Guided tour and artist talk with Alex Müller and Pola van den Hövel

Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Alex Müller's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin presents a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural, and installation works. Equally poetic and objective, her paintings, objects, and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life.

The narratives are multifaceted and utilize the female figure, the physical and subjective, as well as unusual objects and materials to trace the lines, paradigms, and distortions of life in a broad visual field. Time and again, an alter ego replaces the artistic self-image, and symbolism expresses itself in the use of associatively charged materials and everyday objects. Isolated and decontextualized, they become equally moving and absurd actors in a theater with an alien dramaturgy.

In addition to works spanning around twenty years of artistic production, the newly created spatial installation "From the Hand to the Wall" is the focal point of the exhibition. It is based on countless letters that the artist's father, who had 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.

AS PART OF THE Spandau Action March 2025