Arnika Müll

DRAWINGS AND WALLDRAWINGS

Parcours WEST 4, 2009 La Générale en Manufacture, Sevres / Paris Aujourd‘hui il n‘y a plus de problèmes, mais des solutions. Wallpainting 2009, Inc, Dimensions - 3 m x 2,5 mDrawings 2008, Fineliner on Paper, A4

You can fuck my heart, but can not pick my flower Berlin - able Wallpainting 2009, Inc, Dimensions - 3 m x 5 mDrawings 2008, Fineliner on Paper, 110cm x 70cm

Villa Savoye, Curated by Philippe Rahm

Grinning, 2004 (Grinsen)Dimensions: 841 cm height x 1189 cm weight,

Drawing on half-transparent adhesive film.

MY PUBLIC SPACE

www.myspace.com/mypublicspace

Documentation, 2007 >> 2009

A creation of myspace account called „my public space“ shows a photographical documentation about a group of homeless, who‘re living in front of my home. The documentation shows the changes of their environment.

Object Cardboard-sign, hand-drawn

Date 30.07.2007 / 16h36

Place Les Halles entrance of the mediatheque

de Paris,Chatelet, Paris.The person

was sitting on the ground.

Sex male

Age between 40 - 55 years old

Process The negotiation started with an amount of 5 Euros. The man agreed to sell it for that price.

Acquired for 5,- Euro

Object Cup

Date 25.02.2008 / 18h30

Place Boulevard de la Villette, 75010 Paris,

near the entrance of the supermarket Lidl,

Sex male

Age between 50 - 65 years old

Process The negotiation started at price of

5 Euros, but the didn‘t understand french! I poited on the cup and showed him the money and than he agreed

to sell it for that amount.

Acquired for 5,- Euro

Arbeitsutensilien, 2007 > 2009

Object Cardboard-sign, hand-drawn,

wrapped in plastic

Date 26/04/2008 15h40

Place Faidherbe Chaligny, 75011 Paris,

Sex male

Age between 45 - 50 years old

Process The negotiation started at price of 4 Euros, but the person first wanted

to know, what I consider to do with

his piece, He also wanted me to get a pencil for him so he could draw a new

cardboard. Than he sold it for 5 Euros.

Acquired for 5,- Euro

Object Cardboard-sign, hand-drawn

Date 16.07.2007 / 18h26

Place 75 Rue Faubourg du Temple, 75010 Paris, on the ground of a house-entrance.

Sex male

Age between 16 - 20 years old

Process The negociation started with an amount of 2 Euros, the young man agreed to sell

it at the price of 5 Euros.

Acquired for 5,- Euro

Schlaraffenland, Schlaraffenland, wie süss ist deine starke Hand. Dokumentation, SerieFotografien, Einkaufstüten am Berliner Alexanderplatz, 2008

OBJECTS

Happy, happy, joy, joyMask, 2007

A smile — The cheeks are forced to form a smile thereby forcing the mind of the individual to find happiness and joy in life. The mask serves as a tool to connect the state of mind with the happy mind, in its natural state. «Humour has the same effect upon a person as drugs like cocaine have. But there is one difference: Humour is good for yourhealth. American scientists have found out that smiling strengthens the immune system of the body and increases the production of endorphins. Become happier by being happy!

Preservatic, ( Pope Condom ) Preservatif, 2007

«Preservatic» for making love without having to feel guilty about it.

The pope intends to permit the use ofcondoms in the fight against the AIDS-virus— Excerpt of an article of the Stern magazine from 23 April 2006.

SizeLenght 160 – 170 mmDiameter 44 – 56 mm

HostHost, 2006 There are 12 hosts in a box. On each host is a stamp of digestible ink stating the nutrition value. The hosts made to be consumed during a ceremony taking the “best before end 2009” in consideration.

Cambodia — Love Story, 2004 (Auto-)portraits taken and photoshoped, by a professional Photographer in Cambodia.

BIOGRAPHY

Arnika Müll / Sittichfutter

Alphonse Allais avait eu cette réplique célèbre : « Partir, c’est mourir un peu… Mais mourir, c’est partir beaucoup. » Et face aux projecteurs, aux micros insolents et au crépitement des flashs, ce grand départ qu’est la mort est retransmis sans pudeur sur des millions d’écrans. Arnika Müll engage une réflexion profonde sur l’indécence des médias, phénomène si cher à une époque de communication maladive et frénétique. Quoi de plus symbolique pour dessiner notre ère qu’assister à la lente agonie d’un vieux pape ou aux carnages de la guerre ? Le paroxysme de l’hyper-communication est représenté par la troublante dualité d’un impalpable qui subit son destin, sous le regard d’un libre-arbitre en pleine santé qui jouit sans doute de la désolation du spectacle.

