The artist Ulrike Müller (*1971, Brixlegg) engages painterly categories such as abstraction and representation, renewing them at the same time. She materially reassembles visual parts sourced from everyday life and her work. In Pieces invites us to consider modernism not as a completed project but rather as a legacy and horizon whose forms recur but can also be shifted and removed.
The exhibition brings together collages, monotypes, enamel paintings and woven rugs. From a small work on paper, elements move into the exhibition space, which itself becomes a picture plane. The play with broken forms results in the expression of difference to the totality of any form.
For the International Summer Academy Ulrike Müller teaches the course 'Painting Against Naming' (17.–29. Juli 2023)
key data
- Venue
- Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus
- Date
- 15. 7. – 5. 8. 23
- Opening hours
- Galerie Kunst im Traklhaus Waagplatz 1a, 5020 Salzburg Tuesday-Friday: 2-6 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Free admission
- Events
- 14 July 2023, 6 p.m. Artist talk with Ulrike Müller in German/English, 7 p.m.
Ulrike Müller
Ulrike Müller mobilises vocabularies of colour and shape that are politically and emotionally charged and encourage figurative readings. Alongside small-scale paintings in vitreous enamel, Müller also produces expansive wall paintings, publications, prints and textiles.
Education
1996 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
2003 Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY (US)
Teaching Experience
2014-2021 Co-chair of Painting, Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (US)
2019 Alex Katz Chair in Painting, Cooper Union, New York, NY (US)
2019 Visiting Critic, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (US)
2016 Adjunct Faculty, Cooper Union, New York, NY (US)
2014-2015 Visiting Critic, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (US)
2014 Adjunct Faculty, Painting Department, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (US)
2012-2013 Faculty, Bard MFA Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (US)
2008-2013 Faculty, VCFA, Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT (US)
2007-2008 Guest Lecturer, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2023 For Now, Meyer Kainer Gallery, Wien. 2022 On Edge, Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (US). 2021 Moving Parts, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY (US)
2018 Ulrike Müller: Container, curated by Eva Birkenstock, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (DE). 2015 Ulrike Müller: The old expressions are with us always and there are always others, curated by Manuela Ammer, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Group Exhibitions
2022 The Animal Within, curated by Manuela Ammer and Ulrike Müller, mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien. 2019 May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff, 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice (IT). 2018 The 57th Carnegie International, curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA (US). 2017 The Whitney Biennial, curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (US)
Publications
Recent reviews and conversations
What Kind of Zoo is the Museum? Conversation between Manuela Ammer and Ulrike Müller, mumok insider, September 2022. Smith, Roberta. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now: Threads, The New York Times, February 24, 2021. Amy Zion & Ulrike Müller.The Conference of the Animals: Conversation between the Curator Amy Zion and the Artist Ulrike Müller, Springerin, Winter/Spring-2020/2021. Handy, Bruce. Can Kid Art Be Real Art?, The New Yorker, Talk of the Town, December 14, 2020. Gregg Bordowitz. It’s a Small World (After All) Greg Bordowitz on “The Conference of the Animals”, ArtForum, March 2020 issue. Stillman, Steel. Ulrike Müller: In the Studio, Art in America, November 2019. Nadja Abt, Charged Freight, Texte Zur Kunst, March 2019, Issue No. 113
