VERA MÜLLER
“I love, therefore I am.”
Vera is a painter and filmmaker. Thus, it is not surprising that her ceramics also serve as a canvas for her, and that her human experience is shaped by dramaturgy, particularly through her cinematic interpretation of Eros and Psyche.
Eros, as a daemon and mediator between gods and humans, has been a central motif in our art and cultural history since Plato. Eros brings forth love—whether it be the love of the philosopher for wisdom or the love among people. He embodies the impulse to desire to possess the beautiful, the good, and the true forever. Thus, the lack inherent in all humans by virtue of their nature as singular beings is overcome.
Vera sees herself as the transformative potential of her self, viewing life – with its diverse emotional facets, spectra of light and shadow – as an open process, a cyclical movement that evolves, expands, and deepens, challenging her to cultivate her deeply inherent individual human potential. This transformation process – comparable to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly – is a holistic, healing artistic expression of herself.
Videoperformance: „Quantum Touchpoint Handles“ – Video by Matthias Schwelm, 2025, HD, 16:9, 0:33 min.
REBORN / IN BEAUTY / THE CONSTANCY / OF EROS / TURNED / TO ITS SOURCE
THE GRACES / BROUGHT / THE MOMENT / BACK AND BECAME / THE NEW / BEGINNING
NEEDING / NO CONSCIENCE / CONSCIENCE / WAS FREE
PSYCHE EROS / EROS PSYCHE / SECRETLY / UNSTONED / THE STONED
from: EROS PSYCHE by Michael Lekakis, 1973
In Vera Müller’s works, the movement of Eros is reflected, freeing humanity from its isolation and state of lack. Much like Eros, art serves as a mediator between the conscious and unconscious, between deficiency and abundance. In the end, abundance in art returns to form; indeed, it would belong to the lack of the divine world as a lack in itself.
And so, Vera whispers to us: “You yourself are the artwork of your life. You are the director, actor, producer; you are both the performer and the audience.” She inspires us to ask ourselves: Who am I? Who do I want to be? What film of my life do I want to see? In what world do we want to live?
Hermine Wehr
Vera Müller studied Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and later in Munich, where she completed her diploma as a master student with Prof. Günther Förg. Subsequently, Vera studied Film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg with Prof. Wim Wenders, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts with her short film „Amor und Psyche.“
She has been awarded scholarships from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Stiftung Kulturwerk der VG Bild-Kunst, studio support from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe (Berlin), the Young Art / New Media Scholarship from the City of Munich, grants from the Filmförderung Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein, Erwin and Gisela von Steiner Foundation, Karl H. Ditze Foundation, Academy Association Munich, among others.
Vera has exhibited at Beast Bornholm (Denmark), the Pyramide Exhibition Center (Berlin), Salon Wolfgang Zimmer (Berlin), Kunstraum München, Galerie Royal (Munich), Galerie Braun-Falco (Munich), Reisebürogalerie (curated by Christian Nagel, Cologne), FS.ART (curated by Emilie Bruner, Berlin), Rathausgalerie (Munich) and others.
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