Monika Müller-Klug

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Monika Müller-Klug (* 1937 in Thedinghausen ) is a German sculptor .

Monika Müller-Klug

Life

Monika Müller-Klug was born in Thedinghausen near Bremen in 1937. After completing her studies, she worked as a teacher at elementary, secondary and special schools. In 1965 she moved to West Berlin with her husband, the sculptor Klaus Müller-Klug . Her sculptural work began there, initially together with Klaus Müller-Klug. Both were members of the "Gruppe Plastik 71". Monika Müller-Klug has lived with her family in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district since 1972. Together with other colleagues, Monika and Klaus Müller-Klug founded the “Westwendischer Kunstverein” in 1988. In 1994 they began to create a sculpture garden in Damnatz on the Elbe, the further design of which is still an important part of the artistic work today.

The following large-scale sculptures by Monika Müller-Klug are in public space: "Atlantic swimmers" (Seegeniederung, Gartow), "Himmelstreppe" (Amtsgarten, Dannenberg), "Watermarks" (Green Area Office Berlin-Wedding), "Breakfast in the green" (Georg-Kolbe- House, Berlin).

Monika Müller-Klug has three children. Till Müller-Klug is a writer and director, Ilja Müller-Klug works for Berlin Verlag and Florian Müller-Klug runs the art agency Artagent Berlin and the agency for historical city tours CLIO Berlin.

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Woodwork

Monika Müller-Klug, Hide and Try, 2009, pine, ash, steel, color, height: 120 cm

In her woodwork, Monika Müller-Klug traces the forces inherent in the material by creating sculptures that are in motion or, better still, remain in a kind of waiting position from which they could suddenly and unexpectedly move into another position at any point in time. The fictional, the imaginary movement is the subject of almost all of her works. Monika Müller-Klug's sculptures, safely standing or comfortably stored, fitted or enclosed, are thus objects on hold. Gear connections, torsions, wave forms, predetermined breaking points, rollers, wheels and hinges evoke the idea of ​​the possibility of a breakout or break-up, a renewed "coming to life" of the dead material in another only imagined reality, dimension or time. Robert Musil could say that her sculptures have a “sense of possibility”: “This could, should or should happen; and if you declare that it is the way it is, then it could probably be different. "

Plantings

Since 1994 Monika Müller-Klug has designed a new form of sculpture for the site of the Damnatz Sculpture Garden, a combination of naturally grown shaped plants with wood or stone elements: the so-called "Plantings". The “Plantings” also take up the subject of movement as a potential and thought. Here, too, Monika Müller-Klug is interested in the non-static, the ambigue, the unbalanced and the unstable in sculpture. But the living material plant actually carries this formally only imagined and abstract liveliness within itself. The plant determines the sculptures to a certain extent through its growth. Despite the regular shape, they change by themselves - they keep moving.

Monika Müller-Klug's oeuvre also includes drawings, etchings and small sculptures in cast bronze.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1989 Painting - Sculpture - Photography, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 1989 Berlin-Odense, Odense Town Hall Gallery, Odense (catalog)
  • 1990 Annual edition exhibition, Kestner Society, Hanover (catalog)
  • 1991 Art on the border, brickworks toad, toad
  • 1992 Sculpture Symposium in the Seegeniederung, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 1996 Kunst im Kasten, Zehntspeicher, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 1998 stone-wood-bronze. Five sculptors from the Damnatz sculpture garden, Salder Castle, Salder
  • 1998 Quarnstadt 98, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 1998 Kunstverein Salzgitter, Salzgitter (catalog)
  • 2000 A View into Infinity, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 2001 Land Liebe, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 2001 Sudden Death Danse Macabre, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 2004 Nachtlust, Künstlerhof Schreyahn, Schreyahn (catalog)
  • 2005 Culture Days Garbsen, M & R Gallery Kolbien, Garbsen
  • 2007 Kaesten, Kunstverein Dahlenburg, Dahlenburg
  • 2008 Small sculpture I, Damnatz sculpture garden, Damnatz
  • 2008 To New Shores. 20 years Westwendischer Kunstverein, Zehntspeicher, Westwendischer Kunstverein, Gartow (catalog)
  • 2009 Small sculpture II, Damnatz sculpture garden, Damnatz
  • 2010 Voltaire in Zeetze, atelier in Zeetze, Zeetze
  • 2010 Small sculpture III, Damnatz sculpture garden, Damnatz
  • 2011 Kleinplastik IV, Sculpture Garden Damnatz

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personal data
SURNAME Müller-Klug, Monika
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Thedinghausen