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Marlie Mul

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Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, 2022

Marlie Mul, installation view The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre Of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2019

Marlie Mul, installation view The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre Of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2019

Marlie Mul, installation view The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre Of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2019

Marlie Mul, installation view The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre Of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, 2019

Marlie Mul, Comfy?, 2019 (detail), silk screen in oil on paper, 88 × 63 cm

Marlie Mul, Comfy?, 2019 (detail), silk screen in oil on paper, 88 × 63 cm

Marlie Mul, Comfy?, 2019 (detail), silk screen in oil on paper, 88 × 63 cm

Marlie Mul, Comfy?, 2019 (detail), silk screen in oil on paper, 88 × 63 cm

Marlie Mul, Air Vent / Butt Stop (Lucifer Match), 2012, steel, cigarette butts, paper, ashes, sand, glue, chewing gum, 30 × 60 cm

Marlie Mul, Air Vent / Butt Stop (Lucifer Match), 2012, steel, cigarette butts, paper, ashes, sand, glue, chewing gum, 30 × 60 cm

Marlie Mul, installation view Oduur, Space, London, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view Oduur, Space, London, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul, installation view Stuff, Mother Culture, Los Angeles, 2018

Marlie Mul„ installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul„ installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul, installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul, installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul, installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul, installation view Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna, 2017

Marlie Mul, Folded Painting #6, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 29 × 40 × 2.5 cm

Marlie Mul, Folded Painting #6, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 29 × 40 × 2.5 cm

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view, Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, 2015

Marlie Mul, tech (#1), 2015, cardboard, steel, polystyrene, 154 × 92 × 20 cm

Marlie Mul, tech (#1), 2015, cardboard, steel, polystyrene, 154 × 92 × 20 cm

Marlie Mul, installation view So We Came Anyway, In Barrels, Fluxia, Milano, 2013

Marlie Mul, installation view So We Came Anyway, In Barrels, Fluxia, Milano, 2013

Marlie Mul, Puddle (Black Suburb), 2013, Sand, stones, resin, plastic bags, 2 × 180 × 36 cm

Marlie Mul, Puddle (Black Suburb), 2013, Sand, stones, resin, plastic bags, 2 × 180 × 36 cm

Marlie Mul, Puddle (Black Suburb), 2013 (detail), Sand, stones, resin, plastic bags, 2 × 180 × 36 cm

Marlie Mul, Puddle (Black Suburb), 2013 (detail), Sand, stones, resin, plastic bags, 2 × 180 × 36 cm

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Do-Gooders), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Do-Gooders), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Your Smoke Draws Me In), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Your Smoke Draws Me In), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, installation view No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel, 2012

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Hedghehog, 2012, Aluminium Bucket, polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, cellophane, cigarettes, 27 × 40 × 30 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Hedghehog, 2012, Aluminium Bucket, polyurethane foam, acrylic paint, cellophane, cigarettes, 27 × 40 × 30 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Pregnant Woman, Baby, and Friend), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Pregnant Woman, Baby, and Friend), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Men), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Cigarette Ends Here (Smoking Men), 2012, Digital print on silk, 220 × 130 cm

Marlie Mul, Hammer, 2016, Flexible Silicone, 14 × 115 × 49 cm, installation view Kunsthalle Wien, 2016

Marlie Mul, Hammer, 2016, Flexible Silicone, 14 × 115 × 49 cm, installation view Kunsthalle Wien, 2016

Marlie Mul, Cancelled show at GoMA, Glasgow, 2017

Marlie Mul, Cancelled show at GoMA, Glasgow, 2017

Marlie Mul, installation view Silly Canvas, Centre for Style, Melbourne, 2015

Marlie Mul, installation view Silly Canvas, Centre for Style, Melbourne, 2015

CV

Marlie Mul
*1980, The Netherlands — Lives and works in Brussels

Education

2008–2009
MFA History and Critical Thinking, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

2000–2003
BA Fine Arts, ABKM Maastricht, The Netherlands

1998–2000
BA Fine Arts, Academy for Visual Arts St. Joost, Breda, The Netherlands

