Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Alex Müller’s first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin is a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural and installation works. Both poetic and objective, her paintings, objects and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life. The narratives are multi-layered and utilise the female form, the physical and subjective as well as unusual objects and materials to trace the lines, paradigms and distortions of life in a broad visual field. Again and again, an alter ego takes the place of the artistic self-image and the symbolic is expressed in the use of associatively charged materials and everyday objects. Isolated and decontextualised, they become both moving and absurd actors in a theatre with a strange dramaturgy.
In addition to works from around twenty years of artistic production, the newly created room installation ‘From the hand to the wall’ is the centrepiece of the exhibition. It is based on countless letters that the artist’s father, who had fled the GDR, received from his family between 1961 and 1971. In these texts, family history becomes world history and world history is transformed into a mirror of family relationships in the German-German reality before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Guided tours with Alex Müller: 2.2.2025, 2 pm | 20.30.2025, 6 pm | 6.4.2025, 2 pm
Artist talk with Alex Müller and Pola van den Hövel, Special guest Isabelle Pabst: 14.3.2025, 7 pm
With the kind support of the district development funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion and of:
