In Progress
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation's website and digital catalogue raisonné are under development, with content added continuously.
Christian Megert
Born in Bern in 1936, he is considered one of the most inventive figures in post-war European art. As a member of the ZERO movement, he redefined the potential of materials and spaces by using mirrors and glass to dissolve the boundary between artwork and environment.
His reflective surfaces act as instruments of transformation, folding the viewer into the work and multiplying perspectives to open up a field in which perception itself becomes the subject.
Franziska Megert
Born in Thun in 1950, she is a pioneering figure in Swiss video art. Since the 1970s, she has expanded the vocabulary of the moving image by combining video, installation and performance to explore perception, identity and the shifting boundaries between reality and its represented forms.
Her works encourage viewers to become immersed and reflect, creating spaces where images and viewers are constantly interacting. In Franziska Megert’s practice, technology becomes both a tool and a subject — a way of questioning how we see and how seeing influences our self-perception.
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation is established in 2025 to preserve, document, and share the artistic legacy of two remarkable Swiss artists.
Christian Megert and Franziska Megert create rich and distinctive bodies of work, each following an individual creative path. Their oeuvres include paintings, objects, installations, works on paper, multimedia projects, and extensive archival material.
A central mission of the foundation is the maintenance of the catalogues raisonnés of both artists. These comprehensive online resources bring together artworks, exhibition histories, writings, photographs, and other documents, offering researchers, curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts an authoritative source of information.
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation is established in 2025 to preserve, document, and share the artistic legacy of two remarkable Swiss artists.
Christian Megert and Franziska Megert create rich and distinctive bodies of work, each following an individual creative path. Their oeuvres include paintings, objects, installations, works on paper, multimedia projects, and extensive archival material.
A central mission of the foundation is the maintenance of the catalogues raisonnés of both artists. These comprehensive online resources bring together artworks, exhibition histories, writings, photographs, and other documents, offering researchers, curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts an authoritative source of information.
The Christian and Franziska Megert Foundation is established in 2025 to preserve, document, and share the artistic legacy of two remarkable Swiss artists.
Christian Megert and Franziska Megert create rich and distinctive bodies of work, each following an individual creative path. Their oeuvres include paintings, objects, installations, works on paper, multimedia projects, and extensive archival material.
A central mission of the foundation is the maintenance of the catalogues raisonnés of both artists. These comprehensive online resources bring together artworks, exhibition histories, writings, photographs, and other documents, offering researchers, curators, collectors, and art enthusiasts an authoritative source of information.
..."der spiegel gibt mir alles zurück, was ich verloren habe... er eröffnet mir einen neuen raum, den raum der unbeschränkten möglichkeiten. ...es soll darin immer nur das zu sehen sein, was ich liebe und was ich sehen will."...
..."The mirror gives me back everything I've lost... It opens up a new space for me, the space of unlimited possibilities. ...It should only ever show what I love and what I want to see."...
1960
Franziska Megert
Interindividuelle Unterschiede
Interindividual Differences
3,5´, b/w, 1982
Franziska Megert
Interindividuelle Unterschiede
Interindividual Differences
3,5´, b/w, 1982
News
VERNISSAGE
“CHRISTIAN MEGERT – SPIEGELBILDER”
Video
Cadoro Centre for Art and Science55129 Mainz
CHRISTIAN MEGERT
“FARBRAUM” – AN EDITION AND AN EXPERIMENT
Fils Fine Arts
Grünstraße 15, in DüWell
40212 Düsseldorf
Christian Megert
Early Works from the 1950, 60s from Paris and Berne
Dierking, Galerie am Paradeplatz
Bleicherweg 38001 Zurich
30. Nov 2024
Immersion. The Origins, 1949 - 1969
Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts
Place de la Gare 161003, Lausanne
Christian Megert
Christian Megert
"ON THE WAY TO THE MIRROR..."
Conversation between Beat Wismer and Christian Megert on October 19, 2024 on the occasion of the Zurich exhibition “Christian Megert - Early Works of the 1950s from Paris and Bern” (only in German)
"ON THE WAY TO THE MIRROR..."
Conversation between Beat Wismer and Christian Megert on October 19, 2024 on the occasion of the Zurich exhibition “Christian Megert - Early Works of the 1950s from Paris and Bern” (only in German)
Catalogue raisonne
The Foundation is compiling the catalogues raisonnés of Christian and Franziska Megert, together with comprehensive archives documenting their works, provenance, exhibitions, literature, and related
Christian Megert’s catalogue will cover his mirror objects, reliefs, installations, drawings, and collages, while Franziska Megert’s will trace her pioneering work in video, media art, installation, and performance.
The printed editions are planned for release in the coming years.
Catalogue raisonne
The Foundation is compiling the catalogues raisonnés of Christian and Franziska Megert, together with comprehensive archives documenting their works, provenance, exhibitions, literature, and related
Christian Megert’s catalogue will cover his mirror objects, reliefs, installations, drawings, and collages, while Franziska Megert’s will trace her pioneering work in video, media art, installation, and performance.
The printed editions are planned for release in the coming years.
The Foundation is compiling the catalogues raisonnés of Christian and Franziska Megert, together with comprehensive archives documenting their works, provenance, exhibitions, literature, and related
Christian Megert’s catalogue will cover his mirror objects, reliefs, installations, drawings, and collages, while Franziska Megert’s will trace her pioneering work in video, media art, installation, and performance.
The printed editions are planned for release in the coming years.
Selected Works