Nacido en Bielefeld, Alemania en 1961.
Estudió artes y literatura alemana en Bielefeld University. Estudió artes en HBK Braunschweig. Grado máster. Profesor invitado en Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Profesor invitado en Dortmund Fachhochschule. Desde el 2003, profesor en Cine experiemtnal en la Academy of Media Arts, KHM, Colonia.
Matthias Müller es un artista que trabaja con cine, vídeo, instalación y fotografía. Como comisario, Müller ha organizado numerosos eventos de cine, tales como the Found Footage Film Festival (1996 y '99), el primer festival aleman de filmes autobiográficos, Ich, etc. (1998), y varios programas itinerantes. Con estos filmes y vídeos ha participado en importantes festivales de cone internacional en Cannes, Venecie, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Oberhausen, y Rotterdam. Su trabajo tambien ha sido incluido en varias exposiciones colectivas. En 1994, El MOMA de Nueva York le dedicó una retrospectiva. Sus films y vídeos son parte de colecciones de instituciones internacionales como el Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Goetz Collection, Munich, the collection of Isabelle and Jean-Conrad Lemaître, Londres y Tate Modern, Londres.
2011Contre-jour (Con Christoph Girardet), Distrito 4 Contemporary Art gallery, Madrid 2010Alpsee / Vacancy / Contre-jour, Uppsala Konstmuseum 2007Phoenix Tapes (con Christoph Girardet), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Kristall (with Christoph Girardet), Bozar – Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruselas Phoenix Tapes (con Christoph Girardet), Sigmund-Freud-Museum, Viena Black Box, Distrito 4 Contemporary Art Gallery, ARCO Madrid 2006Manual (con Christoph Girardet), Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville/Virginia Everything in its Place (con Christoph Girardet), Museum Sprengel, Hanover Kristall (con Christoph Girardet), Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl
Phantom, Miami Art Museum 2005The Life of Man, Capella Hospitalis, Bielefeld As If My Bones Had Turned To Water – Sleepy Haven, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York Revisitations (with Christoph Girardet), Solar – Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde
Matthias Müller & Tatjana Trouvé, Galerie Georges-Philippe and Nathalie Vallois Album, Stellan Holm Gallery, Nueva York 2004Album: Film – Video – Fotografie, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin Mirror (with Christoph Girardet), Timothy Taylor Gallery, Londres As Far As I Can See, Distrito 4 Contemporary Art gallery, Madrid Mirror (with Christoph Girardet), Site Gallery, Sheffield 2003The Projected Image, Tate Modern, Londres 2002 Private View, Artists Unlimited, Bielefeld
Collective Items, Die Rampe, Bielefeld Manual (with Christoph Girardet) Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Phantoms, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Londres Manual, Milch Gallery, Londres 2001Vacancy, Stellan Holm Gallery, Nueva York
Matthias Müller – Film und Fotografie, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin 2000nebel, Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Home Stories, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
2011Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol. Klassiker in Bonn. Die unbekannte Sammlung aus Bielefeld. Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn Thieves Like Us, Goethe Institut Ankara 15 years Thomas Erben Gallery, Thomas Erben Gallery, Nueva York 2010A New Stance For Tomorrow, Part 3, Sketch Gallery, London curated by: art & film, Lukas Feichtner Gallery, Viena Ikonoklash, Centro Cultural de Lagos, Lagos / Portugal Hide, MARTa, Herford SPLACE – 12 Episoden im Fernsehturm, TV Tower, Berlin Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Die Ernst Jandl Show, Wien Museum, ViennaPúblicos y contrapúblicos, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla 2009Sharp Chic – Über die Anziehungskraft des Kristallinen, Quartier 21 / Museumsquartier Wien, Viena Artists V Hollywood, Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK. Arts Space Wodonga, Victoria, Australia Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale in Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin Highlights of the Cologne KunstFilmBiennale, Reina Sofia, Madrid. