Pascal Johanssen (born 1973, in Berlin) is a German gallery owner and founder of Direktorenhaus Berlin.Johannssen Gallery – Background, johanssen-gallery.com
Johanssen studied law and worked in the innovation research of the design department of Universität der Künste Berlin.Dorothea Grass: Der Bilder-Sound unserer Zeit , Interview mit Pascal Johanssen, seenby.deLutz Becker: Führungskonzepte und Führungskompetenz, Symposion Publishing GmbH, 2006, , S. 8 und 322 In 2005, he opened the Johanssen Gallery with its main focus on graphic art and illustration.Cutting-edge galleries, in: Mark Wigan: Global Contexts, Basics Illustration 04, AVA Publishing, Lausanne 2009, , S. 148; Vorschau In 2006, he founded "Illustrative" together with Katja Kleiss, an international biennial for contemporary illustration and graphic art in Berlin, which also took place in Zurich and Paris. In 2010, the gallery moved to a new venue in the Direktorenhaus situated at the Alte Münze in the center of Berlin,Anna Pataczek: Bretterhimmel und Moosfußboden. Neuer Kunstort: Grafiker, Designer und Glasbläser beleben das einstige Berliner Münzamt in Mitte, Der Tagesspiegel, 15. Juni 2010 which had by then been established as the exhibition venue for design and contemporary arts and crafts.Dirk Westphal: Designerkunst: Experimentelles Gesamtkunstwerk, Berliner Morgenpost, 17. Oktober 2010Stefanie Dörre: Direktorenhaus , Tip Berlin, 30. September 2010 Johanssen is the curator of the international touring exhibition "Handmade in Germany,"Stephanie Drescher: Ausstellung "Handmade in Germany", Magazin Euromaxx der Deutschen Welle, 29. Oktober 2012 and editor of the magazine "Objects. Journal of Applied Arts" and co-editor of "Deutscher Manufakturenführer".Deutscher Manufakturen Führer 2015, handmade-worldtour.com
Engagement Several projects of Pascal Johanssen deal with the relationship of material culture and digital environments. Johanssen initiated the international touring exhibition "Handmade in Germany," which introduces the manual and artisan character of the production in manufactories as a sustainable model for work and life. Johanssen is editor of the magazine "Objects. Journal of Applied Arts," co-editor of "Deutscher Manufakturenführer" and initiator of "Deutsche Manufakturenstraße", a 3000 km long holiday route, which connects all manufactories of the different German regions.
Publications With Thomas Schildhauer: Führungsmethoden im Innovationsprozess, in: Lutz Becker: Führungskonzepte und Führungskompetenz, Symposion Publishing GmbH, 2006, , S. 305–322; Vorschau eGovernment neu denken: Innovationsstrategien für die digitale Verwaltung, SER eGovernment Deutschland, Berlin 2006, "Die große Walz". In: Objects. Journal of Applied Arts, No. 7, 2014, Berlin, S. 32–39 "Mitteilungen aus dem Direktorenhaus". In: Objects. Journal of Applied Arts, No. 6, 2013, Berlin, S. 18–19 "Kommt das Deutsche Design Museum?". In: Objects. Journal of Applied Arts, No. 5, 2012, Berlin, S. 16–25
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External links Homepage der Johanssen Gallery Interview Pascal Johanssen zur Illustrative 2013 (engl.) Interview Pascal Johanssen zur Illustrative 2008 in Zürich (engl.) Interview Pascal Johanssen zur Illustrative 2007 (Video)