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The unbounded population multi-objective covariance matrix adaptation evolution strategy~(UP-MO-CMA-ES) aims at maximizing the total hypervolume covered by all evaluated points. It adds all non-dominated solutions found to its population and employs Gaussian mutations with adaptive covariance matrices to also solve ill-conditioned problems. A novel recombination operator adapts the covariance matrices to point along the Pareto front. The UP-MO-CMA-ES is combined with a parallel exploration strategy and empirically evaluated on the bi-objective BBOB-biobj benchmark problems. Results show that the algorithm can reliably solve ill-conditioned problems as well as weakly-structured problems. However, it is less suited for the rugged multi-modal objective functions in the benchmark.