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Two Shows: Peeps/Pistoletto, The James Gallery / The Graduate Center, Nueva York Filmes e vidéos da coleção Goetz, Itaú cultural, São Paulo Moment as Monument, Travancore Palace, New Delhi Veto – Zeitgenössische Positionen in der deutschen Fotografie, Deichtorhallen, Hamburgo IRREVERSIBLE: Dobre cara da colección Sánchez Ubiría, Pazo da Cultura, Pontevedra 2008/09No cinema, Centro de Memória, Vila do Conde, Portugal 2008Colateral 2 – Quando a arte olha o cinema, SESC Paulista, Sao Paulo Wandering in Contemporary Video Art, Palazzo Publico, Magazzini del Sale, Siena 2007Black Box, Distrito Cu4tro, ARCO ‘07. COLLATERAL Quando l'arte guarda il cinema // When Art looks at Cinema, Hangar Micocca, Milán, Italia. Artefact, Stuc Arts Centre, Leuven We Love Cinema, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Annandale-on-Hudson, Nueva York Mulher, Mulheres, SESC Paulista, São Paulo L'oeil écran ou la nouvelle image, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d'art comtemporain Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück Paul Klee, Überall Theater, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Under Hitchcock, Solar-Galeria de Arte Cinemática, Vila do Conde Über die Tausend Quellen neben dem Durstenden in der Wüste, MARTa, Herford That's not Entertainment!, El cinema respon al cinema, Centro Párraga, Murcia 2006Ideal City ˇInvisible Cities, European Art Projects, Potsdam, Alemania 100 Tage = 100 Videos, HEIDELBERGER KUNSTVEREIN, Heidelberg, Alemania. Everything in its Place, Sprengel Museum, Hanover. 2005Neue Deutsche Medienkunst, Eisfabrik, Foro Artístico, Hanover. Some Video Stories, Galería Distrito 4, Madrid. 2003Ron Amstutz, Vincent Geyskens, Matthias Müller, Thomas Erben Gallery, Nueva York. -stat.ic, Tent, Rotterdam. CinéMaison, Beursschouwburg, Bruselas. Drinnen ists anders, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Viena (cat). Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered, Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Migros Museum Zurich / Centre for Contemporary Art Gdansk (cat). Anemic Cinema, Sketch, Londres. Inaugural Group Show, Timothy Taylor Gallery, Londres. Und wenn Du eine Rose siehst, Palmengarten Frankfurt
Sodium Dreams, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson. 1st ICP Triennial: Strangers, International Center of Photography, Nueva York(cat). fast forward, Media Art / Sammlung Goetz, ZKM – Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (cat). 2002Private Affairs – A contemporary video exhibition, Kunst Haus Dresden, Galerie für Gegenwartskunst (cat). Video-ROM 2.0, Gian Carla Zanutti Gallery, Milan. Here, Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bergamo. Work in Progress – Instalações, Alfândega Régia, Vila do Conde. Blow Up Your TV, York City Art Gallery, York/UK. Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Nueva York. Deep Space: Sensation and Immersion, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne. Hausordnungen, Stadthaus Ulm (cat). Juste des Images, Strassburg / Maillon Wacken. 2001playing amongst the ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, Londres (cat). City Symphony, Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (cat).
Bienal de Valencia, Video-ROM, Valencia (cat). Dokumentation und Fiktion, Kunstverein München. All Is Fair In Love And War – The Homeport Video Library, Euromast, Rotterdam (cat). The Stained Handkerchief, Centrum for Hedendaagse Kunst, Maastricht. Die unheimliche Frau – Weiblichkeit im Surrealismus, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (cat). Recasting the Past: Beneath the Hollywood Tinsel, Main Art Gallery, California State University Fullerton (cat). jusqu‘ au bout: Bill Viola, Veli Granö, Joost Conijn, Matthias Müller, attitudes – espace d’arts contemporains, Ginebra. Desktop Icons, CCA Glasgow, touring exhibition
Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (film program). 2000Sehnsucht nach Utopie, Kunstadapter, Wiesbaden. Shimmer, Area, Toronto. Imaginons, un lieu, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville St.-Clair (cat).
