Marianne Pitzen

Marianne Pitzen (2008)

Marianne Pitzen (born May 29, 1948 in Stuttgart ) is a German artist and museum director. In 1981 she founded the Women's Museum in Bonn .

Life

Marianne Pitzen held her first own exhibition in 1969. Three years later she founded the gallery "Circulus", in 1974 together with her husband Horst Pitzen the magazine "Circular". During this time the group “women form their city” and “woman + futura” was created. Traveling exhibitions of her went u. a. to Zurich (Le Corbusier House), Innsbruck (Krinzinger Gallery), Darmstadt (TH, Prof. Behnisch).

In 1981 she founded the world's first women's museum in Bonn . Today she is still responsible for the conception and organization of the house. Marianne Pitzen is a member of the artist group "zart & zackig".

Art-political actions in public space

• "Pro Chancellor" (1997)
• Handbag campaign in NY ( Metropolitan , Museum of Modern Art , Guggenheim , Whitney Museum ) (1997)
• "Head up high" action on June 30th. for Documenta 11 , Kassel (2002)

Exhibitions (selection)

Solo exhibitions in all known women's galleries (in Vienna, Berlin and the Ruhr area)

• 1991 in the Karl Ernst Osthaus-Museum , Hagen
• 1992 Zwickau City Museum
• 1994 City Gallery at the fish market, Erfurt
• 1998 City Museum Bonn
• 1999 Art Center, Ulan Bator
• 1999 Salzstadel of the city of Regensburg
• 2001 Galerie Futura, Berlin
• 2001/02 Kunsttreff Faulturm, large sewage treatment plant in Cologne
• 2008 MP 60, Women's Museum Bonn

honors and awards

• 1998 Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1991 Woman of the Month, WDR 1

Publications (selection)

• The Rationale II: Constructive, Concrete Art , Bonn 2008.
• Paula: Homage to Paula Modersohn-Becker , Bonn 2008.
• with Kathrin Wallat (ed.): 22nd art fair in the Women's Museum with the award of the Valentine Rothe Prize . Verlag Frauenmuseum, Bonn 2012, ISBN 978-3-940482-57-0 .

literature

• Michael Fehr, Annette Kuhn: Marianne Pitzen's snail shell . Cologne (exhib. Cat. Hagen) 1990.
• Tobias Gerstner: Program and provocation . In: Kunstforum 117, 1992, pp. 260–264.
• Heide Göttner-Abendroth (Ed.): Society in Balance. Gender, equality, consensus, culture in matrilineal, matrifocal, matriarchal societies. Documentation of the 1st World Congress for Matriarchy Research 2003 in Luxembourg . International Academy HAGIA, Winzer (Niederbayern) 2006, ISBN 3-17-018603-5 , p. 284 ff.

Web links

• Literature by and about Marianne Pitzen in the catalog of the German National Library .
• Marianne Pitzen In: tender & zaggy studio community.