Solo Exhibitions

2024
The Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles (upcoming)

2022
Have You Tried Turning It Off and On?, Wiels, Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels

2021
Sperms Going to a Fashion Show, Croy Nielsen, Vienna

2018
Marlie Mul, Mother Culture, Los Angeles

2017
Booby, Croy Nielsen, Vienna
Cancelled show at GoMA, Glasgow

2015
Arbeidsvitaminen, Vilma Gold, London

2014
Liste, Basel (with Croy Nielsen)
Air Vent, Tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt

2013
Boneless Banquet For One, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Great Offers, CEO Gallery, Malmö (with Morag Keil)

2012
So We Came Anyway, In Barrels, Fluxia, Milan
No Oduur (Your Smoke Draws Me In), Oslo10, Basel
Stop Being So Attractive I Can’t Get Anything Done, Autocenter, Berlin
No Oduur, Space, London

2011
No Oduur, STUDIO, Berlin

2010
Your Wet Sleeve in My Neck, Galerie Lucile Corty, Paris

2008
Untitled (Arrangement), Galerie Lucile Corty, Paris

Group Exhibitions

2024
Medusa, Brussels (upcoming)
Papyrus, Brussels (upcoming)

2023
Darker, Lighter, Puffy, Flat, Kunsthalle Wien
Es ist was es ist – works from the collection – part 1, Tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt
Homotopy Type Theory, Centralbanken, Oslo 
The Stuff of Life/​The Life of Stuff, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

2022
Aaron Angell, Tom Humphreys, Sebastian Jefford, Marlie Mul, Matthew Peers, Hayley Tompkins, Lewis Teague Wright, Rob Tufnell, Venice
Only One Step From Heaven, La SIRA, Asnières-sur-Seine
Gone Fishing, Flat Time House, London
Phantasmatic Riff, UA26, Vienna

2021
The Party, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz
The Museum’s Anatomy, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem
Bye Bye His-Story, chapter 5050, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
Back Matter, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome

2020
Crack Up – Crack Down, U‑jazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw 
(Un)endliche Ressourcen? Die Kehrseite des Konsums. Künstlerische Positionen seit 1980, Städtischen Galerie Karlsruhe 

2019
Tiny Miracles, Zürich University of the Art, Zurich
The 33rd Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre Of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana

2018
She sees the shadows, DRAF x MOSTYN, Llandudno
Crash Test, La Panacée art center, Montpellier 

2017
Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Iza Tarasewicz, Croy Nielsen, Vienna

2016
Wirikuta, Mexican Time-slip, Museo Espacio, Aguascalientes
Project 1049, Gstaad, Switzerland
Daydream from 2013, CANADA, New York, US
Dress Rehearsal, Centre for Style, Berlin Biennal, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
With Institutions Like These…, The Averard Hotel, London
Der Sprache der Dinge, 21er Haus, Vienna
One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Formen des Auswurfs / Forms of Ejection, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz

2015
Blue Moon – The feeling of light, Kunsthalle HGN, Duderstadt
Anagramma, Cura, Rome
Pavillion de l’esprit Nouveau 2.0, Swiss Institute, New York
Äppärat, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa
True Players, W139, Amsterdam
Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Road to Ruin, Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto
Terrapolis, Neon Foundation / Académie Francase, Athen
Deep Screen, Parc Saint Léger Centre D’Art Contemporain, Pougues-les-Eaux
Art in the age of…Energy and Raw Material, Witte de With, Rotterdam

2014
Je suis feministe, Unit 21/​Penarth Centre, London
To The End of the Line, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
Cold Intimacy, Anne Schwarz Gallery, Sydney
Silly Canvas, Utopian Slumps, Sydney
La Musée d’une nuit (Script for Leaving Traces), Fondation Hippocrène, Paris
Puddle, Pothole, Portal, Sculpture Center, New York
Center for Style, Utopian Slumps, Sydney
Couplings, Taylor Macklin, Zurich
In Real Life, Christine König Gallery, Vienna
Airbnb Pavilion, Venice
The Great Acceleration, Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Mueseum, Taipei
Journal, ICA, London
Everything Falls Faster Than an Anvil, PACE, London
Nature After Nature, Fridericianum, Kassel
The Promise of Melancholy and Ecology, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome
AO, Martin van Zomeren, Amsterdam
Bloomington: mall of America, north side food court, across from Burger King & The Bank Of Payphones that don’t take incoming calls, Bortolami, New York
Superficial Hygiene, De Hallen, Harlem
Graphic Design, Futura Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague
Thin Air, Slopes Projects, Melbourne
Basic Zone, Casamadre, Napoli
Art post Internet, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Geographies of Contamination, DRAF, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London

