
This artist’s works are reflections on the human existence. Where once large-scale paintings or elaborate sculptures gave lessons on characters and destinies, on vices and virtues, today the works by Regine Müller-Waldeck continue this narrative. It is the never-ending story of the fragility of a human being, of the eternal fight between confidence and despair, peacefulness and brutality, between basic trust and hope on the one hand and hardship and misery on the other.
As a socially and politically-alert personality, Regine Müller-Waldeck is not only concerned with the existentialist topic of ‘being-thrown-into-the-world’; she also questions the structures of relations and power we are bound into. That ranges from the individual relation with ourselves to gender-specific and interpersonal relations to the state executive and civil society. Her objects radiate a feeling of latent risk, they reflect the impossibility of controling interpersonal situations.
The extraordinary aspect of these works is this: while they deal with human experiences, man himself is absent. The objects are his representatives, they are symbols. Only in exceptional cases, for instance the wrung-out pieces of textile, is human activity recognizable.
On the whole as well as in detail, these objects are clearly identifiable, yet they remain enigmatic. There are – in Fence (2007) – familiar objects such as a door panel, a tilted chair frame and a branch, yet the head-like bundles immersed in wax remain mysterious, and our association with a raft must remain just an attempt at an interpretation. Similarly the wrung textiles: they are familiar to anyone who has ever tried to dry a piece of laundry; yet the interpretation of a „wrung existence“, as ever the same human fate, different as the human clay may be – that is the beholder’s point of view.
The objects and stagings are abstract and representational-narrative at the same time; the artist speaks of „frozen gestures and stills from a still running movie“. The clear readability might at anytime turn into a state of the absurd, scary or almost unrecognizable. This ambiguity is not the least based on the materiality of the objects. „My concern,“ the artist explains, „is to give the works their own lives, so that they exist just in their own materiality, their concrete medium and thus withdraw from the intellect and its verbal abstract structure.“
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Biography
1975 born in Greifswald
lives and works in Berlin and Gristow, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Since 2012 | Member of the artists group Camelot/Cumuli |
2005 – 2008 | Master-class student of Timm Rautert, HGB Academy of visual Arts, Leipzig |
2002 | lecturing digital photography, Sächsische LehmbauGruppe, Leipziger Gesellschaft für Bildung und Arbeit mbh, Leipzig |
2001 – 2005 | studied fine arts with Astrid Klein, Diploma, HGB Academy of visual Arts Leipzig |
2000 – 2002 | Interdisciplinary d/o/c/k-project HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, with Beatrice von Bismarck and Alexander Koch |
1999 – 2000 | studied with Mischa Kuball “Salon” monthly talk (with Alexej Meschtschanow) |
1996 – 2001 | studied Media arts, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |
1994 – 1996 | educated as graphic designer, Grafik+Design-Schule, Anklam |
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2015 | Residency by Mecklenburgisches Künstlerhaus Schloss Plüschow for Virginia Creative Center of Arts (USA) Virginia Creative Center of Arts (USA) |
2015 | stipend of the Käthe-Dorsch-und-Agnes-Straub-Stiftung |
2012 | stipend of the Karin Abt-Straubinger Stiftung |
2010 | stipend for NewYork by the culture foundation of the Free State of Saxony |
2009 | grant from the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern |
2008 | Ars Lipsiensis Art Prize of Dresdner Bank |
2007 | grant from the culture foundation of the Free State of Saxony |
2006 | scholarship for female master-class students of the Free State of Saxony |
