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Sali Muller
1981 Luxembourg
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Born in 1981, Luxembourg, Sali Muller is an installation and sculptor artist who uses reflective surfaces in order to address universal feelings of self-doubt, self-reflection and self-revelation. Having previously received her MA in Visual Arts at the University Marc Bloch of Strasbourg, France in 2006, she followed courses of History of art courses in Germany until 2009.Analyzing the human habits of vision and perception, Sali Muller questions the concepts of selfishness, vanity and ultimately of the finiteness of our visual culture. Employing reflective surfaces alongside video, light and sound installations, Muller not only investigates the role of the individual in relation to him or herself and the environment around, but also the way human beings alienate themselves from nature and from this narcissistic need of self reflection leading to question self-perception.
Sali Muller is a sensitive analyst of habits of vision and perception, she focuses on concepts such as selfishness and, ultimately, finiteness. She is a young, up-and-coming sculptor who focuses primarily, within the medium of the installation, on the impossibility of depicting a person.
With her Concept Art, Sali Muller investigates the role of the individual in relation to himself and his environment. Not least of all, she addresses the issue of how human beings alienate themselves from nature and from their own self-image. The artist’s repertoire includes photography, objects, light- and sound installations.
Her work stimulates reflection and, quite significantly, consists of mirrors which for the most part do not reflect images and have been treated by the artist in various ways. The mirror-works belong to an aspect of her oeuvre in which the artist focuses on the subjectivity of perception. She takes the mirror as the point of departure for a narrative of anti-reflection.
With her dysfunctional mirror works, Sali Muller directs our attention to the possibility of getting to the bottom of our visual culture. She does this by treating the contemporary obsession with the transparency of all private processes with skepticism and irony – one need think only of the folly of self-revelation that runs rampant on Facebook and other Internet platforms.
Frank-Thorsten Moll Director, IKOB, Museum of Contemporary Art
Upcoming Exhibitions
2019 Volta Basel, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Basel, Switzerland
2019 Spiegelungen, Gallery Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2019 Fragil, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany
2019 Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2019 4/10, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
2019 Group show, White Noise Gallery, Rome, Italy
2019 Digital, Frauenmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany
2020 Solo show, Centre d'Art Dominique Lang, Luxembourg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 Dusk till Dawn, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2019 Digital, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany
2018 Premio Lissone, MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
2018 Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2018 Spiegelungen, Alte Feuerwache - Projektraum, Berlin, Germany
2018 Summer Exhibition, JD Malat Gallery, Mayfair, London, The United Kingdom
2018 Ein gemachter Mensch - künstlerische Fragen an Identitäten, Kallmann-Museum Ismaning, Munich, Germany
2018 Art2cure, Galerie Indépendance, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2018 Birthmarks / Voglie, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2018 Black & White, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany
2017 Lo sguardo di Narciso - The Gaze of Narcissus, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Milan, Italy
2017 Luxembourg Art Week, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2017 YIA Art Fair, The Flat - Massimo Carasi, Carreau du Temple, Paris, France
2017 Luxembourg Art Prize, Galerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2017 Auto I Mobil: Epoche der Mobilität I Epoche der Kommunikation, Tufa Trier, Trier, Germany
2017 Aesthetica Art Prize, York, The United Kingdom
2016 Encoding the Urban, Regionale 17, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
2016 Call XVIII, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2016 Error X, Ostrale, Int. Ausstellung Zeitgenössischer Künste, Dresden, Germany
2016 GroupShow.lu, Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2016 Aesthetica Art Prize, York, The United Kingdom
2015 Incubarte, 7 International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
2015 8e Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Strassen, Luxembourg
2015 La Liberté d'Expression, Musée Nationale de la Résistance, Luxembourg
2015 BlauBlauBlau, Tufa Trier, Trier, Germany 2014 London Calling, Shoreditch, London, The United Kingdom
2014 The Project, Galerie Bradtke, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2014 Salon du CAL, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2013 Recall, Kjub Gallery, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2013 Expo Urbaine Art Door, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
2013 7e Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Strassen, Luxembourg
Solo/Duo Exhibitions
2017 Blackout, e.artis contemporary, Chemnitz, Germany
2017 Museum of Vanities, IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
2016 Ecriture Sans Fin, AICA International Association of Art Critics, Kiosk, Luxembourg
2015 Shadows, Kiosk Trier, Trier, Germany
2015 Die Entzauberung der Welt, 21Artstreet, Kehlen, Luxembourg
2014 Erase Project, Galerie A Spiren, Strassen, Luxembourg
2013 Sali Muller, 21Artstreet, Kehlen, Luxembourg
Collections
MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Lissone
Private collection, Milan
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
Private collection, Milan
Municipality of Strassen
Editions:
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
Publications in library:
Arken Museum of Modern Art
Arter Space for Art
e.artis contemporary
Galeria Elba Benitez
IKOB Museum of Contemporary Art
JD Malat Gallery
Kallmann-Museum Ismaning
Kunsthalle zu Kiel
Kunstmuseum Krefeld
Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek Köln
La Galerie Centre d'Art Contemporain
Latvian National Museum of Art
MAMAC Nice
Neues Museum Nürnberg
Oldenburger Kunstverein
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
The Flat - Massimo Carasi
Awards and shortlists:
2018 Premio della Critica, MAC Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
2017 Luxembourg Art Prize, Finalist, Galerie Hervé Lancelin, Luxembourg
2017 Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlist, York, The United Kingdom
2016 Aesthetica Art Prize, Longlist, York, The United Kingdom
2016 Int. Emerging Artist Award, Shortlist, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2016 Salon de Montrouge, Shortlist, Paris, France
2015 Blooom Award, Nomination, Cologne, Germany
2015 Incubarte Award, 7 International Art Festival, Valencia, Spain
2013 Prix Jeune Artiste, 7e Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Works by Sali Muller
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