Manifesta 3 – European Biennial of Contemporary Art: Borderline Syndrome, Ljubljana (cat.) 9. Marler Videokunstpreis, Glaskasten, Marl (cat). Brasília – Architektur der Moderne, ifa-Galerie, Berlin/Bonn. Living with the Dutch, 89 Erlanger Road, Londres. 1000+1 Nacht, Oberösterreichische Landesgalerie, Linz (film program). Utopias, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry (cat). Monter/Sampler, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat) Elisabetta Benassi - Federico del Prete – Matthias Müller, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Roma. 1999Notorious – Alfred Hitchcock yContemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, exposición itinerante (cat): MCA, Sydney, Australia / Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, Canadá / Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Dinamarca / Tokyo Opera City Art Museum, Japón / Hiroshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan / La Caixa de Lleida, Spain / La Caixa de Tarragona, España. Rencontres vídeo art plastique, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville St.-Clair (cat). The American Century: Art and Culture - Part II: 1950-2000 (film program), Whitney Museum of American Art, Nueva York. 1998Claustrophobia, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, touring exhibition (cat), exposición itinerante: Middelsbrough Art Gallery, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Cartwright Hall, Bradford, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Centre for Visual Arts, Cardiff
Slipstream (film program), Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow. Ghost Story (film program), Künstlerhaus, Viena. 10.01, Kunsthalle Bielefeld (cat). 1997Media in Media, Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana (cat).
documenta X, Kassel (cat). Prends garde! A jouer au fantôme, on le devient, Bersschouwburg, Bruselas (cat). 1996Cluster Images, Werkleitz (cat). 1995Le je filmé, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat). 1994Points de vue – images d’Europe, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat). Beauties, Deichtorhallen, Hamburgo (cat). 1993Desmontaje: Film, vídeo / Apropiación, reciclaje, Institut Valencia d’Art Mode
THE MEMO BOOK, Films, Videos and Installations by Matthias Müller, editado por Stefanie ShulteStrathous. Vorwerk & Berlin. 2005
2004. Matthias Müller .Album, con textos de Matthias Müller, Kathrin Becker, Elisabeth Bronfen, Mark Gisbourne, Stefan Grissemann y Angelika Richter. Editado por Kathrin Becker, NBK. Distrito Cu4tro colaboró en la producción del libro conjuntamente con Timothy Taylor Gallery, Galerie Volver Dile (Berlín), Thomas Erben Gallery (New York), Stellan Holm Gallery (New York), Freunde Der Deutschen Kinemathek, (Berlín), Sixpackfilm (Viena), Light Cone (París) y Canyon Cinema (San Francisco).
