Luxurious Construction 2

As a young adult, the artist Müller (1953) personally experienced the disappearance of the world of a ceramics factory of Switzerland, as it unsuccessfully tried to defend itself against the flood of cheap products from Far and Southeast Asia.

Against this reality of brutal change, based on purely economical conditions, she posits her 'j'accuse'. Where she initially let her furore free reign onto 'poor' materials, she now chafes herself on the most valuable and prestigious material, on porcelain. She stretches the material - thereby weakening it - by immersing the packaging material such as cardboard filler into a liquid porcelain compound, fires, to visualize the already very advanced exploitation of the porcelain clay, which is relatively rare due to its purity. The sparse symbols of human dwellings under threat of collapse and at the same time of flying away due to the lack of solid foundations are symbols of an exploitative and untenable society.

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  • EXHIBITIONS


    2016        AIC Exhibition Dissegny Hub, Barcelona, Spain

    2015        "Lux, Calme et Volupté", Museum Ariana, Geneva, Switzerland

    2006        "Withe Gold", GalleryChrämerhuus Langenthal, Switzerland

    2004        "Please turn over", Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, USA

    2003        "Schauer", KunstforumKirchberg, Switzerland



  • AWARDS


    1993        6 month Cité des Arts, Paris awardedby the Canton Aarau

    1992        Grant of the Europeen Ceramic WorkCenter, Netherlands

    1990        Gold Medal for Sculpture at theInternational Ceramic Biennale Valauris, France

    1989        1st Prize of the Swiss Ceramic Biennial



  • WORKS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS


                   Foundation Photo, Video, Film, Museumof Art, Berne

                   Collection DOSAK, Berne

                   Museum Ariana, Geneva

                   Graphical Collection, Museum of Artsand Crafts, Zürich

                   Arts Collection, City of Langenthal



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