2013
curated by_​vienna 2013: Why Painting Now?, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna
Comrades of Time, Cell Project Space, London
Under The BQE, M/L Artspace, New York
Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, Berlin
A Glass Of Water, Futura, Praque
Forming The Loss in Darkness, Praz-Delavallade, Paris
One After One, Vilma Gold, London
Guest Projects, London
Hi From California!, Freedman Fitzpatrick, Los Angeles
Mumurial, Curtat Tunnel, Lausanne

2012
Health, Twelve Around One, London
XYMEMORY, Arcadia Missa, London
Humble Habits Domestic Monuments, Hinter Haus Des Meeres, Vienna
Net Narrative, Carlos/​Ishikawa, London
8003, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
A Hanging at Times, Times e.V., Berlin
Balcuzzi, Cramer, Buenos Aires
Deleuze and Co., Stadium, New York

2011
Rhododendron II, Space, London
Grouped Show, Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin
Summer Fayre, Outpost Gallery, Norwich
Office Special, Croy Nielsen, Berlin
Benedictions, Punctuation Programme, Limoncello, London
Keep Floors and Passages Clear, White Columns, New York
Rhododendron, W139, Amsterdam

2010
The Smart Frrridge (Chilly Forecast for Internet Fridge), Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
End Note, Archiv Kabinett/​Tanya Leighton Gallery, Berlin (XYM)
At Work With, XYM at the Nordic Pavilion, 2010 Architecture Biennial, Venice
Translation as a Structuring Principle: If A Then B, Gentili Apri, Berlin
Sender, Carrier, Receiver: Print & Demand, Program e.V., Berlin
Keep Floors and Passages Clear, Moot, Nottingham
Enchanted, School of Development, Berlin
Ins Blickfeld Gerückt, Institut français, Berlin
Kiss-You-Through-The-Phone, Paloma Presents, Zürich

2009
+46735747973, Rotor 2, Våland, Gothenburg
Pop Up Café, Meneer de Wit, Amsterdam
Art Books in Light, W139, Amsterdam

2008
FAR 2008, DOCVA, Milan
Death of Samantha / Season of Glass, New Jerseyy, Basel
Corso Aperto, Fondazione Ratti, Como

2007
The Theatre (as International Festival), Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz
My Market (as International Festival), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
CAPITALISM! All or Nothin’ (as International Festival/​European Kunsthalle), Cologne Art Fair, Cologne

2006
Narratives –35/65+, Two Generations, Kunsthaus Graz
Fishfinder, Sequences Art Festival, Reykjavik
Office In Forest Forest In Office, Raum für Kunst und Musik, Cologne

Curatorial

Door Between Either And Or, Kunstverein Munich, Munich (co-curated with Judith Hopf)

Residencies

2021
Frans Masereel Centre for Print, Kasterlee

2019
KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, Yogyakarta

2018
WIELS, Brussels
FRAC Lorraine, Metz

2016
Villa Empain / Fondation Boghossian, Brussels
Belvedere / 21er Haus, Vienna

2014
Kunstzeitraum / Südhausbau, Munich

2013
BAR Project, Barcelona

2008
Fondazione Ratti, Como

Publications

2019
CANCELLED, supported by Südhausbau, PIN. Freunde der Pinakothek der moderne e.V. Munich

2018
Crash test, the molecular turn, La Panacée – MoCo Montpellier Contemporain, Montpellier

2014
Puddle, Pothole, Portal, by Katrib, R, Papapetros, S, Daney, S, Henrot, C, Sculpture Center, New York

Selected Press

2024
Gysel, Jessica, Marlie Mul: Object and Things”, Glean Magazine, January

2021
Henry, Max, Leda and the Swan”, Spike Magazine Online, June

2017
Gut gepaart, runde Dopplungen, harte Tritte”, review solo Croy Nielsen, Vienna, Falter 50/17, December
Crippa, Karim, Please like me!: Art as Labor in the optimized + ever-present renderings of ourselves for Marlie Mul’s Booby at Croy Nielsen”, Aqnb, December
Sutton, Kate,​“Olga Balema, Marlie Mul, Iza Tarasewicz”, Frieze Online, February

