Christian Philipp Müller (born 2 November 1957) is a Swiss artist.

Education and early work

Müller was born in

Biel/Bienne , french: Biennois(e) , neighboring_municipalities= Brügg, Ipsach, Leubringen/Magglingen (''Evilard/Macolin''), Nidau, Orpund, Orvin, Pieterlen, Port, Safnern, Tüscherz-Alfermée, Vauffelin , twintowns = Iserlohn (Germany) ...

, 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 The Kunstakademie Düsseldorf is the academy of fine arts of the state of North Rhine Westphalia at the city of Düsseldorf, Germany. Notable artists who studied or taught at the academy include Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter, Magdalena Jetelová ...

, where he was a Master Student of Prof.

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and Tutor to Prof.

Kasper König Kasper König (born 1943) is a German museum director and curator. Career König was born in Mettingen. In 1965 he traveled to New York as a courier on behalf of the Robert Fraser Gallery, where he lived intermittently until 1978. From 1973 t ...

. His first exhibition at Galerie Christian Nagel, ''Köln–Düsseldorf'' (Cologne–Düsseldorf), took place in Cologne in 1990. The next year, he had his first solo museum exhibition, ''Fixed Values'' (1991), at the Palais de Beaux-Arts, Brussels. For this exhibition, presented a retrospective of his work.

Solo exhibitions

In 1993, the commissioner of the 45th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale (; it, La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation. The biennale has been organised every year since 1895, which makes it the oldest of ...

invited Gerwald Rockenschaub to represent Austria alongside non-Austrians Müller (Switzerland) and

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(USA). Müller removed the pavilion's garden wall and redesigned the landscape of its sculpture garden for his contribution, ''Green Border'' (1993). 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

External links

Christian Philipp Müller at Galerie Nagel Draxler

Christian Philipp Müller, Ricardo Valentim, ''Kunst und Freundschaft'' at Lars Friedrich

Christian Philipp Mueller on Michael Heizer as part of Dia's Artists on Artists Lecture Series, 2003
{{DEFAULTSORT:Muller, Christian Philipp Living people 1957 births Swiss artists Swiss expatriates in the United States People from Biel/Bienne