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AUSSTELLUNG // EXHIBITION
›Album‹ is nurtured by my personal arsenal of memories. Numerous moving images, collected by me over the years without any particular
purpose in mind, are the visual source of this collage: flotsam and jetsam floating down a river, a plastic bag swirling around a wire,
a shirt hanging in an open window. These motifs encounter each other, as do pictures in a photo album. Inserted texts revolve around
processes of memory, appropriation and loss. Their recurring themes stay fragments - like single sentences lifted from a diary. They
accompany and temporarily possess the images, only to ultimately leave them as they are: open, ambiguous and autonomous. (Matthias
Müller)
Had Marcel Proust made films, they would have been as full of a longing for beauty and as open as those made by Matthias Müller,
the collector of images: complex in their sensorial composition, intellectual construction, and multiplicity of images and meanings. Memories
are made of this: a simultaneity of mental phenomenon and physical process; a rewind apparently moving forward, when, in
›Album‹, the fading vapor trail of an airplane transforms into a delicate line that separates and yet creates harmony between the ocean
and the sky. Müller's space-time continuum ›functions‹ in the shadow of emotional doubt: as a depot for quicksilver imagination, as an
instrument to ward off fear - the word is revealed when a newspaper flutters open in the wind; as the yearning to hold something, like
Faust's desire to ›stay awhile,‹ as visual sonar. A work of art in the context of William Turner and Gerhard Richter, Tarkovsky and
Kubrick. (Andreas Wilink, K.WEST, Essen, May 2005)
Matthias Müller, *1961 in Bielefeld. He studied Arts at the HBK Braunschweig. Since 2003 he is Professor for Experimental Film
at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne. He is an artist working in film, video and photography. For more than fiftteen years he has taken
part in major film festivals worldwide, including the festivals at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. His work has also been featured
in exhibitions at documenta X, Manifesta 3, Whitney Museum, New York, Musée du Louvre, Paris. His films and videos are part of the
collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, the Australian Centre
For The Moving Image, Melbourne, the Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, Tate Modern, London, and the Goetz Collection, Munich.
He has received several international major Awards and Honours: German Film Critics Award, State Encouraging Prize for Young Artists
of Lower Saxony, Main Award, International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen, Nomination for the European Film Award, 1st Prize,
VIPER Festival, Lucerne, The Best of the Festival Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Marler Video-Kunst-Award. Already in 1994, the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, dedicated a retrospective to him.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2004 Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (D); Timothy Taylor Gallery, London (GB)
2003 Tate Modern, London (GB)
2002 Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (GB); Milch Gallery London (GB)
2001 Stellan Holm Gallery, New York (USA); Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin (D); Espace d'Arts Contemporains, Geneva (CH)
2000 Kunsthalle Bielefeld (D); Orneau Baths Gallery, Belfast (GB); Fondazione A. Olivetti, Rom (I)
Group Shows (Selection)
2006 ›40 Jahre Videokunst in Deutschland‹ ZKM Karlsruhe/ Kunsthalle Bremen/ K21-Kunstsammlung Düsseldorf/
Museum für Bildende Künste, Leipzig/ Lenbachhaus, München (D); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (D);
2005 Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (D); Kunsthalle Bielefeld (D); KW Berlin (D); UCLA Hammer Museum, LA (USA)
2004 CCA Glasgow (GB); Maine College of Art, Portland (USA); Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig (D); CAF
Santa Barbara (USA); Platform Garanti, Istanbul (TR); ZKM, Karlsruhe (D); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (F)
2003 Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Danzig (PL); Migros Museum, Zürich (CH)
2002 Kunsthaus Dresden (D); Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (AUS); New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York (USA)
2001 Stellan Holm Gallery, New York (USA); Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin (D)
2000 Manifesta 3, Ljubljana (SLO); Area, Toronto (CAN)
1997 documenta X, Kassel (D);
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