Michael Müller. Ernstes Spiel. Catalogue Raisonné

Volume 7.1 of Michael Müller's catalogue raisonné is the first volume highlighting the artist's activity as a curator. It focuses on the exhibition series Deine Kunst at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, which he curated from 2019-22. This series comprised a novel presentation of the collection, as well as being an artistic intervention.

In 2019, Müller had been invited to make a personal selection from the Städtische Galerie's collection and present the works to the public over the next few years. The artist and curator decided against staging a single exhibition; instead, he elected to present the collection in five successive versions and changing contexts, each focusing on different content and form. The individual versions were somewhat eccentric, and Müller staged them in a way extremely suggestive of an artwork the curator even gradually transformed the exhibition spaces, down to the smallest detail.

Autorentext
Michael Müller (*1970, Ingelheim) deals in his artistic work with the aesthetics and pictorial development of complex processes of thought. His large-scale paintings, drawings, installations and sculptures, on which he works over several months, are exhibited internationally. From 2015 to 2018, he lectured as a professor at the Universität der Künste zu Berlin

Zusammenfassung

Volume 7.1 of Michael Müller's catalogue raisonné is the first volume highlighting the artist's activity as a curator. It focuses on the exhibition series Deine Kunst at the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, which he curated from 2019-22. This series comprised a novel presentation of the collection, as well as being an artistic intervention.

In 2019, Müller had been invited to make a personal selection from the Städtische Galerie's collection and present the works to the public over the next few years. The artist and curator decided against staging a single exhibition; instead, he elected to present the collection in five successive versions and changing contexts, each focusing on different content and form. The individual versions were somewhat eccentric, and Müller staged them in a way extremely suggestive of an artwork the curator even gradually transformed the exhibition spaces, down to the smallest detail.