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Wolfgang Müller - Galerie Requisite

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Konschthal Esch presents the first major exhibition of the work of the artist, musician, and author Wolfgang Müller outside Germany. For the first time, this project brings together significant works from all phases of his career, from the punk art group Die Tödliche Doris to his activities as a 'scientist of misunderstanding,' subtly questioning existing hierarchies. In the 1980s, Wolfgang Müller (born in 1957 in Wolfsburg, Germany) founded the legendary Berlin group Die Tödliche Doris with his college friend Nikolaus Utermöhlen. By multiplying formats and media (music, photography, film, video, performance, literature...), 'Doris,' whose name evokes a fictional female character, systematically challenges the notions of identity and artistic recognizability.

Similarly, Wolfgang Müller's work after the programmed dissolution of the group in 1987 plays with public expectations of art, opposing the idea of 'signature' with a protean work that escapes all categories, formal or conceptual. Using deceptively naive associations, described by pop critic Diedrich Diederichsen as a 'reverse conceptualist,' he scrutinizes familiar categories such as nature, nation, history, society, sexuality, or metaphysics, undermining their assumptions.

Recurring themes in Wolfgang Müller's private mythology include Iceland and ornithology, which he associates in his records, radio plays, installations, performances, and publications with amber or shellac, Nordic mythology, titmice balls, the liberal FDP party, or the Icelandic transvestite community. All these elements are considered without distinction as materials that, in a disconcerting abstraction, come together to form a work imbued with curiosity, critique, and humor, where art and reality meet in surprising ways.

As an author and publisher, Wolfgang Müller also published the chronicles Geniale Dilletanten (1982) and Subkultur Westberlin 1979-1989. Freizeit (2013), in which he humorously and eruditely illuminates the art scene of West Berlin before the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989).

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