↓ *** various projects, commissions and collaborations *** ↓

<< comfy?>>

2019

'comfy?' 88x63 cm, edition of 20. Silver, brown, orange, yellow oil inks on black oil ink, edition of 20, very very matte like powder, colours so magic irl.

Invited by the artists Slavs & Tatars to make the print edition for the 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic ArtsEdition and commissioned by MGLC/The International Centre of Graphic Arts Museum, this work is available via MGLC in Ljubljana or via me.

Also available as a set of 4 different coloured and unique prints (see exhibition views). Each print is 88x63 cm each.

Presented during Crack Up – Crack Down - The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, curated by Slavs & Tatars, The International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia, May-September 2019, and as a part of Crack Up – Crack Down, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2020.

<< CANCELLED BOOK >>

2018

TEXTS BY MARLIE MUL, LINDA STUPART AND GEORGIA HORGAN.

“CANCELLED" (published Dec 2018) addresses Marlie Mul's public cancellation of a solo exhibition due to impossible working circumstances, that had been planned to open in May 2017 at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, Scotland.

Designed by Maximage, the book brings together photographs of the cancellation’s billboards, and essays by Marlie Mul, Linda Stupart and Georgia Horgan.

“CANCELLED" is self-published and distributed by Marlie Mul with the kind support of Südhausbau, PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der Moderne e.V. Munich.

DISTRIBUTED BY MARLIE MUL. ALSO AVAILABLE FROM: MOTTO BOOKS, BERLIN / AFTER 8 BOOKS, PARIS / CROY NIELSEN GALLERY, VIENNA / ICA BOOKSTORE, LONDON / SAN SERRIFFE, AMSTERDAM / HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM, BERLIN, WIELS BOOKSTORE, BRUSSELS.

<< ground >>

2018

--- edited by Harry Burke and Marlie Mul, ground is a zine that sets out to look beyond institutions in their current form as dominant frameworks for artistic production, and embraces grassroots political and aesthetic perspectives. It was made and printed in 2017. –– featuring texts by Linda Stupart, Shellyne Rodriguez, Khairani Barokka, images by The Gate, Jean-Michel Wicker, Beatrice Glow ...and lots more

issue 1 / May 2018 --- + SOLD AT: AFTER 8 BOOKS, PARIS / ICA BOOKSTORE, LONDON / WORLD FOOD BOOKS, MELBOURNE / SAN SERRIFFE, AMSTERDAM / BANNER REPEATER, LONDON / BOOKARTBOOKSHOP, LONDON / DE DRUKKERIJ, MIDDELBURG / WIELS, BRUSSELS / PINA, VIENNA / FRAC LORRAINE, METZ / AYE-AYE BOOKS, GLASGOW / CENTRE D’EDITION CONTEMPORAINE, GENEVA / LIBRAIRIE ORAIBI + BECK BOOKS, GENEVA / PRO QM, BERLIN / HOPSCOTCH READING ROOM, BERLIN / MOTTO, BERLIN / ECKHAUS LATTA, LOS ANGELES / MOTHER CULTURE, LOS ANGELES / PRINTED MATTER, NEW YORK / TWO BRIDGES MUSIC ARTS, NEW YORK / AND FIND GROUND AT NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEWARD PARK BRANCH --- :)

<< ground poster project >>

at 49 Nord 6 Est –FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France, 2018

Conceived and designed by Marlie Mul and Harry Burke on behalf of ground, a counter-institutional fanzine, November 2018. Contents for the poster came out of group conversations held with with students from the bachelor in fine arts programme at École supérieure d'art de Lorraine (ESAL - Metz), and it was made for the exhibition "Fabriques de contre-savoirs" at 49 Nord 6 Est –FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France, 11.09.2018–10.02.2019.

<< arbre de vie >>

2017

Marlie Mul and Jean-Michel Wicker "arbre de vie" – 5 metre long tree of life collage for Jean-Michel Wicker's book #picturebook1

Excerpt from the book:

the B-interviews : arbre de vie

First of all we set out to regularly meet up in Berlin during a specific period of time in 2016 for Marlie to in an informal way do interviews with Jean-Michel that were to become a part of this book. This would only happen in the afternoon and in pleasant and varied locations. The B-interviews – the B as a play on the B for Berlin, also as a reference to a series of interviews done by Calvin Tomkins with Marcel Duchamp in 1964, called ‘The Afternoon Interviews’.

Because both of us were always travelling throughout this period, these meet-ups were sporadic, and so each time we met time had passed by and there would always be new experiences, ideas and influences to discuss.

We realised our incapacity to affirm anything, instead preferring a sort of meandering through information. We decided then to opt for the form of an arbre de vie* as metaphor of this loose process. Like this we could appreciate all single topics and let them remain in their apparent disconnectedness.

*tree of life

Jean-Michel Wicker, #picturebook1, artist’s book, offset, 27 × 28.5 cm, 396 pages, publication of an arbre de vie produced by Jean-Michel Wicker in collaboration with Marlie Mul, a text by Harry Burke, and a recipe for Alsatian plum pie by Charlotte Wicker (French), English, an edition of 500.
Graphic design: Maximage Société Suisse, London.
Edition of the Centre d’édition contemporaine, Geneva. ISBN 978-2-9701174-0-7.
© 2017, the artist, the authors and Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva.

All photos of #picturebook1 by Sandra Pointet.

<< Hammer >>

2016

Commissioned by Kunsthalle Wien in context of the exhibition "No One and One Hundred Thousand", curated by Luca Lo Pinto at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna 2016.

Flexible silicone hammers, 120 cm, unique pieces, handle colour comes in either green or red. Pictured here in red.

Also exhibited as a part of Back Matter, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, 2021.