L’oiseau est affamé dans la lueur diaphane de l’écran, la nourriture lui est interdite car issue d’un autre monde, le nôtre, celui des possibles. Ainsi l’oiseau dépérit, doucement, tout doucement… et le spectateur, assis dans l’opulence d’un fauteuil de cuir, détenteur d’une nourriture interdite qui pourtant sauverait l’oiseau, se lamente pathétiquement sur ce qu’il voit, cachant tant bien que mal la jouissance secrète qu’il entretient face au spectacle d’un destin qui n’est pas le sien.

Arnika Müll attaque avec finesse et perspicacité l’effrayante spirale de la communication, les excès pitoyables d’un monde moderne, d’un monde de l’absurde.

David Moscovici

Biography

Arnika Müll born 1978 in Giessen, GermanyLives and works since 2003 as a free working artist in Paris

Education2003 - 2007 Fine Art diploma (DNSAP : Diplôme National Supérieure des Arts Plastique) at the Paris National Art School, the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts” ( ENSBA)

1999 - 2003 Art University of the Land Hesse, Offenbach Main, Germany Solo Exhibitions2003 Dresdner Bank, Frankfurt/M. Germany, Catalogue2005 Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/M. Germany2005 «Sacre Coeur», Gallery Alexandre Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany2005 «Detours», Gallery Frédérique Giroux, Paris, France2005 Paris Mange Disque, Paris, France2005 «Canary food» Gallery Frédérique Giroux, Paris, France2008 «You can fuck my heart, but you can not pick my flower» -able Gallery, Berlin

Group Exhibitions2002 «Play Figures», pre-degree at the Academy of Design, Offenbach, Germany2004 «Ghosts cape» Villa Savoye of Le Corbusier, Paris2004 «Paris > Phnom Penh < Paris > Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Catalogue2004 Betonsalon, Paris2005 «Pirates vs. Ninjas», Kunsthalle Berlin, Pankow2005 Exhibition at the theatre of the city of Erfurt, Germany2005 «Serendipity ou la productivité du hasard», Console and Gallery Frédérique Giroux, Paris2005 «être dans» atelier AIR of Jean-Luc Vilmouth in cooperation with Nathalie Junod Ponsard at the Finnish Institute, Paris2006 Residential co-op Carl Zeiss Eg, curator: Sabine Grosswendt of the Kunstdepartement, Jena, Germany2006 «Portes Ouvertes», Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, ENSBA, Paris2006 «Interim Ex» Gallery Alexandre Zellermayer, Berlin, Germany2006 Videoprojection of drawings and reading at the theatre of the city of Dresden in cooperation with theGerman French literature-magazine «La Mer Gelee»2006 Videoprojection of drawings and reading, «La Mer Gelee», Gallery Jonas Reuber, Berlin2006/07 «Kleine Formate» (hibernation), Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/M. Germany2007 «Die Araber? Die Westler? - Journalismus im interkulturellen Kontext» discussion and exhibition, gallery of the Goethe Institute in Cairo, Egypt2007 «Portes Ouvertes» Ecole nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris2007 «Re:Re:Re: Inter... elarénég», La Générale des Arts, Paris2007/08 «Kleine Formate», Gallery Martina Detterer, Frankfurt/M. Germany2008 “Parcours West” Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, France2008 «Poor services» curated by Sloan Leblanc and Arnika Müll, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, France 2009 «WEST 4» curated by Sloan Leblanc, La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, France

Catalogues and Publications2003 Catalogue for the Exhibition at the Dresdner Bank, edition 600 prints2004 Catalogue for the Exhibition at the Villa Savoye, Ghosts capes, ISBN 2-84056-169-72005 Catalogue for the workshop with the students of the Academy of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia,2005, ISBN-2-84056-177-82005 The Academy of Design (Hfg) annual report, «Doch So», ISBN 3-921997-52-62006 German-French literature magazine «La Mer Gelee», ISSN 1772-06132006 Die Gestalten Verlag, Catalogue «Play Loud!» ISBN 3-89955-157-52007 Iconofly N# 3,2007 Die Gestalten Verlag, Catalogue «Kelvin» ISBN: 978-3-89955-196-92007 Die Gestalten Verlag, Catalogue «Illusive2» ISBN: 978-3-89955-191-42008 German-French literature magazine «La Mer Gelee» Marges2008 Iconofly N#4, Citycowboy2008 «Catalogue for the diplômés de l›Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, édition 2007» ISBN : 978-2-84056-283-2 , EAN : 9782840562832

Awards / Residency 2006 Second place, competition «with your eyes» Li-lak, a Goethe Institute Middle East project, North Africa2007 - 2009 Works at La Générale en Manufacture, Sèvres, Paris

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