Ulrike Müller
Queens Museum, New York
16 September 2020 – 31 January 2021
The Queens Museum invited artist Ulrike Müller to develop a new work for the museum’s Large Wall, which opened in September 2020 and remained on view until January the following year. Even though the artist has resided in the city for over two decades, this project was the first major solo presentation of Müller's work in New York.
Visible from outside through floor-to-ceiling windows, the 42-metre long wall traverses the museum’s central atrium diagonally. Since the museum’s renovation in 2013, the Large Wall has hosted works by artists such as Miriam Ghani, Anna K.E., Mickalene Thomas, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. In 2020, the Queens Museum was part of a US-wide Feminist Art Coalition where during the run-up to the US Presidential election, art museums and non-profit institutions across the United States presented commissions, exhibitions, performances, talks and symposia around the topic of female artists.
Ulrike Müller (b. 1971 in Brixlegg, Austria) lives and works in New York. She was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial and in the 2019 Venice Biennale, both projects were co-produced by Phileas. Müller has also had solo exhibitions at Kunstverein Düsseldorf in 2019 and at mumok, Vienna in 2016, while her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Hessel Museum of Art, the Brandhorst Museum, Munich, and MoMA PS1 among others.
