Performance collective PML

The Performance Collective PML consists of six artists aged 50+. All of them started out from an artistic practice that they developed into an interdisciplinary performance from the very beginning. All of them have become outstanding soloists and lead bands, ensembles and project groups or are long-standing members of influential performance formations. PML’s performative spectrum consists of music, dance and visual arts. PML works site-specifically in architecture and landscape and, in principle, artistically sustainably with materials found on site. In five years of collaboration, the collective has developed its form of expression, which consists of permanent transformation. The boundaries between sound, voice, movement, object and space are dissolved.

Gerno Bogumil
Christiane Budden
Susanne Helmes
Irmgard Himstedt
Paul Hubweber
Britta Lieberknecht
Member in the beginning: Katharina Maister

PML was founded in March 2020 for the first coronavirus lockdown. In order to overcome the forced isolation, the members met weekly in public parks in NRW and began performing together for travelling audiences. In 2021, they moved into a studio situation with two pianos in Cologne and have been practising synergy and crossing boundaries of artistic means on the basis of intuitive communication in their weekly meetings ever since.

PML has performed in special locations and at exhibitions by visual artists with whose works and exhibition spaces PML entered into a specific connection.

2020-21

• numerous performances in public parks in Cologne and Düsseldorf

2023

• Performance for the exhibition by Brele Scholz Tier/Ich/Tier, Aula Carolina, Aachen

2024

• Performance for the exhibition Verwerfungen, various artists including Bernhard Kucken and Hyacinta Hovestadt, Offraum Betonbox, Kunstpunkte 83, Düsseldorf