Regina Maria Moeller

Profile

Biography: 

Regina Möller is an artist, author, founder of the magazine “regina” and founder of the label “embodiment”. She works with a wide range of medial formats.

“The multitude of voices into which Regina Maria Möller splits her artistic work corresponds to the various positions she adopts with regard to that which she confronts. Similar to the way in which overlapping circles form intersections that shift previously peripheral material into a (new) center, Möller shifts attention and reshuffles the cards, so to speak: secondary characters become protagonists, coherencies become contents, opposites are robbed of their oppositions. Möller uses the strategies inherent in her media, overwriting and adapting them for her own purposes, and shows that there are always a number of different versions underneath and alongside the official interpretation.”
(Matthias Herrmann in: Regina Möller: embodiment – dress plot, exhibition catalogue Secession, Vienna 2004)

1994 she founded the magazine regina – which achieved international acknowledgement. regina is an adaptation of the format of mainstream women’s fashion magazine and their notion of women’s everyday life. regina includes the familiar sections – fashion, work, home & garden, recipes, partnership – but the real content of regina is evident how this everyday is dealt with differently, often through the production of discourse.

In the same year she launched the (art) label embodiment. Under this label she produces limited editions of furniture, wallpaper, carpets, accessories and clothes imbuing their materials with new, unusual meanings. The embodiment works can be worn or used as functional design objects. They also reference portraiture and sculpture. embodiment is to be understood as a seam between art and design, and it is a research field about the second skin and the relation between the body and the environment at large.

The projects and works of Regina Maria Möller have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows in venues including Manifesta 1 / NL, 45th Venice Biennial / IT, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art / DK, Tate Liverpool / GB, Moderna Museet / SE, Wiener Secession / AT, 3rd Berlin Biennial / DE, Sprengel Museum Hannover / DE, Tate St. Ives /GB, Kunstverein München / DE, Tensta konsthall / SE and more. 2012 she co-curated ZERO 1 Biennial San Jose Biennial, Silicon Valley / USA.

Currently she is working on a trilogy "The Silent Speaker", which is developing over time and shown on three different cultural venues. In spring 2015 she will begin with an artistic research project - including an exhibition, conference and publication - in Singapore on the invitation of NTU / CCA (Nanyang Technological University / Center for Contemporary Art Singapore) - Möller's project is kindly supported by OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norway)

Aside from her art works and projects she contributes continuously with talks, lectures and workshops worldwide. Recently she participated at CULTURUNNERS @ MIT, a workshop and kick off research about empathy, Edge of Arabia; MIT, Cambridge-Boston / USA.

She has been lecturing as professor and guest professor at international universities and academies, for example Kungliga Konshögksolan (KKH), Stockholm; The Visual Art Program (VAP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) , Cambridge USA. Currently Regina (Maria) Möller is Professor at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (KiT / NTNU).

Professors profile

Publications: 

PUBLICATIONS / BOOKS published / edited by Regina Möller (Selection)

Regina Möller: ...für die Katz. Ein Skizzenbuch / Eine Hommage an die Katze in uns, published by Niederösterreichische Landesregierung, Kunst und Kultur, September 2011

Regina Möller:regina – in Cornwall, magazine published by Projectbase, director: Sara Black, no. 8, July 2007

Shifting Boundaries: Artists – Visual & Cultural Producers Working on Borderlines, book published by Regina Moeller (ed.), Kungliga Konsthögskolan (KKH), Stockholm, May 2006

Pigeonhole - student magazine, Kungliga Konsthögskolan (KKH), Stockholm, Regina Moeller (ed.), May 2005

Regina Möller:regina – in Norway, magazine published by Office for Contemporary Art Norway, director / curator: Ute Meta Bauer / Christiane Erharter, no. 7, October 2005

Regina Möller:regina — Stillleben, magazine published by Kokerei Zollverein, program directors: Marius Babias, Florian Waldvogel, no. 6, September. 2002

Regina Möller:regina – in Sweden, magazine published by Moderna Museet Projekt Stockholm, curator: Maria Lind, no. 4, December 2000

Regina Möller:regina – Special Issue ifu, magazine published by Internationale Frauenuniversität – ifu (international women’s university), no. 5, December 2000

