MICHAEL MÜLLER
DIOSCURI – THE GIVEN DAY

NEUES MUSEUM, BERLIN, GERMANY
12 APRIL – 23 NOVEMBER 2025

This special exhibition, presented in the staircase hall of the Neues Museum, offers a dialogue on the meaning of time, mortality, and the connection between past and present. Contemporary art meets historical space, refers to ancient models, and offers a modern adaptation of the classical reception of the myth of the Dioscuri, who walk eternally between death and life.As part of the 200th anniversary of Museum Island Berlin, German-British artist Michael Müller presents "The Given Day" at the Neues Museum – a monumental, immersive work that fills the museum’s central staircase like a contemporary frieze. Through large-scale abstract painting, mythological storytelling, and architectural intervention, Müller brings the ancient tale of Castor and Polydeuces (the Dioscuri) into dialogue with archaeology, time, and love beyond death.The myth of the twin brothers – one mortal, one immortal – unfolds across 86 meters of canvas, newly expanded for this Berlin presentation. Originally separated by death, they are granted by Zeus a shared existence between Hades and Olympus, reborn and dying each day. Müller’s work stretches across six portals within the museum, visually opening up paths between past and present, earth and afterlife.

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KÖNIG GALERIE is proud to follow this museum-scale presentation with FRAGMENTE DER ZEIT, Michael Müller’s first solo show with the gallery. Opening during Gallery Weekend Berlin on 2 MAY – 22 JUNE 2025, the exhibition offers insight into Müller’s continued exploration of time, myth, and abstraction.

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MICHAEL MÜLLER
In his work, the German-British artist Michael Müller (*1970) explores the aesthetics and visualization of complex thought processes, which he constantly questions in terms of their sensual experience and material content. Starting from historical narratives, scientific methods, social norms as well as linguistic and numerical systems, he develops an artistic practice that constantly takes these systems and structures to their limits through variation, transformation, manipulation and fictionalizing modification. The resulting deviations and irritations, as well as the resulting doubt about the existing and mistrust of unquestioned truths,...
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