<< Grater Dress >>

2015

for Silly Canvas / Centre For Style, 2015

"Silly Canvas"
Centre for Style exhibition at Utopian Slumps, Melbourne.

From the brief by Centre for Style: "Silly Canvas invites a selection of practitioners to create new work, restricted to the parameters of two 70cm x 170cm rectangles of material attached to one another. These works will operate as both flat dresses for a runway performance on the opening night and as static wall hangings for the duration of the exhibition.

The invited practitioners express various engagements with fabric and bodies within their practice and have been invited to challenge their processes through the constraints of the exhibition's premise. You are free to use whatever combinations of materials you desire as long as the work adheres to the prescribed dress measurements: two 70cm x 170cm dimensions of material with openings for head and limbs ."

<< Lecture/Performance at Kunsthalle Wien >>

21 April, 2016, 7PM

Performance. Entropic autobiographical artist's talk. Vienna, April 2016. Part of the lecture series "Histories/Geschichten", curated by Luca Lo Pinto at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna.

For this series of talks I was asked to speak about myself as an artist, and about my artistic practise in the broader narrative of art history through autobiography and artistic influences. I did not feel comfortable with this scenario, additionally also being the only female artist invited in the series. I decided to connect my laptop to the projector and allow audience, and also friends and collaborators at a distance, to interact directly with me via various programmes, Whatsapp messages, Growl notifications, email notifications on screen, and also phone calls. What started off as a 'regular' artist talk soon became an unmanageable situation of pop-up screens, distractions and attempts at managing and multitasking around chaos. Coincidentally, during the performance the wifi of the institution shut down and was replaced by a screen displaying the news that Prince had died, adding to a situation that was very much out of my hands, and which meant I had to further improvise.

thank u to the participants:
Dim Mul (phone call), Michele di Menna (Whatsapp messages), Philipp Timischl (Whatsapp messages) Mårten Spångberg (sms), Hamishi Farah (sms), Parastu (live selfie-taking in the front row), Zacharias Wackwitz (phone call), and Luca Lo Pinto (organiser).

<< mimi magazine >>

2016

mimi magazine is a zine made by:

☺ Anna-Sophie Berger
☺ Marlie Mul
☺ Anne Speier
☺ Philipp Timischl
☺ & Min Yoon

In this cooperative situation that took place at Yappy's Copy Shop in Vienna throughout April and May of 2016 there was no appointed author, nor a specific concept or framework set for the content of the zine.

Thank u to Xerox Austria, Repa Copy, and 21er Haus / Belvedere Museum, Vienna.

☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺☺

<< YAPPY'S COPY SHOP >>

2016

YAPPY'S COPY SHOP is a temporary copy shop. It was located in the Belvedere Museum/21er Haus Museum Artist Studio in Augarten Park in Vienna from March-May 2016 where I was an artist in residence for 6 months. During this time it was open to the public most days from 11am –11pm for regular photocopy services and was a space to work on print, collages and zines with various artists that were based in Vienna at this time.

Thank you to Xerox Austria for sponsoring this project with the borrowing of a copy machine.

<< OUR HOUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR STREET >>

2013

I invited Life Gallery to organise an exhibition/a living room next to the exhibition "Arbeidsvitaminen" at Vilma Gold in London in February/March 2015. "Our House in the Middle of Your Street" was a living room with a carpeted floor, artworks by Vittorio Brodmann, Manuela Gernedel, Ann Hirsch, Anne Imhof and ​Holly White, 2 sofa's and a Playstation. Weekly events were hosted by Emily Jones, Holly White, and Oscar Khan.

Press text by Harry Burke:

“In Summer 2013 I met Oscar one evening. He wanted to cut his hair. I said he could come round and borrow my clippers. He came round to borrow my clippers but for some reason I wasn’t there. Maybe one of us didn’t have a phone. My housemates were there playing video games in the living room. Oscar had a bottle of wine with him. When my housemates left the next month Oscar moved in.

Later on we started a gallery in our living room. We no longer live at that house. Our House in the Middle of Your Street groups paintings, drawings and sculpture by five artists, based in London, Germany, Switzerland and the USA: Vittorio Brodmann, Manuela Gernedel, Ann Hirsch, Anne Imhof, and Holly White. The majority of the artworks are relegated to the walls as the centre of the gallery becomes a social space.”

Events Programme:

Sunday 22nd February – "Just grab my hand and don’t ever drop it". Taylor Swift Deep Listening Party, hosted by Emily Jones and Holly White.

Saturday 7th March – Craft/Embroidery Workshop, hosted by Holly White.

Saturday 14th March – "PoeTRY, an event of poem", hosted by Oscar Khan.

<< Poppin Pollock (Manual) >>

2014

Commission for the magazine Texte zur Kunst, issue nr 95, September 2014 on the subject "Art vs Image".

<< Soap Dish (Bélo Hair) >>

2014

Soap dish with soap and hair in shape of the Airbnb 'Bélo' identity emblem, which was developed and launched in 2014 by a branding company over the period of one year of research.

This piece was shown at Eric Schmid's apartment in New York, at Castillo Corrales in Paris and by the collective ÅYR in London, all in 2014.

<< Sold >>

2013

Experiments with driving taxis and blurry paintings – throughout Barcelona, December 2013.

Background is blurry becoming generic 'cityscape', taxi is in focus, painting was painted to seem blurry/out of focus/in movement.

Sold, gone.

<< Balcuzzi >>

2012

Balcony exhibition with Valentina Liernur, Buenos Aires, 2012.

Exhibition includes paintings by Valentina Liernur, digital prints on silk by Marlie Mul, flower bouquets, candles.

There was no direct access to balcony,
viewing of works from street level only.

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