Water and electricity have already been turned off. The buildings will soon be demolished. The art project of the association “Buntheim” on Puchheim’s Alois-Harbeck-Platz ended with an auction. To the delight of the organizers, it was very successful. A good 30 interested parties had gathered in the rooms of the former Johanniter crèche “Himmelzeit” and bid heavily for the 19 exhibits. “Great,” enthuses Buntheim activist Mehmet Ismail Birinci, “15 of the 19 pictures and art objects were auctioned off.” Exactly 1545 euros went to the children’s protection association in Fürstenfeldbruck, as the 16 exhibiting artists had donated their exhibits to a good cause.
The artists were able to present their exhibits in the beautiful rooms of “Himmelzeit” for two weeks until the auction closed the exhibition. The purchasers did not only come from Puchheim. “I had to start first,” says a woman who came from Friedberg and bought the painting “Everything Crap” by Rosanna Schumacher for a hundred euros. “No time, no desire” continued Schumacher up to “Everything crap”. “These complaints from all depressives,” says the woman from Friedberg, “appeared to appeal to me.” Sascha Mürken came from Munich to bid on a picture by Matthias Edlinger, a Munich artist and filmmaker. “I’ve been following the artist for a long time,” he says and is successful. Mürken increases the starting bid of 190 euros for the small collage “Stars on Cardboard” by ten euros and wins the bid.
A buyer is also found for a heavy metal door
Then a metal door sprayed with somber acrylic paint is up for auction. “Have fun with the transport,” Bundheim organizer Matt Wiegele warns the buyer beforehand. The artist, who only calls himself Discop, has sprayed on a policeman in full gear with a head that is a large camera. The policeman is holding a blue balloon in his hand. The auction starts at 25 euros and goes up to 100 euros in increments of ten. Marta Zientkowska-Schulz, chairwoman of the Puchheim cultural association, was awarded the contract. Her husband drags the heavy door home.
The police as a theme: the artist Discop in front of one of his works.
(Photo: Günther Reger)
Discop’s theme is the police, that’s obvious. He also covered his exhibits with red and white barrier tape. “Police officers are not my enemies,” says the younger artist in the dark terrycloth robe, who does not want to give his age. “The police are also a reflection of society.” Discop comes from “classic graffiti art”, as he puts it. He sees his pictures, spray exhibits and collages as “socio-political statements”. Sales of his exhibits went well during the exhibition. Six red blobs mean six art objects sold.
Buntheim organizer Birinci leaves Alois-Harbeck-Platz with palpable nostalgia. At the end of 2019, the long-standing district manager in Puchheimer Planie started the art campaign on Harbeck-Platz with three colleagues. Since then, street art with lots of graffiti pieces has been sprayed on the facades of buildings that are about to be demolished. In front of the row of shops, the painted history of Puchheim was created with the peat cutters, the waste incineration for Munich, the airfield, up to the development of the Planie. “We were totally happy with the project, which took a year and a half longer than planned,” says Birinci. His thanks go to Laura Stieber and the Harbeck real estate, which financed the art campaign. The child protection association also took part and is now being repaid in the form of a substantial donation.