The artist Alex Müller in conversation with Pola van den Hövel. The evening will be accompanied by music from Isabelle Pabst.

Interwoven into a wide-ranging network of autobiographical references, Alex Müller's first institutional solo exhibition in Berlin is a fascinating presentation of painterly, sculptural and installation works. Both poetic and objective, her paintings, objects and site-specific interventions mark stations and turning points in her personal and artistic life. The narratives are multi-layered and use the female figure, the physical and subjective as well as unusual objects and materials to trace the lines, paradigms and distortions of life in a broad visual field. Again and again, an alter ego takes the place of the artistic self-image and the symbolic is expressed in the use of associatively charged materials and everyday objects. Isolated and decontextualized, they become both moving and absurd actors in a theater with a strange dramaturgy.

In addition to works from around twenty years of artistic production, the newly created spatial installation "From the hand to the wall" is the focus of the
exhibition. It is based on countless letters that the artist's father, who had fled the GDR, received from his family between 1961 and 1971.
In these texts, family history becomes world history and world history is transformed into a mirror of family relationships in the German-German
reality before the fall of the Wall.

/ ZAK Center for Contemporary Art
/ Admission from 18:30
/ free of charge