Merle Vorwald

* 1980 (D)

Lives and works in Berlin (D) and Brussels (B).

MERLE VORWALD (*1980, Germany) is an independent artist-researcher and production designer based in Brussels and Berlin. Her artistic practice finds its form across fictional writing, spatial installations and online platforms. Through poetic condensation, her practices aim for reduced precision and her visual contexts create absurd beauty realms of glossy, Camp materialities and their imperfections. Through these she explores historical fringe characters, the inherent political of autobiographical matters and investigates the potentials of fragility in collective work structures. As production designer she articulates an aesthetic position between art house movies, video art and commercial productions in the German film industry. She is interested in the tension and humor these opposite poles can create and uses them for her design work. Her work is always collaborative and often connected to Belgium.

Link to the IKOB exhibition

Merle Vorwald, Dauergloss

Dauergloss, 2023

Merle Vorwald, Dauergloss

Dauergloss, 2023