2016
Mul, Marlie, Marlie Mul on Rosa Bonheur”, e-flux Online, October

2015
Le Houezec, Camille and Villemont, Jocelyn, Deep Screen at Parc Saint Lédger, Pouguese-les-Eaux”, Mousse Online, May 22
Shaar, Elisa, Marlie Mul, Vilma Gold, Artforum, May, pp. 386 – 387
Art In The Age Of…Energy and Raw Material… at Witte de With, Rotterdam”, Mousse Online, April 29 
Ashton, Sean, Marlie Mul: Arbeidsvitaminen”, ArtReview, April, pp. 115
Gavin, Francesca, Marlie Mul at Vilma Gold, Dazed and Confused Online, March
Marlie Mul”, review solo show Arbeidsvitaminen at Vilma Gold, Artforum, Summer
Marlie Mul”, review solo show Arbeidsvitaminen at Vilma Gold”, Mousse Magazine, Summer
Tinari, Philip, The Gwangju Biennale and the Taipei Biennial”, Artforum, January

2014
Beeson, John, Relative Distance”, Castillo/​Corrales Today #1, March 
ICA website / https://journal.ica.art/posts/alexander-scrimgeour-speaks-marlie-mul – Alexander Scrimgeour interviews Marlie Mul (for ICA project Journal, June)
Kherbeck, William, Vilma Gold: One After One”, Port Magazine Online, 24 May
Picture Spread: Marlie Mul, Poppin’ Pollock”, Texte Zur Kunst #95, September 

2013
Larios, Pablo, General Muck Interview with Marlie Mul”, Metropolis M, Winter 
Ferris, Laura McLean, Indifferent Objects”, Art Monthly, July/​August 
Beeson, John, Marlie Mul – Boneless Banquet for One”, review solo show Boneless Banquet for One at Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Artforum, Summer 
Archey, Karen, Post-i-Meta-Hyper-Materiality”, Kaleidoscope, March
D’Aurizo, Michele, MEET Marlie Mull”, Kaleidoscope Blog, February 15
Review show XYMEMORY” at Arcadia Missa, London, Art Review, January 

2012
D’Aurizio, Michele, Marlie Mul – So We Came Anyways, In Barrels”, Review solo show So We Came Anyways, In Barrels at Fluxia, Milano, Kaleidoscope, December 
de Ruyter, Thibaut, Frieze Focus: Marlie Mul, Smoking, Kissing and Storing Data”, Frieze d/​e, November 
Ishikawa, Carlos, review group show Net Narrative”, London, Frieze, November 
Burke, Harry, In Conversation with Marlie Mul, CMDPlus, June
Larios, Pablo, Warenwahn/​Pure Products Go Crazy”, Frieze d/​e, June 
Upcoming artist of the year The Netherlands 2012”, Grazia (The Netherlands edition), January 

2011
Gavin, Francesca, XYMEMORY”, Dazed and Confused, November 
Gavin, Francesca, Instant Object, XYMEMORY USB Sticks”, Dazed and Confused, April 
Too, Jian-Xing, Review solo exhibition Your Wet Sleeve in My Neck”, Artforum, February 

2010
Marlie Mul – Your Wet Sleeve in My Neck, Slash/​Paris, Online, December 

2009
Schlaegel, Andreas, You Say Goodbye, I Say Hello relational Aesthetics”, Spike Art Quarterly, December 
Dan Solbach, Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti, Daniel Baumann, New Jerseyy’s Top Ten, Artforum, November

News

Marlie Mul

Solo
The Gaylord Apartments, Los Angeles

4/2024
Marlie Mul

Es ist was es ist - works from the collection – part 1
Tongewölbe T25, Ingolstadt

14. 10. 2023 – 21. 3. 2024