Joachim Pfeufer

Joachim Pfeufer (* 1935 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ; lives and works in Paris ) is a French architect and conceptual artist of German descent and an artist of the international Fluxus movement.

life and work

Joachim Pfeufer studied from 1952 to 1957 Architecture . Equipped with a Fulbright scholarship, he visited Germany from 1957 to 1958. There he met the architect and archaeologist Herman Haan , who told him about the Dogon in Mali and their “ POI Poi! “- communication told.

In 1960 he moved to Paris. There he met Robert Filliou , Adrienne Larue and Jean Prouvé . Pfeufer worked as an architect and in urban planning . He worked mostly with Shadrach Woods . At the Triennale of Milan in 1968 he took part as an artist. In his spare time he worked as a painter and illustrator. From 1977 to 2003 he was a teacher at the École des Beaux Arts in Nantes .

In the winter of 1963 in Paris , Joachim Pfeufer and his friend, the Fluxus artist Robert Filliou , developed the project " POIPOIDROM ", a linguistically inspired mixture of object, installation and performance that engages a chain of (meaning) questions in dialogue and, if the Poipoi is called, it is broken off and begins again. Starting in 1963, found several POIPOIDROM - happenings and -Performances, including the Center Pompidou in Paris instead. With the " POIPOIDROM " and a " rocket ", Filliou and Pfeufer took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in 1972 in the Individual Mythologies department . Pfeufer has continued the “ Poïpoïdrome ” events since 1990.

Literature and Sources

• Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
• documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

Web links

• Literature by and about Joachim Pfeufer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Materials by and about Joachim Pfeufer in the documenta archive