Artists

Alex Müller

Press release

Everything we do rests on what has gone before. When we come to art, aesthetically speaking, we walk into a fully furnished room bringing along our fully furnished selves. For her first solo show at the gallery ‘Der Anfang steht schon fest’ (The Beginning is already Set) artist Alex Müller has reimagined the gallery’s upperclass bel etagé 19th century apartment with its classic proportions and lofty ceilings as if it were oddly re-domesticated. (An exhibition in a gallery is a cohabitation or form of vibe squatting, a claiming of someone’s space, if only a temporarily.) The artist’s constellation of diverse works summon up a subjective, fragmentary, familial space with many pasts and stories to tell. A suite of figurative paintings (some freestanding with ‘fat’ padded and stitched surfaces), curious sculptures (like Der Ursprung, 2024 that recalls a weird sex organ) and interventions (among them poppyseed wall drawings) echo, albeit strangely, experiences awakened from the artist’s family-minded memories and symbol-laden subconscious. Production and reproduction, seeds and reflections abound.

by Dominic Eichler