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

Education and early work

Müller was born in

Biel/Bienne Biel/Bienne (official bilingual wording; German language, German: ''Biel'' ; French language, French: ''Bienne'' ; Bernese German, locally ; ; ; ) is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. With over 55,000 residents, it is the ...

, 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, Blinky Palermo, Ma ...

, where he was a Master Student of Prof. Fritz Schwegler and Tutor to Prof.

Kasper König Rudolf Hans "Kasper" König (; 21 November 1943 – 9 August 2024) was a German museum director and curator. He curated exhibitions of works by Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol in the 1960s, initiated the ''Skulptur Projekte Münster'' in the 1970 ...

. 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, he presented a retrospective of his work.

Solo exhibitions

In 1993, the commissioner of the 45th

Venice Biennale The Venice Biennale ( ; ) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy. There are two main components of the festival, known as the Art Biennale () and the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Architecture Biennale (), ...

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

Andrea Fraser Andrea Rose Fraser (born 1965) is a performance artist, mainly known for her work in the area of institutional critique. Fraser is based in New York and Los Angeles and is a professor and area head of the Interdisciplinary Studio of the UCLA Scho ...

(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
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