Regina Möller:regina – Special Issue, magazine published by artranspennine98 (Tate Gallery Liverpool and Henry Moore Sculpture Trust) guest curator: Iwona Blazwick, no. 3, May 1998

Regina Möller:regina – Das Große Frühjahrsheft, magazine published by Kunstverein München, director: Dirk Snauwaert, no. 2, March 1997

Regina Möller:regina – Das Große Herbstheft, Zeitschrift magazine published by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, artistic director: Ute Meta Bauer, Prototype / no. 1, October 1994

Regina Möller:Livre á Colorier in collaboration with the kindergarten Le Corbusier in Firminy, Regina Moeller & Project Unité (ed.), Firminy, May 1993

BOOKS (Selection)

Transcultural Exchange, published by Mary Sherman / Transcultural Exchange, April 2011

Maison Martin Margiela Paris, Anniversary Catalogue, Paris, 2010

Paul, Barbara: FormatChange. Art, Popular Media and Gender Politics, Wien 2008

Doing Beyond Gender. Interviews zu Positionen und Praxen in Kunst, Kultur und Medien, Yvonne P. Doderer (ed.), Münster 2008

Fashion Body Cult, Elke Bippus, Dorothea Mink (ed.), Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2007

Faktor X – Zeitgenössische Kunst in München, Angelika Nollert, Florian Matzner, Birgit Sonna (ed.), Prestel 2005

Republicart practices, Hummer, Kaufmann, Minichbauer, Raunig (ed.), Vienna 2005

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES (Selection)

Reflecting Fashion, exhibition catalogue,MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria, 2012

Seeking Silicon Valley, exhibtion catalogue ZERO1 Biennial 2012, published by ZERO1, San Jose, USA 2012

Zeigen - Eine Audiotour, exhibition catalogue Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin 2009

Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication, Kunstbibliothek Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 2009

Dressing the Message. exhibition catalogue, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover 2008

A Questioning of Gesture, exhibition catalogue, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, 2008

Océane Delleaux (ed), Livraison. Multiples and other multiples, no.11, Strassbourg October 2008

The Enforced Dress, Susanne Neuburger (ed), Kunstraum Noe, Vienna 2007

Social Systems, exhibition catalogue published by ProjectBase, 2007

Erblätterte Identitäten. Mode – Kunst – Zeitschrift. Katharina Ahr, Susanne Holschbach, Antje Krause-Wahl (ed.), Jonas Verlag 2006

Regina Möller: embodiment – dress plot, exhibition catalogue, Secession, Vienna (including texts by Barbara Vinken and Hedwig Saxenhuber)

komplex berlin, 3. berlin biennial for contemporary art, Ute Meta Bauer (ed.), Berlin, 2004

kurzführer, 3. berlin biennial for contemporary art, Ute Meta Bauer (ed.), Berlin 2004

First Story — Women Building / New Narratives for the 21st Century, Porto — Cultural Capital 2001, Ute Meta Bauer (ed.), 2002

Öffentliche Kunst, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Amt der Niederösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Kultur und Wissenschaften (ed.), St. Pölten, vol. 6, 2002

Remote Sensing: Laboratories of Art and Science, Baumann, Leonie, Goehler, Adrienne, Loreck, Barbara (eds.) Vice Versa Verlag, Berlin, 2002

International Art Flag Festival: Poetry of the Winds, Department of World Cup Cultural Affairs, Seoul Metropolitan Government (eds.), Seoul, June 2002

Projects: 

SELECTION Exhibitions / Projects

The Silent Speaker - a trilogy by Regina Maria Möller, part II: The Costume, Trøndelag Senter for Samtidskunst / TSSK, Trondheim, forthcoming February 2015

Culturunners at MIT, participant in workshops (kick off research about empathy) and lectures on invitation of Edge of Arabia and ACT / MIT, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge / Boston, USA October 2014

The Silent Speaker, Trilogy by Regina Maria Möller, Part One: The Curtain, in: Deep Sites, Levanger, September 2014 (curator: Anne-Gro Erikstad / LevArt)

META and regina: Two (magazine) sisters in crime, exhibition: Tensta konsthall, June - September, 2014 (director: Maria Lind)

