whose work operates at the profound intersection of time, human ritual, and data compilation. For over five decades, Hoepflinger has quietly maintained a rigorous, daily artistic practice that transforms the ordinary parameters of biological necessity and domestic life into an unprecedented historical archive of human existence.

Deeply informed by his background in cinema and sequential framing, Hoepflinger treats time itself as his primary medium. His work relies on strict, self-imposed, lifelong systems of documentation—such as recording every item of daily physical consumption since 1975 or capturing a family constellation at exact monthly intervals since 1981. By merging the clinical objectivity of archival statistics with the vulnerable, raw realities of aging, relationship transitions, and material accumulation, his lifelong bodies of work offer a monumental sociological and psychological study on the quiet persistence of daily life.

Hoepflinger lives and continues his daily durational practices in Switzerland, where his vast physical and digital archives are preserved.