Jessica Muller

Jessica Muller (Bergen, Germany, 1963)
In the beginning, the canvas was empty. Jessica Muller creates with color and paint (her handwriting) a new visual space in which distance and nearness are synchronous. "The work starts from zero: emptiness, meaninglessness, without any preconception, nor is there a preconceived image to aim at," Jessica explains. And "The whole work is a timeless "˜being', originated from a piling up of instantaneous actions which together are to be its opposite: timeless or limitless. The result is a view into different dimensions at the same time."

From nothingness all originates; all is nothing.
The agreements we've made and the thoughts we dedicate to these agreements make the world look like it does. We are never to know if the meaning of what we see is the same for each of us. For every human being the word is connected with a manifestation. In creational mysticism, it is "˜In the beginning was The Word'.
What is then the meaning of the image? The imitation of the word? Or does the image exist autonomously, without words? In my paintings, I am in search of the autonomous image. The work starts from scratch: empty, meaningless. There is no such thing as a preconceived plan, not a preconceived image to...

Het Rijnlands Lyceum VWO - 1982

Royal Academy of Fine Arts The Hague, the Netherlands -1988
Bachelor in painting & monumental design
Video Documentary since 1998
BA in Arts and Design: Education, 2014 Cum Laude, Artez Arnhem, the Netherlands

2024 Magnefiek Art & Design Fair, Bakermat, Arnhem
2023 Pulchri Studio, 'Between the lines', dec. '23 solo
2023 Micksart Gallery, Emmen April 23rd -June 18th
2023 Pulchri Studio, Haagse Salon April '23, The Hague
2022 Magnifiek, Art & DesignFair, Arnhem end oct.
2021 Pulchri Studio, Haagse Salon, The Hague
2019 EuropArtfair Amsterdam, 6-7-8 december '19
Westergasfabriek
2016 Art Fair ArtArnhem
2016 Gallery 'Nasty Alice', Shuffle', Eindhoven
2016 'Gilcrest project', SaatchiArt, Los Angeles,
USA
2016 'Posthuys gallery', Texel
2015 'About everything, coming from nowhere'
at 'Agnes Raben Gallery',Vorden, Netherlands
2014 'Tracing the stomping bride', video art 4:00min.
St AnnaKunsthalle, Lübeck, Germany
2014 'solo', galerie 23, Helmond
2013 ‘Spotlight’, Oude Apotheek, Zutphen
2012 ‘Galerie de Grunerie’, Oegstgeest
2012 ‘Dwalen door beschermd gebied’, with Hans
de Bruijn, Christine Bittremieux,
A.Bolten, Galerie Agnes Raben, Vorden
2012 ‘Dutch invasion Houston’, Pulchri Studio,
Mesdagzaal, The Hague
2012 ‘Forma Aktua galerie’, Nieuwstad 10,
Groningen
2011 Willia...