Alex Müller: Alexandraplatz

In the organizer's words:

Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Berlin artist Alex Müller is developing a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural and installation works in her first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin.

Both poetic and objective, her paintings, objects and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life. The narratives are multi-layered and use 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. Again and again, an alter ego takes the place of the artistic self-image and the symbolic is expressed in the use of associatively charged materials and everyday objects. Isolated and decontextualized, they become both moving and absurd actors in a theater with a strange dramaturgy. In addition to works from around twenty years of artistic production, the newly created 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 had fled the GDR, received from his family between 1961 and 1971. In these texts, family history becomes world history and transforms world history into a mirror of family relationships in the German-German reality before the fall of the Wall.

Program accompanying the exhibition:

Sunday, 2.2.2025, 2 p.m.
Guided tour with Alex Müller

Thursday, 20.3.2025, 6 p.m.
Guided tour with Alex Müller

Sunday, 6.4.2025, 2 pm
Guided tour with Alex Müller

Friday, 14.3.2025, 7 pm (admission from 6:30 pm)
Artist talk with Alex Müller and Pola van den Hövel, special guest: Isabelle Pabst

Zitadelle Spandau Center for Contemporary Art Am Juliusturm 64
13599 Berlin

Fri-Wed 10am-5pm / Thu 1pm-8pm

citadel-spandau.de

Price information:

regular 4.50 EUR reduced 2.50 EUR Admission prices include the museums, the Julius Tower and the exhibitions