2005 | Sachsen LB grant for diploma graduate students of the HGB Academy of visual Arts Leipzig |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 | Neverending Story – Psychofamily, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn (with Jana Müller) |
2010 | TOMATENCASINO / PAYHALL, Galerie Klemm’s Berlin |
2009 | Regine Müller-Waldeck, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin – Project room |
2006 /07 | Emotional Security, Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig 2006 Galerie AMERIKA, Berlin (with Adrian Sauer) |
2005 | Hanging – Oxford Street, Galerie AMERIKA, Berlin (with Frank Berger) |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 | Trading Places – Zum Handeln der Dinge, Mewo Kunsthalle Memmingen |
2015 | GLUE – „ … and I’ m not happy and I’ m not sad“, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Bethanien, Berlin |
2015 | 3 D – Positionen zur Skulptur, Schloss Plüschow |
2015 | Trading Places – Zum Handeln der Dinge, L40, Berlin |
2015 | Disgni scelti dall’archivio – Storage Drawings 2012 – 2015, Goethe-Institut Bologna |
2014 | Schwarze Sauberei, tête, Berlin |
2014 | 1st drawing Biennial Rimini with Drawings Storage |
2014 | Painting and Sculpture, 532, New York, |
2013 | 13, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin |
2013/14 | Rostock art prize 2013, Kunsthalle Rostock |
2013 | No more heroes anymore, Kreuzberg Pavillion, Berlin |
2013 | Pieces, Galerie Kwadrat, Berlin |
2013 | Cumuli, L40, Berlin |
2012 | In several aspects, Halka Art Project, Istanbul |
2012 | Berlin.Status [1], Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin |
2011 | Dorothea, Gallery Ancient and Modern, London |
2011 | Berliner Zimmer Genossen, Funkhaus Nalepastrasse, Berlin |
2011 | Pop Hits, Tanzschuleprojects München, Autocenter Berlin |
2010 | The Disasters of Peace, Umspannwerk Berlin Tiergarten |
2010 | KMA, Galerie Krome Berlin |
2010 | Die Dinge des Lebens, Kunsthalle der Sparkasse Leipzig |
2010 | Glassworks. Fred Rapid. Autocenter Berlin |
2009 | Hector-Kunstpreis 2009, Kunsthalle Mannheim |
2009 | Carte Blanche IX: Vor heimischer Kulisse, GfZK, Leipzig |
2009 | Close the Gap – Photography Studies with Timm Rautert, Kunstvereine Speyer and Pfaffenhofen, Galerie Kleindienst, Werkschauhalle Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig |
2009 | Amnesie I, Kunstverein Leipzig |
2009 | Unwille / Reluctance, Künstlerhaus Dortmund |
2008 | Vertrautes Terrain – Resonanzraum / Familiar Terrain – Resonating Cavity, ZKM Karlsruhe (Katalog / catalogue) |
2008 | Meisterklasse Fotografie 2006 – 2008 / Master-class Photographie 2006 – 2008, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig |
2008 | Close the Gap – Studium der Fotografie bei Timm Rautert / Close the Gap – Photographie Studies at Timm Rauterts, Sädtische Galerie Kiel (Katalog / catalogue) |
2007 | Without Shadow – Masterclass of Timm Rautert, Galerie Eigen und Art, Leipzig |
2007 | A4, Galerie AMERIKA, Berlin |
2007 | Große Gefühle, Kunstverein Langenhagen |
2007 | Floodlight, Galerie Maurer, Frankfurt |
2006 / 07 | Cropped – Artists from European Academies, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Cologne |
2006 | Before Everyone’s Eyes, Master class Timm Rautert – Académie des arts visuels Leipzig, bac (bâtiment d’art contemporain), Geneva |
2006 | Berlin goes Zurich, Galerie Arndt & Partner, |
2006 | BS 1, temporary project space, AMERIKA, Diskus and Martin Mertens galleries, Berlin |
2006 | A Question [of/for] the Gesture, Opera Leipzig |
2005 | Amerika in Leipzig, Baumwollspinnerei Leipzig |
2005 | Precipitations, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |
2005 | To be in the Picture, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (with d/o/c/k-Project) |
2004 | The Crack in the Teacup – Proceedings in Space, Kunstraum B/2 Leipzig |
2001 | Zugzwang, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |
2001 | d/o/c/k-Projektbereich / d/o/c/k-Project, in Kooperation / in cooperation mit / with Christian Jankowski |
1998 | All Speek like Telly, You speekin’ lyka Book, HGB Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig |