Alex Müller

Alex Müller creates spaces and stages them as walk-in pictures. Her works often transform organic materials such as apples or blue poppies and objects taken from everyday reality into fantastic, paradoxical and enigmatic arrangements. Alongside autobiographical sources, the cultural memory of a society shaped by the media plays a central role in the creation of these constellations. The inspiration from television series from the artist’s childhood and youth, her admiration for filmmakers such as Peter Greenaway and her fascination with mythological and astrological knowledge, but also German history, the division of Germany and her family’s East-West constellation are of great importance here. Accordingly, Alex Müller’s works oscillate between identification and mystery, the creation of meaning and hermeticism.

Alex Müller (b. 1969) lives and works in Berlin. Her works are part of collections, such as Julia Stoschek Collection, Leopold Hoesch Museum or Collection Grässlin and have been presented in museum shows at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart or just recently at Kunsthalle Nürnberg.

2025    

Alexandraplatz, Zitadelle Spandau, Zentrum für aktuelle Kunst, Berlin (upcoming)

2024    

Der Anfang steht schon fest (The Beginning Has Already Been Set), Haverkampf Leistenschneider, Berlin (upcoming, Berlin Art Week)

Erst die Knospe dann der Rest (First the bud then the rest), Galerie Norbert Arns, Cologne (upcoming)

2023   

Bis die Zeit vergeht, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nürnberg

2022   

Musée de la fraise, exhibition in public spaces, Erdbeerhaus, Berlin

2021                            

Die fliegende Pfefferminz, ZF Projektraum, Berlin

2020/21                      

Vom Mähen zum Frieden, Leopold – Hoesch – Museum, Düren

2017                                       

Kapern holen den Wind, West – Wendischer Kunstverein, Gartow

2016                                         

Willst du meine Frau werden, Galerie Sandra Buergel, Berlin

2014                                         

Alles da immer sichtbar, ADN Pförtnerhaus, Berlin

2013                                         

Jeder Stadt ein Müller, Galerie Tanja Pol, Munich      

2012                                         

Alles im Eldorado, Provinzeditionen, Bochum

Bewegungen für eine Reise in Mitte, L40, Berlin

2011                                         

Cassiopeia und der Alberich, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren (cat.)

Peter the Green, Tanja Pol, Munich

2010                                         

Alles für das Hauspferd, Galerie Vera Gliem, Cologne

2009                                         

7 x 14, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, duo show with Shannon Bool (cat.)

2007

Bevor Martha und Hedda nach elf, Bonner Kunstverein

2005

Wände haben Mäuse und Mäuse haben Ohren, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart

Alex Müller. Bis die Zeit vergeht, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, 2023; Photos: Rainer Kradisch
Alex Müller, Vom Mähen zum Frieden, 2021, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum; Photos: Peter Hinschläger

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