• Panorama Rouen 1431
    created by Yadegar Asisi in 2016
    photo © asisi

Honorary Members

  • Dr. Mimi Colligan

    Caulfield, Australia

    National Centre for Australian Studies Monash University

    Dr Mimi Colligan writes theatre history and biography and has been associated with Monash University since 1968 when she started a mature age part-time Arts degree. After graduating with honours in 1973 she became a research assistant in the Monash University Arts Faculty working part-time in the English and History Departments as well as being Victorian research for ANU's Australian Dictionary of Biography. Mimi obtained a Ph.D. in 1987.

    For the next six years she was Senior Research Officer with Australia Post researching images for stamps and writing Stamp Heritage Books. A freelance since 1993 she has curated exhibitions for the Ballarat Art Gallery for the 140th Anniversary of Eureka Stockade, Old Treasury Museum on the Gold-Rush (1994) on Cremorne Gardens for a Richmond apartment developer (2007) and in 2012 was volunteer curator for a Royal Historical Society of Victoria's exhibition on Melbourne Theatres and Cinemas.

    Mimi is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society of Victoria, and member of RHSV publications committee; Adjunct Research Fellow with the National Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University; former member of the Victorian Working Party, Australian Dictionary of Biography; former Board Member of the International Panorama Council (based in Europe) and a committee member of Theatre Heritage Australia Inc. At present as well as working pro bono on the Theatre Heritage Australia website, she is researching a biographical article on novelist Marcus Clarke's family circle including his widow, the actress Marian Dunn.

  • Patrick Deicher, M.A.

    Lucerne / Switzerland

    Patrick Deicher studied History and Business Management and holds an MA in History. Patrick is a former curator of Bourbaki Panorama. Since 2019 he is a member of the Board of Trustees and since 2022 the President of the Bourbaki Panorama Foundation.

    He is working with BDO Ltd. (Switzerland) since 2009 as a consultant in Public Management and used to be the Head of the sector Not-for-Profit-Organizations & Healthcare for Switzerland.

    Patrick is an active member of IPC's Advisory Group. From 2003 to 2013 he acted as the Secretary-General and from 2013 to 2017 as the Treasurer to the International Panorama Council. He is the former director of the Bruder Klaus Museum in Sachseln and was a member of the city parliament of Lucerne. From 2011 to 2021, he was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Panorama Altoetting Foundation, Germany.

  • Yadegar Asisi

    Berlin / Germany

    Painter, architect, universal artist, founder of Studio asisi and former university professor of architectural studies and presentation

    Since 2003, Berlin-based artist Yadegar Asisi has been creating monumental 360° panoramas up to 32 metres high and 110 metres in circumference. What began as a project in a former gasometer in Leipzig has since developed into a studio with panorama houses and projects in several cities and countries. Asisi is regarded as the artist who breathed new life into the panoramic art form, bringing it into the 21st century.

    The artist's oeuvre embraces a variety of thematic worlds, adding a new diversity of previously unknown panoramic motifs.

    Natural spaces of our earth:

    EVEREST, AMAZONIA, GREAT BARRIER REEF, CAROLA’S GARDEN

    Historical city views:

    BAROQUE DRESDEN, PERGAMON, ROUEN 1431

    Formative moments in contemporary history:

    TITANIC, THE CATHEDRAL OF MONET

    Anti-war projects:

    THE WALL, LEIPZIG 1813, DRESDEN 1945, NEW YORK 9/11

    Milestones in religious history:

    ROME 312, LUTHER 1517

    Full biography of the artist and more information: www.asisi.de