MAY THE P/NK BE WITH YOU.
Art in Public Space featured by Hoffmann City Media GmbH and m-plakat.de
From April to July 2025 MAY THE P/NK BE WITH YOU. has been on display throughout Munich‘s urban space on a total of 500 Billboards, 750 City Light Posters and two Panorama Panels. Many thanks to Hoffmann City Media GmbH and m-plakat.de who made all this happen!
Foto: Markus Kraus
A COLOUR THAT DOESN`T EXIST
P/NK is energy. P/NK polarises. P/NK is an attitude.
What do I stand for, what is my vision and how do I play the game of life? P/NK is the simultaneity of everything. A colour that can be loud, unpleasant and kitschy, but also vulnerable and delicate, free-flowing and energetic. P/NK is the joie de vivre. P/NK is freedom. P/NK is a breath. And the funny thing is: from a physical point of view, P/NK actually does not exist.
The white sunlight visible to the eye can be broken down into the spectral colours red, orange, yellow, green, cyan and blue. However, pink is not to be found here. If you were to roll up the colours of the rainbow in a colour wheel, there is a gap between red and blue. A gap consisting of the invisible longer wavelengths on the one side and the short ones on the other side. And our brain wants to close the gap between the two ends red and blue – it creates pink. A completely new color that doesn't really exist in nature.
P/NK is the field of possibilities. P/NK opens a door. To a new vision. To courageous dreams, joy and to constructive conversation.
P/NK is freedom and the eternal moment.
I would like to share this moment with you.
Higher, faster and further. Eternal ecstasy and bliss. Beauty, eternal youth and endless wealth. The maxim and vision that characterises our time is the as- sertion that the finiteness of the body can be overcome and that one only has to be clever enough to reach an eternal state of happiness. The clever ones remain. Hard work for anyone who isn‘t clever enough... ?
The world is only slowly beginning to realise that this model of reality is based on notorious dissatisfaction. The ideal of material expansion as a means for eternal happiness is an assertion that prevents us from feeling alive and be abele to feel contentment.
So we continue to work hard and exchange our savings for a holiday, only to indulge in the idea for two weeks that happiness could last forever... if only we weren‘t always so dissatisfied ;-)
What if we entered a sphere where fear, separation and eternal strife played no role? If we think P/NK, everything can be different. MAY THE P/NK BE WITH YOU.
The project goes back to a quote by Audrey Hepburn that sounds like a creed and formulates a vision that is so wonderful in these strange times:
I BELIEVE IN P/NK // I BELIEVE THAT LAUGHING IS THE BEST CALORIE BURNER // I BELIEVE IN KISSING, KISSING A LOT // I BELIEVE IN BEING STRONG WHEN EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING WRONG // I BELIEVE THAT HAPPY PEOPLE ARE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE. // I BELIEVE THAT TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY AND I BELIEVE IN MIRACLES.
Thank you, Audrey! There is nothing more to say.
P/NK PRESS
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PASSAUER NEUE PRESSE | FEUILLETON, Mittwoch, 9. April 2025 von Joachim Goetz
Pink als Provokation | Die Pasinger Fabrik in München widmet sich der Bedeutung der Farbe Pink in Kunst und Alltag
(…) Passend zum Thema tapeziert ab Mai dann auch die Künstlerin Ena Oppenheimer unter dem Slogan „May The Pink Be With You“ mit etwa hundert unterschiedlich pinkigen Plakaten ganz München.
Damit will sie eine in verzagten Zeiten so wichtige Zukunftsvision anmahnen und an ein kraftvolles Lebensgefühl erinnern, das so energiegeladen ist wie Pink. Inspiriert hat sie übrigens ein Zitat der unvergessenen Audrey Hepburn, die mal sagte: „Ich glaube an Pink (...),daran stark zu sein, wenn alles schief zu laufen scheint(...), und ich glaube an Wunder!“ Könnten wir doch eigentlich alle.
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DONAUKURIER, KULTUR, 3. April 2025 | Provokation in Pink | von Joachim Goetz
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BUNTE | MONs KUNST KOLUMNE , 15.05.2025 von Mon Muellerschoen
IF P/NK WERE A COLOUR OF YOUR RAINBOW...
P/NK does not appear in the color spectrum visible to the human eye. But the moment the longest and the shortest waves of light collide, my brain goes P/NK. It creates a new colour that actually doesn`t exist...
Photo by Anna Ebell
Photo by Ray Moore
P/NK is the field of possibilities. P/NK opens a door. To a new vision. To courageous dreams, joy and to constructive conversation. P/NK is freedom and the eternal moment. I would like to share this moment with you.
P/NK is energy // P/NK is an attitude // P/NK polarizes // P/NK is being vulnerable // P/NK is freedom // P/NK is an illusion // P/NK is love.
P/NK is what makes me happy //