ZAK – Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst
Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Alex Müller has developed a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural and installation works in her first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin.
Image gallery
Ali, Alex, Sandra, Fineliner auf Teppich, 2005 (Detail)
Her pictures, objects and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life in a way that is both poetic and objective.
The narratives are multi-layered and use the female figure, the physical and subjective as well as unusual things 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 expresses itself in the use of associatively charged materials and objects of everyday life. Isolated and decontextualized, they become actors in a theater with a foreign dramaturgy that are as moving as they are absurd.
In addition to works from around twenty years of artistic production, the newly created spatial installation “From the hand to the wall” is the focus of the exhibition. It is based on countless letters that the artist's father, who 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 Wall.
PROGRAM
Guided tours with Alex Müller: February 2nd, March 20th, April 6th
Artist talk with Pola van den Hövel, special guest: Isabelle Pabst: March 14th
With the kind support of the Kunstfonds Foundation and the district funding funds of the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
Additional information
Price info: Free entry for people from the Ukraine.
Price: €4.50
Reduced price: €2.50
Reduced price info: children from 6 to 14 years – students – trainees – persons receiving transfer benefits (ALG II, social assistance, benefits under the Asylum Seekers Benefits Act) – persons with severe disabilities from 50% MdE upon presentation of the corresponding ID.
Public Tours in the Citadel Spandau
every 1st Sunday of the month at 2 p.m. in English
regular tours in German on Saturday and Sunday
at 2 p.m.
per person 4,50 € for the Tour
on MuseumsSunday free entry!
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