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 Zürich, Switzerland.

— CV
— Exhibition «The Remains of the Day»