Pascal Decker

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Pascal Decker (born August 17, 1970 in Grevenbroich ) is a German lawyer, board member and cultural manager. From 2014 to 2018 he was executive director of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation in Berlin. Since August 2018 he has been Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of artnet AG and since 2015 a member of the Culture Committee at the VBKI .

Life

After graduating from the Erasmus-Gymnasium Grevenbroich , Decker studied law at the Free University of Berlin between 1991 and 1997 with stations in Edinburgh and Lyon. In 1998 he passed the first state examination in law. In 2001, he took the second state examination at the Berlin Higher Regional Court. From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a lawyer at Boehmert & Boehmert in Berlin before founding a law firm specializing in art and cultural law in 2004. He received his doctorate at the Bucerius Law School in Hamburg with Michael Fehling . He has been a lecturer in copyright and art law at the Berlin University of the Arts since 2014 . His brother is the Leipzig social psychologist Oliver Decker . Decker lives with his family in Berlin. He's a Roman Catholic.

Act

Hitler salute process

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As one of several defense lawyers, Decker was involved in the criminal case against the artist Jonathan Meese in 2013 . In view of the media attention, this is one of the most important art law suits of the last decades. In its academic analysis, the process made an important contribution to questions of art law, the judicial recognition of new art forms and the public evaluation of visual arts.

Meese's appearance with a Hitler salute in Kassel at the “megalomania in the art world” event held in the run-up to dOCUMENTA (13) by the news magazine Der Spiegel led in 2013 to legal proceedings for violating Section 86a of the Criminal Code . The ruling Kassel District Court ruled that Meese's appearance at the event should be seen as an artistic performance.

The public prosecutor's office in Munich closed another case on May 5, 2015 because of the use of symbols of unconstitutional organizations . Meese was reported in 2014 because he raised his hand several times in the Hitler salute on November 21st during the performance "Dictatorship of Art" at the Munich Literature Festival .

In 2015, criminal proceedings initiated against the artist for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations were discontinued by the Munich public prosecutor. This was preceded by an advertisement from 2014 because on November 21st he raised his hand several times in the Hitler salute during the performance “Dictatorship of Art” at the Munich Literature Festival (see also Jonathan Meese ).

Brandenburg Gate Foundation

Decker has shaped the work of the Brandenburg Gate Foundation since 2006 as a board member alongside the later Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters , who was spokesperson for the Berliner Sparkasse Cultural Foundation until 2013. From 2014 he was the managing director of the foundation until he left in 2018. During his term of office, he initiated numerous formats that continue to shape the foundation's work today, such as the residents of Pariser Platz, the exhibition series “in the Atelier Liebermann” and that of the Kulturstiftung of the federal states with the “Future Prize for Cultural Education - Der Olymp”, an educational project “Max - Artists in Residence at Elementary Schools”. The series of events "Kultursalon" and - with the VBKI - the capital city culture talk followed in cooperation with the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft , among others .

Art market and engagement

As an art sponsor, Decker has been committed to Berlin as an art market location for over 15 years. As chairman of KW Freunde eV , he was committed from 2008 to 2014 to the mediation and presentation of contemporary art in the German capital. From 2008 to 2010 Decker was chairman of the supervisory board of Cube Kunsthalle gGmbH, the supporting company of the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin. The Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin was a civil society project to promote contemporary art. Until 2016, the law firm dtb was, alongside Allianz, a media partner of the art market magazine ART VALUE - Positions on the Value of Art, until the latter continued the media partnership alone. In addition, Decker initiated the art market forum ART together with Sebastian Pflum . TALKING BUSINESS. Following the debate on the amended Cultural Property Protection Act, Decker acts as a mediator and pleads for a constructive dialogue between the art market and cultural policy. In the debate about the reintroduction of the wealth tax, he suggested that the effects on the art market and thus the collecting culture in Germany should also be taken into account. In July 2020, the Handelsblatt reported on the burden on the art trade due to the amendment to the Money Laundering Act. In the course of the amendment process, Decker had previously worked with the BVDG u. a. brought into the debate for consideration of the special market characteristics.

Memberships (excerpt)

  • Institute for Art and Law (IfKUR) eV
  • German Association for Commercial Legal Protection and Copyright (GRUR)
  • Board of Trustees of the Radial Foundation
  • Corporate Collecting (ACC) working group in the culture group of the German economy
  • Harry Graf Kessler Society

Fonts (excerpt)

  • Program quotas for music on radio. The legislature in the field of tension between cultural mandate and freedom of broadcasting, dissertation, Hamburg 2005, Vistas Medien Verlag Berlin 2007.
  • The interview as performance art, KUR 2014, pp. 15 - 19 (together with Prof. Wolfgang Ullrich).

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ https://dtb.eu/pascal-decker/
  2. ↑ Hitler salute is considered a work of art. Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 5, 2015, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  3. ^ Acquittal for artist Jonathan Meese. Der Spiegel , August 4, 2013, accessed on February 25, 2019 .
  4. ^ Artist Jonathan Meese acquitted after the Nazi salute. Zeit Online , August 14, 2013, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jonathan Meese: acquittal for artists after Hitler salute. faz , August 14, 2013, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ AG Kassel, NJW 2014, pp. 801–803 (with note from Ilgner and Wargalla); Hufen, JuS 2014, pp. 855-857; Muckel, JA 2014, pp. 479-480
  7. ↑ The taboo breakers - how moral should art be? | Knowledge | SWR2. May 9, 2018, accessed March 5, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Tim Ackermann: Scandal artist: Jonathan Meese was allowed to show Hitler salute . January 2, 2014 ( welt.de [accessed March 5, 2019]).
  9. ^ AG Kassel, judgment of August 14, 2013 - 1614 Js 30173/12 - 240 Cs. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Pascal Decker leaves the Brandenburg Gate Foundation. June 4, 2018, accessed February 25, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Home - Pariser Platz Neighboring Community. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Sewing Patterns of the World. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Awarded: Ateliers in elementary schools. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  14. ↑ "Kultursalon" https://stiftungbrandenburgertor.de/aktuell/kultursalon-hauptsache_kultur/
  15. ↑ Capital city culture talk | Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists - VBKI. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  16. ↑ KW friends. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Angela Rosenberg: Simon Starling: under Lime, Cologne 2009
  18. ^ Thomas Vitzthum: Art: Quite temporary - this Berlin art gallery . June 6, 2008 ( welt.de [accessed March 5, 2019]).
  19. ↑ The law firm dtb, together with Allianz Versicherung, is a cooperation partner of Welther Verlag GmbH http://www.art-value.de/de/rueckschau9.html
  20. ↑ media partner of art value - Retrieved on July 7, 2019 http://www.art-value.de/de/partner.html
  21. ↑ Forum | Art. Talking Business. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  22. ^ Art Talking Business - Berlin Art Market. In: Foundation Brandenburg Gate. Retrieved March 5, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Money Laundering Act: “Your ID, please!” - In future, art dealers will have to prove the identity of their customers. Retrieved July 24, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Deutschlandfunk - Culture Today. Accessed September 4, 2019 (German).
  25. ↑ Christiane Fricke: Prevent money laundering with the app . In: Handelsblatt . No. 136 , p. 59 .
  26. ↑ File PDF. Retrieved July 20, 2020 .
  27. ↑ Julia Voss: Do we need stricter laws against money laundering? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . June 30, 2019.
  28. ↑ TIAMSA in the Press. In: The International Art Market Studies Association. January 10, 2018, accessed July 20, 2020 (UK English).
personal data
SURNAME Decker, Pascal
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, supervisory board and cultural manager
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Grevenbroich