The internationally famous Berlin artist Wolfgang Müller (b. 1957) is one of the defining figures of the West Berlin art scene of the second postwar generation. After studying at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, from the beginning of the 1980s he had a big influence on the art and music scene in Berlin, including with the artists’ group Die Tödliche Doris. This group, which existed until 1987, combined in a prototypical way pop music, avant-garde, and an intermedia-inclined art practice and produced a diverse and extensive oeuvre.

The music video Das Lügenmeer (Sea of Lies) (1987) not only offers insight into the diverse work of this artists’ group but also represents an important document of forms of artistic approach to video technology that can be specifically localized in the 1980s. Hommage an Allen Jones (1984/2014) shows a performance by Wolfgang Müller with Tabea Blumenschein, Käthe Kruse, and Nikolaus Utermöhlen in the Kitchen in New York. It presents furniture sculpture by the British artist Allen Jones, which became better known in the 1970s thanks to Gunter Sachs.