Polaroids

Exhibition view, Milan 2020. Photo: Henrik Blomquist

Exhibition view, Amsterdam 2020. Photo: Michel Claus

Exhibition view, Arles 2019. Photo: Hanna Hildebrand

Like Sunlight Coming Through the Clouds was the title of the first exhibition that featured a wide selection from Robby Müller’s extensive archive of Polaroid photographs from the early 1970s to the late 1990s. The exhibition highlighted Müller’s ability to make iconic images that reflect not only his unique view of the world, but also his talent for creating something new and radiant. The same poetic sensibility is depicted in these captured silent moments as in his film images, which earned him the nickname “Master of Light”.

The exhibition, first on view in 2019 in Arles and then at various other places, was curated by Andrea Müller-Schirmer and supported by Annet Gelink Gallery.

↗ Paris, Marian Goodman Gallery
Mar 7 – April 27, 2024

↗ Milan, Case Chiuse
Sep 22, 2020 – Jan 25, 2021

↗ Amsterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery
Jun 26 – Aug 22, 2020

Rotterdam, International Film Festival
Jan 24 – 31, 2020

Arles, Rencontres d’Arles
Jul 1 – 31, 2019

Amsterdam Photos

Exhibition View, Annet Gelink Gallery 2023. Photo: Michel Claus

Exhibition View, Annet Gelink Gallery 2023. Photo: Michel Claus

Exhibition View, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam 2023 Photo: Hans Wilschut

What did Amsterdam look like through the eyes of Robby Müller? Capturing striking images was something he also did in Amsterdam, the city where he studied and where he lived from 1992 on. The book launch of Amsterdam Photos was accompanied by an exhibition of a selection of photographs from the book that were first released and on view at Annet Gelink gallery.

↗ Amsterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery
Feb 17 – March 4 2023

Furthermore, Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam was presenting prints of all the photographs and the texts from the series on the wall in the foyer of Cinema 1.

↗ Amsterdam, Eye Filmmuseum
Feb 17 – March 12 2023

Master of Light

Exhibition View, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam 2016. Photo: Hans Wilschut

Exhibition View, Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam 2016. Photo: Desiré van den Berg

Exhibition View, Kinemathek Berlin 2017.

The Robby Müller Archive constituted a substantial part of the major Robby Müller retrospective Robby Müller. Master of Light, organized and conceived by the EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, in 2016 and re-presented a year later at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin.
↗ ​More information about the exhibition Robby Müller. Master of Light  Master of Light

Berlin
Kinemathek, Jul 5 – Nov 5, 2017

Amsterdam
Eye Filmmuseum, Jun 4 – Sep 4, 2016