Christian Philipp Müller
Christian Philipp Müller (born 2 November 1957) is a Swiss artist.
Education and Early Work
Müller was born in Biel, Switzerland, and attended the Farbe und Form (F+F) in Zurich from 1982 to 1983, where he studied Fine Arts and graphic design. From 1984 to 1989, he studied Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a Master Student of Prof. Fritz Schwegler and Tutor to Prof. Kasper König.
His first exhibition at Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln–Düsseldorf (Cologne–Düsseldorf), took place in Cologne in 1990.[1] The next year, he had his first solo museum exhibition, Fixed Values (1991), at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels. For this exhibition, presented a retrospective of his work.[2]
New York
In 1992, Müller moved to New York to participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program and began showing with Colin de Land’s Soho gallery, American Fine Arts, Co.[3]
From 2006 to 2008, he was a partner in the New York artist-run collaborative gallery, Orchard, which was formed by 12 artists, filmmakers, critics, and curators, many of whom had shown at American Fine Arts, Co.[4][5]
Solo Exhibitions
In 1993, the commissioner of the 45th Venice Biennale invited Gerwald Rockenschaub to represent Austria alongside non-Austrians Müller (Switzerland) and Andrea Fraser (USA). Müller removed the pavilion's garden wall and redesigned the landscape of its sculpture garden for his contribution, Green Border (1993).[6][7][8] The work was a comment on transgressing national borders, which he physically enacted by illegally hiking across Austria’s borders with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Germany.
Teaching
From 2011 to 2013 Müller was Dean of the School of Art and Design in Kassel, Germany> He also served as Professor of Performative Sculpture from 2013 to 2015.
References
- ↑ Krebber, Michael (1991). "Köln–Düsseldorf". Texte zur Kunst (2): 176.
- ↑ Miwon Kwon, “Unfixing Values,” in Christian Philipp Müller, ed. Philipp Kaiser (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007), 15–28.
- ↑ Egert, Robert (1993). "Christian Philipp Müller, American Fine Arts, Co.". Flash Art (172): 88.
- ↑ Melanie Gilligan, “Kollektive Erhebung: Über Das Projekt ‘Orchard’ in New York,” Texte zur Kunst, no. 59 (September 2005): 76–85.
- ↑ Felicity, Scott D. (March 2008). "Schön Rau". Texte zur Kunst. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
- ↑ Alexander Alberro, “Unraveling the Seamless Totality: Christian Philipp Müller and the Reevaluation of Established Equations,” Grey Room 1, no. 6 (2002): 5–25.
- ↑ Puvogel, Renate (September 1993). "Biennale Venedig 1993". Artis: 16–21.
- ↑ "Christian Philipp Müller - Green Border". www.christianphilippmueller.net. Retrieved 2016-03-09.