Lone Mertz – Collaboration, Life-Process Art, and Curatorial Practice
Lone Mertz is a Danish postwar and contemporary artist who, since the 1970s, has been engaged in life-process-based art, unconfined by fixed media or singular strategies. She is particularly known for her long-standing collaboration with Albert Mertz – from their first joint projects in the mid-1970s until his death in 1990 – as well as for curating significant exhibitions within the experimental Stalke Out Of Spaceprogram during the 1990s and early 2000s.
In 2011, she curated The Transparent Mirrorat Stalke Galleri in Kirke Saaby, bringing together both well-known and lesser-known works by Albert Mertz into a unified installation with philosophical and poetic undertones. A notable work in her own practice is the glass coffin she created on Glænø Beach in 1993, later reinstalled at an altitude of 4,400 meters in a Tibetan temple – a powerful symbolic continuation of Albert Mertz’s red-and-blue conceptual investigations.
