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