Rochelle Feinstein and Ulrike Müller
Coming Soon
2020
cardboard, house, paint, acrylic, yarn, grommets
43 x 53 inches (paper) + plywood
Rochelle Feinstein and Ulrike Müller’s Coming Soon (2020), is a collaboration between two artists in different locations during the pandemic. The piece is composed of 24 cardboard panels held together by grommets and yarn and installed on a freestanding wall. The panels alternate between the artists. Feinstein’s panels provide the data and graphs that define the Covid-19 lockdown, and Müller’s introduces creatures that seem to respond with confusion, frustration, anger and indifference. The grids hang on a large sheet of plywood that boards up part of the window, referencing the boarded-up windows of the summer. While the drawings face outward, a short poster with text-like “speech bubbles” hangs on the back of the wall and provides the titles of each panel.
Ulrike Müller is an Austria-born, New York-based painter whose practice investigates form as a mode of critical engagement. Employing a wide range of materials and techniques, including performance, publishing, and textiles, her work moves between different contexts and publics, invites collaboration, and expands to other realms of production in processes of exploration and exchange. Müller studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria, and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York. A large mural titled The Conference of Animals, is on view at The Queens Museum, New York, though early 2022. Other solo exhibitions include those at The Galleries at Moore, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia (2019), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2018), mumok - Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Vien, Vienna (2015), Callicoon Fine Arts, New York (2014), the Brooklyn Museum (2012), the Cairo Biennial (2010), and Artpace, San Antonio, Texas (2010). Her work has been included in many singificant group exhibitions such as The Venice Bienalle (2019),The Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg (2018), Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon at the New Museum, New York, and The Whitney Biennial (2017). She is the editor of Work the Room. A Handbook on Performance Strategies (OE/b_books, 2006), she organized and co-edited Herstory Inventory. 100 Feminist Drawings by 100 Artists (Dancing Foxes Press, 2014), and from 2005-2008 was a co-editor of the queer feminist art journal LTTR.