Christian Philipp Müller – Green Border.

For the 45th Venice Biennale in 1993, commissioner Peter Weibel invited Austrian artist Gerwald Rockenschaub to exhibit in the Austrian pavilion, proposing collaboration with non-Austrian artists as well. The invitations issued to Andrea Fraser (USA) and Christian Philipp Müller (Switzerland) broke the tradition of national competition that had been the guiding principle of the Venice Biennale since 1895. Rockenschaub occupied the central room of the pavilion and made this location the subject of his work; Müller and Fraser took the side wings. Fraser’s theme was the occasion, the Biennale itself, while Müller’s was the patron, the Austrian state.