Reinhard Mucha

Reinhard Mucha, *1950, lives and works in Düsseldorf
The work of Mucha, who was born in Düsseldorf, is internationally well known since the 1980s by a number of acclaimed exhibitions. Among other things the artist did the German pavilion at the 44th Venice Biennale and participated in the 1992 and 1997 documenta in Kassel. One of his main works, the “Deutschlandgerät” (German machine) is permanently on view in the Kunstsammlung NRW/K21. Today he is one of the most important artists of his generation. His works consists of meticulously constructed sculptures and installations as well as of extensive gouache and collage series, as The sculptures - often made from found furniture that has been charged with history through previous use, from
Industrial materials or archives - sometimes appear like showcases or display cases, sometimes stage-like and baroque. Mucha’s works resist a quick access, influences of Minimal art can supposedly be identified, with whose regular objecthood he breaks again in the next moment, when he for example installs old radios or uses the monument of the Berlin Airlift.