Dear All,
It is of great pleasure to invite you on behalf of the VALS team to our upcoming lecture of Ulrike Muller on Tuesday, January 16, 6:30.
Born in Austria, Ulrike Müller’s paintings explore precise geometric forms that engage with feminist and queer histories. She is also the editor of “Herstory Inventory: 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists (2009–2012)”.
Frieze Article about Ulrike Müller’s work.
Bomb Magazine interview about “Herstory Inventory”, by Thom Donovan.
“In her artistic work, Ulrike Müller explores the relationships between abstraction and bodies through a conception of painting that is not limited to brush and canvas. Investigations of the visual strategies of modernism and of feminist practices of the 1960s and 1970s result in images that are closely related to current questions of body and identity politics. The geometries of figure and color in her compositions are never “purely” abstract. They carry erotic and sexual associations, they tease, touch, and penetrate each other without collapsing into binary logics. Müller uses abstraction as an idiom that can be figuratively appropriated, emotionally charged and politically connoted—depending on the context and the viewer.” – Manuela Ammer, Mumok, Vienna, 2015
“Ulrike Müller’s practice investigates form as a mode of critical engagement. Employing a wide range of materials and techniques, from text to audio and video, performance, publishing, and, most recently, intimately scaled drawings and paintings, it moves between different contexts and publics, invites collaboration, and expands to other realms of production in processes of exploration and exchange.” – Barbara Schröder, DF Press, New York, 2012
