Christian Philipp Müller (born 2 November 1957) is a Swiss artist.
Education and early work
Müller was born in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, and attended the Farbe und Form (F+F) in Zurich from 1982 to 1983, where he studied Fine Arts and graphic design. From 1984 to 1989, he studied Fine Arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he was a Master Student of Prof. Fritz Schwegler and Tutor to Prof. Kasper König.
His first exhibition at Galerie Christian Nagel, Köln–Düsseldorf (Cologne–Düsseldorf), took place in Cologne in 1990.[1] The next year, he had his first solo museum exhibition, Fixed Values (1991), at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels. For this exhibition, he presented a retrospective of his work.[2]
Solo exhibitions
In 1993, the commissioner of the 45th Venice Biennale invited Gerwald Rockenschaub to represent Austria alongside non-Austrians Müller (Switzerland) and Andrea Fraser (USA). Müller removed the pavilion's garden wall and redesigned the landscape of its sculpture garden for his contribution, Green Border (1993).[3][4][5] The work was a comment on transgressing national borders, which he physically enacted by illegally hiking across Austria’s borders with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and Germany.
References
^Krebber, Michael (1991). "Köln–Düsseldorf". Texte zur Kunst (2): 176.
^Miwon Kwon, “Unfixing Values,” in Christian Philipp Müller, ed. Philipp Kaiser (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2007), 15–28.
^Alexander Alberro, “Unraveling the Seamless Totality: Christian Philipp Müller and the Reevaluation of Established Equations,” Grey Room 1, no. 6 (2002): 5–25.
