Birgit megerle biography channel

Safely nestled in the staid basement of the bucolic, modernist Kunsthaus Glarus, and shielded by the glass of a vitrine, are two small black and white photographs of the artist Merlin Carpenter. These belong to Birgit Megerle’s ‘Vitrinen’ series (2007–15), which chronicles her social and artistic milieu during those years.

Shot from above, lying down and wearing one of Megerle’s intricately painted garments, Carpenter’s blond wavy hair and meditative, mildly content expression lend soft support to the various roles assumed: muse, living canvas and critical dandy.

In ‘The Painted Veil’, Megerle’s solo debut in Switzerland, one such dress (Untitled, 2010) was displayed hovering mid-air, attached to a suspended fabric piece that doubled as a sensuous room divider in dusky pinks and grey (Untitled, 2015).

The hanging elegantly underscores the artist’s casual command of material as much as her avant-garde concept of painting as a practice that spills into and enw Birgit Megerle - artforum.com LARY