Henriette Müller (born 1961 in Ulm, Germany) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Henriette Müller’s abstract layered paintings in various media mirror the fragility and instability of our seemingly certain reality.
As in her music, she is guided by intuition and a sense of inner freedom.

In addition to colours and shapes she creates depth and textures through materials such as gauze, sand, gold leaf or historical textiles.

A wanderer between creative fields, her extended travels in India, Africa and Australia have contributed to the contents and palette of her work.

Australian Aboriginal art, Katharina Grosse, Gyalwa Longchenpa, Claude Monet, Gerhard Richter, Emil Schumacher, and all kinds of music provide inspiration to her.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

1992-1994Master of Music at Manhattan School of Music in New York in jazz saxophone performance and composition
1985-2017
Training in intaglio with René van Kempen (Amsterdam) and Prof. Walter Dohmen (Akademie Kloster Steinfeld 2013 to 2015, Akademie Schloss Rotenfels 2017)
1983-1997
Training in lithography with Stephan Keller (Frankfurt, Europäische Akademie Trier)
1980-1987Study of medicine in Mainz and Berlin (Germany), Zambia and Zimbabwe


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Since 2013Free lance artist, member of the artist group Kunstetagen Pankow (KEP) from 2013 to 2017
2007-2012 Part-time medical doctor and extended travels in India

1989-2006Saxophonist and composer in Europe and the USA
1987-1988Medical doctor in the U.K.
Cover of catalouge of exhibition, intaglio and lithography, showing the dry point etching The wheel, Kaltnadelradierung, Tiefdruck, Lithographie
foto of Henriette Müller, tenor saxophone, online release, Lonely Woman by Ornette Coleman, foto by Ralf Rapude, live recording 1994

Cover online release Lonely Woman
photo: Ralf Rapude

EXHIBITIONS (SOLO):

2025-2026Verwandlungen (Transformations), Kunstpunkt Schleusenhaus, Stade 
 with sculptor Sonja Keppler (07.12.2025 – 01.02.2026)

2025Ohne Grenzen (Without limits), Galerie Hahnentor, Stade

2020Meditation, online exhibition: Soundtrack and visuals by Müller, duration 10:14 minutes
2017In Auflösung (Dissolution), Artist Homes, Berlin
2017Gesamtkunstwerk with projection of paintings, music composed by Müller, performed by Claudio Puntin and Felix Henkelhausen and texts read by the artist during the exhibition Dissolution

2017Druckgraphik aus drei Jahrzehnten (Three decades of prints), gallery of the society KulturLandschaft Spree, Hartmannsdorf near Berlin


EXHIBITIONS (GROUP, SELECTION):

2017Tischlein deck dich (Wishing table), with the artist group KEP, Artist Homes, Berlin

2016Querschnitt (Cross section), Villa Kult, Berlin
2016Kunst aus dem Kiez (Art from the neighbourhood), with Christiane Burger, Manfred Koch and Marina Schmiechen, Remise Steglitz, Berlin
2014Werkschau, artist group KEP, Berlin
2013Werkschau (group show), artist group KEP, Berlin


PUBLICATIONS IN PRINT AND SHEET MUSIC:

2021Time out for the mind. Paintings and a reflection on meditation

116 pages, 42 in colour, 8 x 8 inches

Hard cover (thread stitching on 170g paper)

German edition: 

Kopfurlaub. Malerei und ein Exkurs zum Thema Meditation

120 pages, 42 in colour, 20,3 x 20,3 cm

Hard cover (thread stitching on 170g paper)
2017In Auflösung – Malerei (Dissolution – paintings)
 Catalogue of the exhibition at Artist Homes, Berlin (in German)

With contributions by art historian Juliana Hellmundt

72 pages, 28,5 x 26 cm
2017Druckgraphik aus drei Jahrzehnten (Three decades of prints)

Catalogue of the exhibition in Hartmannsdorf near Berlin (in German)

48 pages, 21 x 21 cm
2002Three Dances, Meerfrieden, Snake Dance for soprano saxophone and bass, Florian Noetzel Verlag Ars Musica, Wilhelmshaven


Im Antlitz des Todes (In the face of death) for mixed choir a capella, text by May Ayim, Florian Noetzel Verlag
Since 1990More than 100 self-published compositions for small and large ensembles – see compositions


CDs:

2025The Wheel, digital release of live recording from 2017 on Bandcamp
2024Lonely Woman, digital release of live recording from 1994 on Bandcamp
2004Snake Dance, Konnex Records KCD 5130
2002Silberne Lachtränen, BOS.REC.209-01
1996Memories of a Swan Song, Konnex Records KCD 5072
Book cover, Henriette Müller: Time out for the mind, paintings and a reflection on meditation, 2021, showing the painting Ultramarine, colour fields
catalogue cover of exhibition: Henriette Müller In Auflösung (Dissolution), paintings, showing the Painting For R.B., oil and historic work shirts on wood
CD cover Snake Dance, Konnex Records, 2004, music composed by and with Henriette Müller featuring Marika Gejrot, Simon Pauli, Johannes Bockholt


AWARDS:

1992Scholarship by the Berlin Senate of Cultural Affairs (personal jazz scholarship)
1979First price in the sculpture competition of the Volkshochschule Ulm, Germany