Christian Philipp Müller (born 2 November 1957) is a Swiss artist.
Christian Philipp Müller | |
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) Biel, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Notable work | Green Border (1993); Carl Theodors Garten in Düsseldorf-Hellerhof; Kleiner Führer durch die ehemalige Kurfürstliche Gemäldegalerie (1986) |
| Movement | Conceptual Art; Institutional Critique |
| Awards | Prix Meret Oppenheim (2016) |
| Website | https://christianphilippmueller.ch/ |
Education and early work
editMüller was born in Biel/Bienne, 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]
Solo exhibitions
editIn 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).[3][4][5] 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.
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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".