Cozy Pièro

Cozy Pièro-Conscience , b. Christina Conscience (born June 13, 1937 in Cologne ) is a German painter, sculptor , installation and video artist . She lives and works in Munich and Croatia .

life and work

Cozy Pièro left her parents' home at the age of 14 to study art. She financed her studies herself. From 1952 to 1955 she was a guest student at the Cologne School of Applied Arts . Until 1957 she studied at the Royal Belgian Academy in Brussels . With the birth of the children, she took a career break. In 1980 she resumed artistic work. From 1982 she was represented by the Dany Keller Gallery in Munich. She took part in a joint exhibition at the Villa Stuck in Munich. This was followed by a solo exhibition in the Lothringer13 . In 1988 she designed the Brudermühlstraße subway station in Munich. Further exhibitions at home and abroad followed.

Cozy Pièro had the pub " Bei Cozy" in Munich from 1961 to 1980 : "Every two months there was a big party, word got around more and more and then more and more artist people came, and the gays came, and the straight couples came, lesbians came - so a colorful mix. That was new in Munich, that wasn't the case at the time, that there was such a mixture of all sorts of existences. ... I never, never wanted a purely women's bar, or even a men's bar - that's exactly what I didn't want, I always wanted people to come together and tolerate each other, that was very important to me. "The bar" Bei Cozy " was opened on 21./ 22nd August 2015 reactivated as "Moby Dyke — A temporary lesbian bar in Munich" . Cozy Pièro performed in the company of Meike Illig.

Since 1995 she has been based in the Städtisches Atelierhaus Dachauerstraße in Munich and a member of the association of the same name. In 2012, all artistic works stored here were taken over by the Schweisfurth Foundation Munich.

Project funding and prizes

1980 Culture Department of the City of Munich - Project funding for the "Year of the Child", Olympia-Park Munich
1985 Award of the City of Munich
1986 Culture Department of the City of Munich - Exhibition project in the main customs office in Munich I, concept and idea by C. Pièro
1989 Beckforum Munich
1989 Cultural Department of the City of Munich - Exhibition project in the main customs office in Munich II
1991 Culture Department of the City of Munich and Beckforum - Exhibition project in the main customs office in Munich III
1992 cultural advisor for the city of Munich - exhibition project i. Main Customs Office Munich IV

Purchases

Bavarian State Painting Collection , Munich
Culture Department of the City of Munich
Schweisfurth Foundation, Munich
Dany Keller Gallery, Munich
Artothek, Munich
Beck Forum, Munich

Web links

Cozy Pièro website
Cozy Pièro at kuenstlerinbayern.de

Individual evidence

^ Pièro, Cozy. In: General Artist Lexicon. KG Saur. Retrieved August 8, 2015.
^ Cozy Pièro: Cozy Pièro - Modern painting. The painter Cozy Pièro presents her abstract works of art and objects in this virtual art gallery. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .
↑ Schäfer, Christine .: Between post-war frustration and the desire for new beginnings: lesbian life in Munich in the 1950s to 1970s; seven biographies . Forum Homosexuality, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-935227-17-9 .
^ Bar "At Cozy" 1961–1980 - Lothringer13_Florida. Accessed April 7, 2018 (German).
↑ Reference to the opening and closing of "Moby Dyke": archive . Announcement of the opening: MOBY DYKE - a temporary lesbian bar in Munich | OPENING . Announcement of closure: MOBY DYKE - a temporary lesbian bar in Munich | Closing | COZY PIÈRO LIVE ; all in: Florida , accessed February 6, 2019.
↑ REVIEW: Talk and Film Screening with Richard John Jones. In: Florida . August 16, 2015, accessed on February 6, 2019 (performance by Cozy Pièro on the occasion of the “temporary lesbian bar”).

personal data
SURNAME	Pièro, Cozy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Piero-Conscience, Cozy; Conscience, Christina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German painter, sculptor, installation and video artist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cologne

[1] Pièro, Cozy. In: General Artist Lexicon. KG Saur. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

[2] Cozy Pièro: Cozy Pièro - Modern painting. The painter Cozy Pièro presents her abstract works of art and objects in this virtual art gallery. Retrieved April 7, 2018 .

[3] Schäfer, Christine .: Between post-war frustration and the desire for new beginnings: lesbian life in Munich in the 1950s to 1970s; seven biographies . Forum Homosexuality, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-935227-17-9 .

[4] Bar "At Cozy" 1961–1980 - Lothringer13_Florida. Accessed April 7, 2018 (German).

[5] Reference to the opening and closing of "Moby Dyke": archive . Announcement of the opening: MOBY DYKE - a temporary lesbian bar in Munich | OPENING . Announcement of closure: MOBY DYKE - a temporary lesbian bar in Munich | Closing | COZY PIÈRO LIVE ; all in: Florida , accessed February 6, 2019.

[6] REVIEW: Talk and Film Screening with Richard John Jones. In: Florida . August 16, 2015, accessed on February 6, 2019 (performance by Cozy Pièro on the occasion of the “temporary lesbian bar”).