Paul Pozozza Museum
The Paul Pozozza Museum (PPM) is an artist association founded in Düsseldorf in 1984 .
founding
The PPM was founded in 1984 by the Düsseldorf artists Hilmar Boehle , Marcel Hardung , Robert Knuth and Julia Lohmann and opened with an exhibition in Düsseldorf at Fürstenwall 204 on May 5, 1984. The Paul Pozozza Museum is not an actual museum in the traditional sense. Rather, it is an artist association that has carried out independent artistic projects under the pseudonym PPM. The group of four founding members was finally completed by Adolphe Lechtenberg . From around 1991 Robert Knuth and Hilmar Boehle were no longer involved. They continued to work together on experimental exhibition projects, but no longer under the name Paul Pozozza Museum.
After the opening exhibition, there were ten more exhibitions in the rooms at Fürstenwall, each of which was performed by at least two artists, including guests who were not members of the PPM.
In addition to the Fürstenwall, the casemates at the lower Rheinwerft were also the location for two further exhibitions, each of which was attended by numerous artists from different countries.
The new building, on the other hand, which is mentioned in numerous texts, did not exist, but the idea of the new building project was of great importance in exhibitions and in publications of the Paul Pozozza Museum. There are several new building models that were developed in cooperation by two artists or, in the case of Neubau V, by three artists.
New building I was created in collaboration between Julia Lohmann and Wasa Marjanov. The second model, entitled New Building II - the bridge is by Marcel Hardung and Oveis Saheb. The third model is a joint effort by Adolphe Lechtenberg and Hilmar Boehle and has the title Neubau III - Visa 1-3 . These three new building models are shown and documented with descriptions in the catalog book Studies on Paul Pozozza Research. Volume I . This catalog book contains a text by Dr. Ralf Bauer on the new models included. The catalog was published in 1989 on the occasion of an exhibition at the Paul Pozozza Museum at two locations in Hanover (in the Barz Gallery and in the Hanover Ice Factory). The title of the exhibition at that time was: Paul Pozozza Museum shows: The new building. There can only be one . There is another new building model , Neubau V , which was created in 1993 by Marcel Hardung, Adolphe Lechtenberg and Julia Lohmann as a collaborative effort. This model was produced as part of a competition by the city of Düsseldorf to design the banks of the Rhine with works of art. Although this model was not implemented as a building later, the idea of realizing the museum as a concrete building was present. Neubau V is depicted in the book Düsseldorfer Avantgarden , which was published in 1995 by Richter Verlag Düsseldorf.
Goals of the PPM
With reference to a collector, Paul Pozozza, who was ostensibly looking for innovative ways to show his existing African collection and, above all, modern art, a staged myth arose concerning the person and museum of Pozozza, which was an essential part of the idea of the PPM. Pozozza's construction, which is always continued, always speculative, fills numerous literary contributions that accompanied the actual exhibitions within the framework of the PPM.
The idea of the artist group PPM was to ironically encounter the established form of the art business. With reference to the traditional museum form, which was caricatured by the fiction of a museum, the artists formulated their understanding of a new form of presentation corresponding to modern art. The PPM was the expression of a modern understanding of art in search of suitable possibilities for the free implementation and presentation of artistic ideas.
Exhibitions
- 1984 Foundation of the Paul Pozozza Museum, Düsseldorf, Fürstenwall 204
- 1984 Kasematte XX, Düsseldorf
- 1986 KD II casemate, Düsseldorf
- 1986/7 Galerie waschSalon, Frankfurt
- 1987 PPM, AO-Kunstraum Hamburg
- 1989 Paul Pozozza Museum shows: The new building. There can only be one, Galerie Barz and Eisfabrik Hannover
- 1989 Utopies 89 - L'Europe des Créateurs, Grand Palais, Paris (Presentation of the three new building models as part of an exhibition of utopian models in architecture and art: “New Building I” by Wasa Marjanov and Julia Lohmann; “New Building II” by Marcel Hardung and Oveis Saheb; "New Building III - Visa" by Hilmar Boehle and Adolphe Lechtenberg)
- 1991 Action by Adolphe Lechtenberg laid six foundation stones for the Paul Pozozza Museum in Latin America (in Cabo San Lucas and Acapulco, Mexico; Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, Panama Canal, Aruba, Grand Cayman)
- 1995 100 years of the Paul Pozozza Museum , Thomas Taubert exhibition space, Düsseldorf
- 1996 PPM in cooperation with the NBK Berlin
- 1997 Paul Pozozza Museum Kunstverein Lingen
- 1997/99 First artist devotional items shop with C. Brunetti, Pozzo Pozozza Berlin
- 1999 Hans-Peter Porzner . The Museum of Modern Art Munich project . The Paul Pozozza Museum in cooperation with the Museum of Modern Art Munich. Warhol meets Noland . 1952-1980-1997 , NBK Berlin
- 2001 AT THREE FULL PROGRAM (with Lars and Renate Brandt), John Doe and the Paul Pozozza Museum, Düsseldorf
literature
- Paul Pozozza Museum. Fürstenwall 204, published by Paul Pozozza Museum, Düsseldorf 1984.
- Paul Pozozza Museum. Kasematte KD-2, published by Paul Pozozza Museum, Düsseldorf 1986.
- Paul Pozozza Museum. The new building - scale is the idea, published by Paul Pozozza Museum und Druckerei Heinrich Winterscheidt, Düsseldorf 1988.
- Studies on Paul Pozozza research. Volume I , published by Eisfabrik Hannover and Paul Pozozza Museum, Düsseldorf 1989