Mike Hoolboom, Old Children and AIDS, Independent Eye, vol.11, no.2/3, Toronto, 1990, pp.89-98
Tanja Veenstra, Uitdaging aan de vergankelijkheid, Skrien, no.12, Amsterdam, December 1992,
pp.68-70
Yann Beauvais, Un cinéma mineur, de moeurs, d’humeur – Un second siècle pour le cinéma, Art
Press, no.14, Paris 1993, pp.148-152
Siegfried Kaltenecker, Im Schatten der Objekte. Über die Reflexionen eines anderen Selbst in
Matthias Müllers The Memo Book, Film und Kritik, no.2, Frankfurt 1994, pp.71-84
Jacques Kermabon, Le cinéma dans les plis, Bref, no.26, Paris, August 1995, pp.8-13
Winfried Günther, Überall ist Schönheit. Zu den Filmen von Matthias Müller, epd film, no. 12, Frankfurt, December 1996, pp.18-21
Jacques Kermabon, Matthias Müller - Les résonnances de l’intime, côte court, Paris, June 1997, p.24
Gérard Lefort, Matthias Müller – espris de court, Libération, Paris, June 18, 1997
Mike Hoolboom, Scattering Stars – The Films of Matthias Müller, Millenium Film Journal, no.30/31, New York City 1997, pp.80-88
Gerald Koll, Das Auge als Schlupfloch. Matthias Müller in porträtierender Annäherung, Blimp, no.38, Graz 1998, pp.58-61
Sophia El Mazougui, Matthias Müller. L’arbre de vie, Exploding, no.1, Paris, October 1998, pp.58-61
Gabriele Jutz, Die Physis des Films, in: Unter die Haut, edited by Jürgen Felix, St. Augustin, 1998, pp.351-364
Robert Cagle, Matthias Müller – Home Stories, in: Claustrophobia, Birmingham, 1998, pp.62-65
Serafino Murri, Matthias Müller. L’antico fanciullo, Metamorfosi, Rome, 1999, pp.36-37
Dietmar Post, Mes films s’écartent de cette vison des choses, Scratch Book, Paris, 1999, pp.302-308
Sophia El Mazougui/Florent Guezengar, Comme une image intérieur, Exploding, no.2, Paris, May 1999, pp.117-129
Florent Guezengar, La peau par les rumeur, Exploding, no.2, Paris, May 1999, pp.113-116
Peter Tscherkassky, A Poet of Images, Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema, festival catalogue, Pesaro, June 2000, pp.167-186
Anselm Wagner, Manifesta 3, Frame, no.4, Vienna, September/October 2000, pp.
Maria Walsh, Utopias, Art Montly, no.241, London, November 2000, pp. 30-33
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Le found footage, nécessaire parasite..., Le Monde, Paris, Dec 7, 2000, p.31
Dan Cameron, Manifesta 3, Artforum, special issue Best of 2000, New York, Dec 2000, p.142
Jay Merrick, A tale of two model cities, The Independent, London, March 12, 2001, p.12
Fritz Göttler, Aufgewacht – Vom Alpsee auf den Mars: Die Filme von Matthias Müller, Süddeutsche Zeitung, München, July 23, 2001
Robert Clark, Manual, The Guardian, London, February 2, 2002
Tom Lubbock, Why clíches are important, The Independent, London, March 5, 2002
Morgan Falconer, The present is nowhere, Untitled, no. 28, London, Summer 2002
Michael Althen, Geographie des Unsichbaren, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 20, 2002
Gregor Muir, The Documentary Style – Men with a Movie Camera, Flash Art, no. 228, Milan, January/February 2003.
Samuele Menin/Valentina Sansone, Focus Film and Video, Flash Art, no.229, Milan, March/April 2003
Roger Hallas, AIDS and Gay Cinephilia, Camera Obscura, vol. 18, no.1, Durham, NC, Mai 2003.
2009 Special Mention, 59th Berlin International Film Festival (con Christop 2006 Prix Canal + du meilleur court métrage, Semaine de la Critique / Festival de Cannes, 2006 (con Christoph Girardet)
Deutscher Kurzfilmpreis / Federal Film Award (mit/with Christoph Girardet 2004 Marler Video-Kunst-Preis (con Christoph Girardet) 2003 Ken Burns Best of the Festival Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2000 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik (con Christoph Girardet)
Jahrespreis des Verbandes der deutschen Kritiker
Kunstfonds e.V. Arbeitsstipendium 1999 Main Award, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Nomination for the European Film Award
1st Prize, Viper Festival, Lucerna 1998 First Prize, Semana de cine experimental, Madrid 1997 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 1996 Golden Gate Award, San Francisco International Film Festival 1995 Great Prize, Festival Internacional Curtas Metragens, Vila do Conde 1993 Förderpreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen für junge Künstler 1992 Niedersächsisches Nachwuchsstipendium des Ministeriums für Wiss 1990 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 1990 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 1988 American Federation of Arts Experimental Film Award
