POP PARADISO June 23 – 26, 2022
POP Paradiso, a festival in the sculpture garden at Museum Abteiberg, was created spur-of-the-moment in the pandemic summer of 2021. A second edition from June 23 to 26, 2022 marks 40 years since the museum’s founding. POP Paradiso will be a major celebration for the museum and city as a whole: a varied array of local scenes will converge on the sculpture garden, use it as their stage, their bar, their space for art, music, and parties. Each day brings a new format. True to the avant-garde maxim See, hear, experience that which you do not know, the festival encourages unexpected crossovers and encounters with the new.
Museum Abteiberg opened on June 23, 1982, when a visionary museum building by Viennese architect Hans Hollein (later an icon of global architecture) welcomed visitors to its inaugural exhibition. Built into the slope of Abteiberg hill, the museum’s architecture — with its large rooftop plaza, terraces, green spaces and sculpture garden paths — was designed to be a place for the city. In the spirit of its open, walkable architecture, the museum’s 40th anniversary will be celebrated indoors and out.
For more on the event, visit www.pop-paradiso.de.
POP Paradiso was initiated in 2021 in cooperation with Museum Abteiberg, Museumsverein Abteiberg e.V., and Kulturbüro MG, and organized by the agency terz machen. It is held under the auspices of the Mayor of Mönchengladbach, Felix Heinrichs. The festival in our anniversary year 2022 is sponsored by the Hans Fries Foundation, Heinrich Schmidt GmbH & Co. KG, and Gladbach & Westend district management.