Thomas Schulte

After the first part of his solo presentation at Galerie Thomas Schulte this autumn, which opened as part of Gallery Weekend Berlin 2020, Michael Müller approaches his own work as curator in the second iteration of his exhibition. With the title Ästhetisches Urteil und Selbstlosigkeit: sich einer Sache aussetzen mit entleertem Blick und ohne Halt (Aesthetic Judgement and Selflessness: exposing oneself to something with an empty gaze and without holding back) the artist takes the theme of abstraction one step further. By staging a second version of the exhibition, the curator Michael Müller distances himself from Michael Müller as painter and, thus, also from his own self-commissioned works. Furthermore, a second exhibition opens up the possibility of self-correction; different versions and points of view create a situation of comparison. Herein aesthetic decisions can be found to be right or wrong and an aesthetic judgment can be made.