I love listening. It is one of the only spaces where you can be still and moved at the same time. — Nayyirah Waheed — Tuesday November 18th — —

The idea is to die young as late as possible. — Ashley Montagu — Tuesday November 18th — —

“What art does — maybe what it does most completely — is tell us, make us feel that what we think we know, we don’t. There are whole worlds around us that we’ve never glimpsed.” Greil Marcus — Tuesday November 18th — —

Marlen Mueller

We first met the talented German photographer Marlen Mueller, and therefore became familiar with her work, when we visited the incredible Guggenheim Bilbao in 2013, as we were both invited to the extraordinary ‚Riotous Baroque’ exhibition. Marlen started photographing when she was a mere 12 years old, and after she turned double that age and finished her studies, she recently moved to Berlin to properly pursue a career in photography. The aesthetic one finds in her images has a natural feel, evoking a sentiment of serenity through the oftenly isolated subjects within the frames, using natural light in the best possible way through analog techniques. After having worked on several commissions this year in Germany’s capital, another one of the goals of Marlen was to start exhibiting her work, with her first solo-event taking place on the 27th of November in her new hometown. Whenever in Berlin make sure to visit!

German blog This is Jane Wayne on the work of Marlen:

The images she creates touch [Marlen] herself, she captures people and objects the way they intrinsically are in place and time, straight from her personal feeling at that particular moment.

Marlen Mueller is a freelance photographer with a focus in portrait, documentary and fashion. She was born in 1988 in Erfurt, in the East of Germany. In 2011 she graduated from the Bauhaus University Weimar in Media, Art and Design. She collects her motives in cities and landscapes beyond the atlantic ocean whereby her faszination for the american culture is based on a roadtrip through the USA. Currently she lives and works in Berlin. Her photographs have been published by Brownbook, Adult, Working Woman and Gymclass-Mag, among others.

Find the exhibition of Marlen’s beautiful work exhibited at the Greifswalderstrasse 202 in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin on the 27th of November, opening at 19:00.

For more information on the work of Marlen see here.