Regina Möller - also named Regina Maria Möller - is a German artist, author and educator based in Berlin, Germany. She is the founder of the magazine regina and the label embodiment. Her working method is conceptual, context oriented and involves a wide range of media and material formats interweaving complex stories. Thus, her art works are not easily categorized in one or the other genre, and rather challenge the boundaries of artistic formats to create spaces that are interlinked with a variety of disciplines to open new perspectives.
In 1994 she founded the magazine regina – which achieved international acknowledgement. It is an artwork / artistic research project in printed matter format. regina is an adaptation of
the format of popular women’s fashion, life style magazines and their notion of everyday life. Her magazine includes the familiar sections of fashion, work, home & garden, recipes,
partnership, but through subtle shifts she undermines the mainstream construction and it becomes evident how this everyday is dealt with quite differently.
In the same year Möller launched the label embodiment, under which she produces artworks that relate to "Bekleidung" – clothing / shelter, interior design. She creates "sculptures" that can be used or worn. The works of embodiment are situated between the contexts of art and design but also between the body and the environment - the second skin. This allows Möller to explore the role & function of art while also investigating the social, cultural and environmental traces that are interwoven in the very textiles, garments and patterns.
Her solo-exhibitions are often multi-layered installations with a topic. She both carefully considers all elements of the existing space to avoid large architectural reconfigurations and to best build up a non-linear narrative, allowing the audience multiple perspectives, readings and perceptions. In some of the installations the audience is even a part of the narrative.
The projects and works of Regina Maria Möller have been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally in solo and group shows in venues including 45th Venice
Biennial; Manifesta 1, Rotterdam; 3rd Berlin Biennial; NTU Center for Contemporary Art (NTU/CCA), Singapore; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek; Tate Liverpool: Moderna Museet Projekt,
Stockholm; Wiener Secession, Vienna; Sprengel Museum Hannover; Tate St. Ives; Kunstverein München, Munich; Kunstverein Graz; Tensta konsthall, Stockholm; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
(mumok), Vienna, Passerelle - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brest, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore (CCA), among others. 2012 Möller co-curated ZERO 1 San Jose Biennial, Silicon Valley /
USA. In March 2020 when the Corona pandemic struck Europe Möller took part in a research project "The Mask – Arrayed" hosted by the Max Planck Institute for history of science, Berlin, which is
ongoing.
Her works are international in private and public collections.
Aside from her artistic practice she has given workshops, talks, and took part in conferences As well Möller has been in leading positions, running programs
at academies and she taught as professor and guest professor at renowned universities such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge/Boston; Nanyang Technological University
(NTU), Singapore; and at art academies such as the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm (KKH), the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of
Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway; the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) among others.