Janis E. Müller
30 Nov 2013 - 02 Mar 2014
JANIS E. MÜLLER
Into Pieces
30 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
The artist Janis E. Müller (*1982 in Achim, lives and works in Bremen) is concerned with pursuing functionality up to the threshold of its own dissolution, and with translating technical processes into “hand”-crafted procedures. Many of his works focus upon seeking the ultimate limit of reduction. Müller's works are multimedia projects involving both audio-visual media and space-encompassing installations. He subjects his working material to a series of reworkings. He fragments objects of the everyday world and reassembles them in an altered context. Inasmuch as the artist causes the objects to emit a sound or provides them with an acoustic background, they lose their functional significance and are restored to their original materiality. The synthesis of noises and movement transcends the works themselves and allows the viewer to experience a new perception which includes a spatial aspect.
Janis E. Müller was a master pupil at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in the class of Jean-François Guiton and received the Karin Hollweg Award in 2012. The Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting the first solo exhibition of the artist.
Into Pieces
30 November 2013 - 2 March 2014
The artist Janis E. Müller (*1982 in Achim, lives and works in Bremen) is concerned with pursuing functionality up to the threshold of its own dissolution, and with translating technical processes into “hand”-crafted procedures. Many of his works focus upon seeking the ultimate limit of reduction. Müller's works are multimedia projects involving both audio-visual media and space-encompassing installations. He subjects his working material to a series of reworkings. He fragments objects of the everyday world and reassembles them in an altered context. Inasmuch as the artist causes the objects to emit a sound or provides them with an acoustic background, they lose their functional significance and are restored to their original materiality. The synthesis of noises and movement transcends the works themselves and allows the viewer to experience a new perception which includes a spatial aspect.
Janis E. Müller was a master pupil at the Hochschule für Künste Bremen in the class of Jean-François Guiton and received the Karin Hollweg Award in 2012. The Kunsthalle Bremen is presenting the first solo exhibition of the artist.