Christian Megert Biography
Christian Megert was born in Bern in 1936, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule art school from 1952 to 1956.
Traveling between Sweden, Germany and then Paris, Megert experiments with his artistic language starting from the first monochrome and, later through his kinetic works of 1959. Christian Megert's artistic research focuses on the use of light, movement and of the luminous reflection, concretized in the mirror as the primary artistic medium with which Megert created her first mirror work in 1960. In 1961 Megert wrote her Manifesto “Ein Neuer Raum” (A new space), the synthesis of her artistic research. Most of Christian Megert's works require public interaction and, similarly to the poetics of the other members of Gruppo Zero, the connection between art, life and everyday reality, fundamental elements of his work. Megert was the protagonist of numerous solo exhibitions, including that at the Galerie Kopke in Copenhagen in 1959, at the Galerie Kaspar in 1961 and again, in Lausanne in 1963. Megert took part extensively in the exhibitions of the Zero Group and those of Kinetic Art in Europe . His works can now be found in numerous private and public collections, including at the Musée des Beaux Arts in Montreal, the Progressive Museum in Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 1973 Christian Megert moved to Düsseldorf, where he taught until 2002 at the Kunstakademie. In recent years he created stone sculptures exhibited in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Vaduz. Christian Megert currently lives and works between Düsseldorf and Bern. Born in Bern in 1936, Switzerland, Christian Megert studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule art school from 1952 to 1956.
