Olivia Müller (b. 2002) is a British-German multidisciplinary artist raised in Solihull, England. She is based between Birmingham and Edinburgh. She is in her final year studying towards a BA in Intermedia from the University of Edinburgh and has spent 6 months in 2023 on an international study exchange at UCLA. Müller has recently exhibited in exhibitions ‘Ain’t nobody got time for that’ and ‘The Fourth Wall’ at the University of Edinburgh (2023 and 2024), The Gallery Societies’ Show ‘Insight’ (2024) and also in The Gallery Societies’ Summer Show (2022) (supported by The University of Edinburgh, HEADACHE, thebox, The Hen Collective and Third Culture) and has worked as production designer for 2 short films supported by the Edinburgh Filmmaking Society (2021, 2022).
Müller’s work is an exploration of the human experience through the consideration of senses and the spaces she inhabits. By discussing ideas of belonging, identity, communication, self-actualisation, and memory, she draws on personal experiences to produce work that encourages reflection, presence, and connection. Her works are deeply encoded with personal memories and meaning, but simultaneously carve out space for the viewer within them. In her practice, Müller works with sound, video, printing, photography, painting, and installation to explore her physical surroundings and the sounds within them, to create works that offer space to explore the emotions evoked by the work.