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“Every boundary – whether it is culturally encoded, materially circumscribed, or rationally established – is a provocation for Michael Müller. Through literature, language, text, music, dance, as well as dress and objects, the artist sets the entire force of his work against any fixed definitions from cultural methodologies and academic determinability. Michael Müller creates an intelligible, artistic network of actions in his oeuvre in which he conceives of its methods and objects as constantly new inquiries into artistic authorship. He makes frameworks of representation visible not only by underining them, but also by revealing patterns of materialization. In so doing, he deploys established genres, practices, and processes, scrutinizing these as parts of an interwoven network that are propelled by their own activity.”—Heike Fuhlbrügge
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Short video of 'SCHWiERIGE BILDER' by Michael Müller at Wemhöner Collection, BERLIN 2021
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Michael MüllerBitch, I'm afraid my vagina is electrified, ... and not being afraid of yellow, 2021acrylic, gesso and lacquer on printed Belgian linen (left). acrylic, gesso and lacquer on Belgian linen (right)Part 1, left: 199 x 358.5 5.5 cm | 78 1/3 x 141 1/4 x 2 1/4 in (framed dimensions)
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“The painting that was and will be is that of art historians and scientists. The painting that is, is that of the living. The painting that is, is that of the painters. Should it be empty of content, which I fear, how could I grasp its essence? To ask about it seems an impertinent injustice.”—Michael Müller
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Tsingtao, 2019
Acrylic on glass and canvas
206 × 167 × 6 cm | 81 × 65 ¾ × 2 ⅓ in -
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Ästhetisches Urteil (Entscheidungsträger Name_________), 2020
Lacquer on Belgian linen
200 × 160 × 2.5 cm | 78 ¾ × 63 × 1 in -
Lage der Freiheit, 2019/2020
Acrylic, gesso, lacquer paint on Belgian canvas and plexiglass
182 × 283 × 8.5 cm | 71 ⅔ × 111 ½ × 3 ⅓ in -
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“Painting and people share the fate of being incomprehensible. They are beyond rationality. They are both banal.”—Michael Müller
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“Painting means essence and not plurality. To look for the spirit of painting in language will fail. A picture is always singular.”—Michael Müller
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“Painting is a process with a double meaning. It is a Delphic document of the progress of the negotiation between painter and matter in the picture and evidence of the painter’s final departure from painting, letting a picture simply be a picture—as an admission.”—Michael Müller
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Most recent paintings
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Michael Müller: Paintings
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