Janet Mueller
The irrepressible painting of Janet Mueller gives rise to works that are as powerful as they are highly sensitive. In a process of applying and removing paint, concrete, figurative, and typographical elements are fused together to create a vivid personal pictorial language that brings together surrealistic automatisms and neo-Expressionist expression, and is at times reminiscent of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Her pictures, installations, and actions negotiate the intuitive, gestural, and process-oriented qualities in the act of painting and unrelentingly address directness, incompleteness, and questions of identity.
Mueller engages in lively exhibition activities: her works have been shown at the Helmhaus Zürich, the Kunstzeughaus Rapperswil, and the Fundaziun Nairs Scuol, among other venues, as well as in art exhibitions with Lutz & Guggisberg, Eric Hattan, or huber.huber. Janet Mueller’s works are part of numerous private and public art collections, for instance of the City of Zurich or the Swiss National Bank.
*1975 in the former GDR, lives und works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Studio view of Janet Mueller, 2022. Photo: the artist.
Exhibition view "Visarte & Friends" at the Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023. Janet Mueller "Ein Raster muss fliegen" ["A grid must fly"], 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Tanja Trampe.
Intervention view by Janet Mueller as part of "What's Cooking? A Re-Arrangement / Eine Um-Ordnung (becoming with)" at Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023. Photo: Maria Natalich.
Exhibition view "Janet Mueller - Was vom Tage übrig bleibt" ["Janet Mueller - What remains of the day"] at Galerie König Büro, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023. Janet Mueller "DU und ICH_ICH und DU" ["YOU and ME_I and YOU"], 2023. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Michel Gilgen.
Installation view "Janet Mueller - Was vom Tage übrig bleibt" ["Janet Mueller - What remains of the day"] at Galerie König Büro, Zurich, Switzerland, 2023. Photo: Michel Gilgen.
