Simon Mullan (he/him) was born in Kiel in 1981 and lives and works in Berlin. Trained in Brigitte Kowanz's class for experimental transmedia visual and installation art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2001–07) and in video art at the Royal University College of Fine Art Stockholm (2008–09), Mullan's practice moves between installation, video, sculpture and textile, treating space as a surface that can be read, worn and entered.
Materials from craft, labour and youth culture, such as tiles, workers' overalls and bomber jackets, recur in the work as abstract portraits of a social world. In the series Popularis and Die Fuge, galleries become fully tiled rooms that turn attention from the glossy surface to the joint between things. Blaumänner (2017–18) transposes the blue overall into framed textile works about the blurred line between work and leisure.
Most recently, chronos (2025) assembled 29 video works made between 2004 and 2014, shot on MiniDV, into a film installation of wall-mounted screens, monitor towers and a surrounding score. Those years also included Mullan's work with people with disabilities and with refugees, which shaped the political edge of the practice.
Mullan has shown at Belenius Nordenhake (Stockholm), Belmacz (London) and the Haubrock Foundation (Berlin), and in screenings at the Centre Pompidou and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. At TUM, Mullan teaches Space as Interface in the winter semester 2026/27.