Marlie Mul
Book Launch With Readings by Marlie Mul, Frank Wasser and Eilidh Duffy
Thursday 23 July 6.30–9pm
Doors 6.30pm
Conversation and Readings by Marlie Mul, Frank Wasser and Eilidh Duffy 7pm
Flat Time House is pleased to host the London launch of Marlie Mul, the first comprehensive monograph on the artist's work.
This event will include conversation and readings by Marlie Mul, Frank Wasser and Eilidh Duffy.
Recently published on the occasion of Marlie Mul's solo exhibition Das Budget (2025) at Kunsthaus Glarus, the book brings together an extensive chronological overview of key bodies of work from the early 2000s to the present and traces an evolving network of contexts, collaborations, and modes of production.
The publication features new texts by Annie Goodner, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, and Frank Wasser; a conversation between the artist and editor Melanie Ohnemus; and reprints of texts that have accompanied Mul's work over the years, including writings by the artist herself.
In the editor's words, the monograph takes on a dynamic form: "a book in which works, contexts, and voices remain in motion, and in which an artistic practice emerges, shaped by a keen sensitivity to material, spatial thinking, and an ongoing engagement with working conditions, value systems, and forms of collectivity."
Photo: Kunstdokumentation
Marlie Mul is published by Distanz Verlag in collaboration with Kunsthaus Glarus, edited by Melanie Ohnemus, and designed by Sabo Day.
Fomat: 24 x 30 cm
Pages: 216 pages, softcover with flaps
ISBN: 978-3-95476-865-3
Publishing date: April 2026
Marlie Mul
Marlie Mul’s artistic practice is situated somewhere between sculpture, painting, print, fashion, distribution, writing, experiments in branding, the social, the flimsy and the virtual. References to states of flowing, liquidity, and oozing recur throughout the artist’s work, both formally and metaphorically. Her works are intricately fabricated while retaining a pronounced DIY character.
In May 2017, Marlie Mul publicly cancelled a solo exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) in Glasgow, due to untenable working conditions, which prompted the promotion of said cancellation inside the galleries of the museum itself. In the aftermath, she co-initiated the counter-institutional fanzine ground together with writer and poet Harry Burke, and published the book CANCELLED in 2018. With the project PMS, she explores a form of ‘branding-drag,’ using the accessible format of the T-shirt as a tool for circulating images and visualising community, with the brand taking the human body’s hormonal fluctuations as its theme. On an irregular, leisurely schedule she runs HERMANY, a nomadic project space that seeks to blur the specificity of exhibition audiences by continuously varying its content, medium and location.
Marlie Mul was previously included in the FTHo group exhibition Gone Fishing in 2022.
Eilidh Duffy
Eilidh Duffy is a writer, editor and historian. She is obsessed with fashionable dress and its relationship to social and political upheaval. Her work has appeared in style and culture titles across the UK, US and Europe and formerly held the position of Senior Writer at I-D. She holds an MA in the History of Design from the V&A/RCA and has experience editing print publications and working on commercial and editorial cultural research projects, all the while editing the research-heavy, digital magazine turned blog, Bog.
Frank Wasser
Dr Frank Wasser is an Irish artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans performance and critical theory. His work examines institutional power structures, authorship, and the politics of art production, often challenging the implicit conventions and frameworks that shape contemporary art discourse, pedagogies and theoretical paradigms.
He has exhibited and performed widely across London and Europe, including at Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Jerwood Arts, Salzburger Kunstverein, The Bluecoat, BALTIC, MoMA, Palais de Tokyo, The National Sculpture Factory, PEER, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, and CCA Derry~Londonderry.
Photo: Kunstdokumentation
Photo: Kunstdokumentation
Photo: Kunstdokumentation
Photo: Kunstdokumentation
Photo: Kunstdokumentation