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Language: English
Location: Residenzplatz 10, 5020 Salzburg

A new series of Till Megerle’s drawings shows grotesq human figures tangled and wedged together, against a background of German suburban gardens. The protagonists’ gender, intention and style of clothing are all equally equivocal. In mediaeval costume or dressed as rappers, the figures alternate between violence and carnivalesque exuberance. Corporeality and social dynamics are also portrayed in other series by Megerle. The vocabulary he uses in his drawing comes from the Renaissance, 19th-century caricature and other styles. Parallel to the contentual level, this openness to diversestyles of drawing raises questions about the medium of drawing: when you draw, how do you speak – and who is speaking?
Till Megerle, born in Bayreuth (DE) in 1979, lives in Vienna and Berlin. Until 2010 he studied at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts (DE) and the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. His works – in drawing, photography and video – are often structured as series, and revolve around topics such as body images, pop culture and (German) history. The stylistic appropriations in his drawings range from the Renaissance to 19th-century caricature.

Solo exhibitions
2017 Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. 2016 Till Megerle, San Felice, San Felice (IT). 2015 Donkeys, 21er Haus, Vienna. Baireuth, Kunstverein Freiburg (DE). 2014 Till Megerle, Studio 2o46, Berlin. HALLUX, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen. 2013 Till Megerle, Diana Lambert, Vienna. 2012 Till Megerle, Center, Berlin. Till Megerle, curated by Diana Lambert, L’Ocean Licker, Vienna.

Group exhibitions
2016 Formen des Auswurfs, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz (AT). 2015 William Arnold, New York. 48 Drawings, Spike Berlin. NOUSMOULES (with Michael Franz), Vienna. 2014 Art Book Weekend, Demon’s Mouth, Oslo. Notes from Underground, Baba Vasa’s Cellar, Sofia. 2013 Die Schlange Hoffnung, Kunstbunker Hintereingang, Nuremberg (DE). 2011 Till Megerle, Dominik Sittig, Der diagnostische Trieb, Valerie Prekär, Berlin. 2010 Keine Entfernungen zu überwinden zwischen Fragesteller und Antwortgeber, Kunstverein Harburger Bahnhof, Hamburg (DE).

Publications
“Till Megerle: Baireuth”, in: Camera Austria, 130, 2016.
Max Henry, “Till Megerle”, in: Spike Art Quarterly, 46, 2015/2016.
Till Megerle, Dominik Sittig, INVOLTE, Textem Verlag, Hamburg, 2013.
Marc Prince, “Till Megerle”, in: Frieze, 150, October 2012.
“Till Megerle: o.T., 2011”, in: Déjà Vu, Zeitschrift ohne Namen, 21, 2012.
Frauke Boggasch, Dominik Sittig, ELEND, Verlag für moderne Kunst, Nuremberg 2006.

Cinematography/camera
2 A.M., 2016, directed by Loretta Fahrenholz.
Group Admits Mistake, 2016, directed by Michael Franz.
My Throat, My Air, 2013, directed by Loretta Fahrenholz.
Ditch Plains, 2013, directed by Loretta Fahrenholz.

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Till Megerle