Matthias Müller
“Phantom” 2001
DVD
Color, Sound
4:36
Courtesy of Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK, Distrito Cu4tro, Madrid, Spain, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Phantom, 2001
A geography of shadows. Silhouettes that never quite take shape. Anaemic figures, seen in negative, forced to wander between narratives restlessly but caught in a loop which repeats without end. They are a living dead confined to a cinematic space they cannot leave.
Biography
Matthias Müller (1961, Bielefeld, Germany) is an artist working in film, video and photography. He lives and works in Bielefeld. He studied arts and German literature at the University of Bielefeld, and received a MFA at the HBK Braunschweig, Germany. He was a guest professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/Main and at the Dortmund Fachhochschule, both in Germany. Since 2003 he is a professor for Experimental Film at the Academy of Media Arts, KHM in Cologne, Germany. As a curator, Müller has organised numerous avant-garde film events, such as the "Found Footage Film Festival" (1996 and '99), the first German festival of autobiographical films, "Ich etc." (1998) and various traveling programs. With his films and videos he has taken part in major film festivals worldwide, including the festivals at Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Rotterdam. His work has also been featured in several group and solo exhibitions. In 1994, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, dedicated a retrospective to him. His films and videos are part of the collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, the Museu d’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, the Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, the Australian Centre For The Moving Image, Melbourne, the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Goetz Collection, Munich, and Tate Modern, London.
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