EDUCATION

1992   M.F.A. University GHS Essen, Folkwang-School Concentration in Photography

1984   University GHS Essen, Folkwang-School Design, Photography and Film

2002-05 Guest Professor Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

 

2005 Bunkerscapes, van der Grinten Gallery, Cologne, Germany

2004 Terra Cognita Julie Saul Gallery, New York

2003 Angels in Fall, Büro für Fotos, Köln, Deutschland

2002 Bunkerscapes Karyn Lovegrovegallery, Los Angeles, California

2001

Angels in Fall, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Angels in Fall, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, New York

1999 Silent Summer, Craig Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Angels in Fall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA

1997 Tryptic, DG Gallery, Munich, Germany
Angels in Fall, Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

1996 Angels in Fall, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, Los Angeles, California,

1992 Myth of Tahiti: More a Notion than a Place, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany

1993 Deutsche Landschaft, Essen/Orangerie, Essen, Germany

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2007
Spectacular City, NRW Kunstforum, Dusseldorf, Deutschland

2006
Spectacular City, NAI, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Land in Translation, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA

2005
THE NEW CITY Sub/urbia in Recent Photography, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
Facing The Music, RedCat, Los Angeles, CA

2004 Vagues, Musee Malraux, le Havre, France

 

2003 Urban Space, La Verne, California

2002
Vacant, Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, California
Die Welt als Ganzes, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; Bentara Budaya, Jakarta, Indonesia (May 4 - May 18, 2002); Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea (August 28 - October 13, 2002)

2001
Die Welt als Ganzes, Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia
Die Welt als Ganzes, SK-Stiftung, Cologne, Germany
Mental Wilderness, Gale Gates, Brooklyn, New York

1997
Wirklich, Fotomuseum in Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Contemporary German Photography, Galerie Neuger Riemschneider, Berlin, Germany; Galerie Wittenbrink, Munich, Germany; Galerie Reckerman, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Lehmann, Dresden, Germany

1996 Das Deutsche Auge, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1995 Atomium, Kodak European Panorama of Young Photography, Arles

1994 Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany

1992 Best Masterworks of NRW, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

1991
Internationale Phototage, Herten, Germany
Award for Young Journalism, Agfa Haus, Leverkusen, Germany

1989 The Other Side of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

2006 Lijiang studios, recidency Program, Lijiang, Yunnan, China

2001 The J. Paul Getty/CalArts Commission, Los Angeles, California

2000
Lannan Residency, Galisteo, NM.
Getty/Cal Arts commission, Los Angeles, CA.

 

1996
Friends of the Villa Aurora Fellowship Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA.
Oscar Barnack Award, World Press Award for Humanitarian Photography.

 

1995
DAAD Fellowship in Los Angeles and American Samoa.
Award of Kodak European Panorama of Young Photographers, Arles, France.

 

1994 Appointed to the German Society for Photography, DGPh.

 

1993
Price of Emma, Award for female journalism.
Award of Science, Honor for the best Masterwork in 1992, GHS Essen, Folkwang-School.

 

1991
Award of Kodak AG and Fellowship for the Masterwork.
Award for Photography as an Art, Pforzheim, Germany.

 

1990 Honor of Kodak AG, Nachwuchsforderpreis.

 

1989
Award of the German Consulate, Bonn, Germany.
Award of the German Ministry of Education and Science, Bonn, Germany.

 

PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS

 

2006

Spectacular City, Catalogue, NAI Publishers

Garten der Kunst, Skulpturenpark Graz Hatje Cantz, Germany

 

2005

10 Years Villa Aurora, Villa Aurora e.V., Berlin, Germany

Looking at Los Angeles DAP, New York, USA

 

2004 Karin Apollonia Muller, ARTnews, May

 

2003 A World In One City, Los Angeles Times, May 4

2002 L.A.Now Art Center College of Design/Pasadena Distributed by University of California Press

2001
Karin Apollonia Müller & Rodney Sappington, Angels in Fall: Karin Apollonia Müller, Hamburg, Germany, Kruse Verlag, 2001
Kim Zorn Caputo (ed.), Angels in Fall, Blind Spot, New York, USA, No 17, April/June
Choreography of Power, Kunstforum International, Ruppichteroth, Germany, No 153, January 2001, pp 135-36

 

2000
Angels in Fall, Exit, London, England, No 1, October 2000
Angels in Fall, Zoo, London, England, October 2000, pp 234-35
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler, Die Welt als Ganzes (exhibition catalogue), Berlin, Germany, Hatje Cantz, 2000, pp 104-106 Alena Williams, Karin Apollonia Müller, Art Issues, Los Angeles, California, USA, November 2000, p 46

1999 Art Issues

 

1998
Contemporary German Photography, Bookforum/Artforum, New York
Charles Arthur Boyer, News of the World's Happiness: The New German Photography, Art Press, Paris, France, No 232, February 1998, pp 25-30
Jodie Zellen, Angels in Fall, Art Scene, Los Angeles, California, May 1998

1997
Markus Rasp (ed.), Contemporary German Photography, Cologne, Germany, Taschen, 1997
Michael Althen, Wirklich (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Germany, Stadtmuseum Munich, 1997, pp 13-14, 48-54

 

1996
Das Deutsche Auge: Fotojournalismus in Deutschland (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Germany, Schirmer-Mosel, 1996

COLLECTIONS
Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
AXA Corporation, New York
Deutsche Bank Collection, New York
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
Howard Stein, The Joy of Giving Something, New York
IFA, Berlin, Germany
FRAC, Paris, France
Los Angeles County Museum, California
Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Mellon Financial Corporation, Pittsburgh
Museum of Modern Art, New York
New School University, New York
New York Public Library, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa