Christopher Mullereasy tools

One of the most unusual protagonists of the photography scene in the Rhineland since the middle to late 1990s is Christopher Muller, who has held a professorship in artistic photography at the Folkwang Universität since 2009. With art prizes such as that of the Kunstfonds Bonn in 1995 or of the Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Stiftung in 2004, the artist – who grew up in London and trained at Camberwell College of Arts & Craft, at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and finally at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf – has found his place in the scene. He has always been distinguished by his particular approach, which sets him apart from his colleagues. He comes from the still life, and in the 1990s his serially conceived object photographs duly caused a stir. His most recent photographic collages, as well as the watercolours that occupy an increasingly large place in his work, address the relationship of things to one another and at the same time our view of them. The pictures make clear that viewers are caught up in a complex web of feelings, preferences and aversions, which are also determined by their everyday expectations and actions.