TransCultural Exchange Conference: Engaging Minds, Boston University, October 10 - 13, 2013
http://www.transculturalexchange.org/conference_2013/overview.htm

Todo, en parte. Publicaciones de artistas en las colecciones del MACBA, MUSAC (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilly y León, ES, June 2013 - Jan 2014 / (curators: Araceli Corbo, Maite Munoz)

Reflecting Fashion, group exhibition,MUMOK - Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria, June - September 2012 (curator: Susanne Neuburger)
http://www.mumok.at/programm/archiv/ausstellungen/2012/reflecting-fashion/

ZERO1 Biennial 2012, San Jose, CA, USA, September - December 2012
co-curator of the ZERO1 Biennial 2012 together with Doo Eun Choi, Gisela Domschke, Michelle Kasprzak and Jaime Austin.
http://www.zero1biennial.org/About-Curators

Interview with Regina Möller:
http://zero1.org/blog/interview-2012-zero1-biennial-co-curator-regina-m%C3%B6ller

home/work/dress, group exhibition,passerelle - centre d'art, Brest, France (Director: Ulrike Kremeier), March 2012
http://www.cac-passerelle.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=450&Itemid=100003

GROSSMUGL’S CAT, permanent public art project, commissioned by Niederösterreichische Landesregierung, Austria, opened September 2011

GrundRISS, public art proposal on invitation by BIG ART, Vienna, January 2011

Specters of the Nineties, MARRES centre for contemporary culture, Maastricht, NL September, 2011 (curators: Lisette Smits, Matthieu Laurette)

Living as Form, Creative Time, New York, September 2011

embodiment - headings for apparatjik live act at club transmediale, WMF, February 1st, 2010

embodiment - Costume Design for main characters in “Crash Site” - Film (director and film script Constanze Ruhm), 2009

KIOSK – Modes of Multiplication. An archive of contemporary art, Kunstbibliothek / Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, September 2009

Fri Porto, Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, September 2009

Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 2009

DRESSing the MESSAGE, Sprengel Museum Hannover (curator: Gabriele Sand), 2008

Here and Now! New Forms of Feminist Action, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, 2008

regina – in Cornwall, magazine No.8 realized for Projectbase, Redruth / Cornwall (director: Sara Black), July 2007

embodiment: seam, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, France 2007

embodiment - Costume design for main character in “X-LOVE SCENES”, (director and film script: Constanze Ruhm), 2007

The Enforced Dress, Kunstraum Noe, Vienna (curator: Susanne Neuburger), 2007

Social Systems, ProjectBase, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall (curator: Sara Black), 2007

Artists’ Books: Transgression/Excess and Paralipomena, Space Other, Boston (USA), 2007

Erblätterte Identitäten: Mode – Kunst – Zeitschrift, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig , 2007

Dresscode, Pixelpoint Festival, Nova Gorica, Slovenia (curator: Igor Spanjol), 2006

Eine Frage (nach) der Geste, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig (curators: Alba D’Urbano und Trina Bara), Germany 2006

Erblätterte Identitäten: Mode – Kunst – Zeitschrift, Stadthaus Ulm, Germany 2006

Turtle, Chelsea space / Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (curator: Michael Shamberg), GB 2006

Check-in Europe: Reflecting Identities in Contemporary Art, EPA, München (curator: Marius Babias), Germany 2006

regina – in Norway, magazine No.7 realized for OCA (Office for Contemporary Art, Norway / director: Ute Meta Bauer, curator: Christiane Erharter), October 2005

trans-form, Villa Grisebach Gallery, Berlin, 2005

embodiment – dress plot, (installation, wall-paintings, costume-design, radio-play), Secession Vienna, Vienna (director: Matthias Herrmann), 2004

Costume design for the short film „Überfahrt“, director: Rainer Kirberg, 2004

Performance Jam 3rd berlin biennal, (fashion show embodiment with Life Music by Beate Bartel), KW, Kunstwerke Berlin, 17. April , 2004

Cultural Producer of the hub Fashion and Scenes – Seam / Transition, 3.berlin biennale, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2004

4 & 4, Galerie Müller de Chiara Berlin, 2004