christian megert

born 1936, Bern, Switzerland

The ceremonial opening of the exhibition takes place on Thursday 5th of June 2025 at 6PM in the premises of Závodný Gallery in Mikulov.

Christian Megert explores the fragile interdiscipliary interface between architecture and art, makes both specializations communicative, disrupts estabhlished contextures.

The beginnings of Megert´s work are associated with kineticism, together with Zero group he realized enviromental projects in the form of kinetic and light objects, shaping new meanings and offering stimuli for interpretaion by the observer.

The central artistic design medium and material in Christian Megert's work is the mirror, used as an art object from 1959. Mirrors can be utilised as small and large-format fragments, as clear surfaces or asymmetrical shards. The resulting mirror reflections constantly create new viewing possibilities, new spaces and expand reality.

Christian Megert and ZERO

Together with Heinz Mack, Otto Piene and Günther Uecker, Christian Megert is one of the main representatives of the legendary artist movement ZERO (1958-66). Until the end of the 1960s, ZERO was an internationally influential avant-garde movement and an active network of important artists. Düsseldorf became the base of ZERO visions.

Christian Megert met Heinz Mack in Paris in 1958, the year ZERO was founded. His contact with ZERO intensified in 1960. Christian Megert took part in the exhibitions of the artists of the ZERO movement with mirror objects, environments and kinetic works. In 1962, Christian Megert organised ZERO exhibitions in Switzerland.

Christian Megert at the Závodný Gallery

The exhibition of Christian Megert at the Závodný Gallery was initiated by Mr. Hans-Peter Riese, the curator of the exhibition. His vision was to create a disturbing consonance between minimalist inner space of the gallery, Megert´s art works created last 50 years and historical context of an oldfashion medieval and jewish town.

The exhibition is not a real retrospective. The concept could be perceived as an specific personal choice of a perceptive, senzitive and cultivated curator, who knows exactly what should be shown…. In the installation you can observe the life artistic way of a legend with all the small changes and schifts in an unique mode of understanding and creating art visions.