Agnes Scherer

Agnes Scherer (born in 1985, Germany) lives and works in Salzburg and Berlin. She studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf with Peter Doig and Enrico David.

Scherer’s work develops unique forms of presentation by inscribing handmade artefacts into holistic theatrical frameworks. With her elaborate operettas – of which she writes the scenarios and participate in the conception of the music - and narrative installations, she creates complex pictorial work that resists immediate objectification and commodification, instead demanding from viewers a heightened level of focus and engagement. A persistent questioning that runs through her art- making aims at power relations and their underlying psychologies. Drawing from analyses of art history – the artist has studied it numerous years - anthropological and cultural history, Scherer adopts artistic strategies that originally served the consolidation of power through the hierarchy of representation and repurposes them with critical intent. Using anachronisms and projections, her work often illustrates the uncanny ways in which historical systems, economies and roles are reflected in the present.

Selected solo shows include ‘Savoir Vivre’ at Heidelberger Kunstverein (2023); ‘A thousand times yes’ at Sans titre, Paris (2022); ‘Fancies’ at PAGE (NYC), New York (2022); ‘The Notebook Simulations’ at Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf (2021); ‘My refuge, my treasure, without body, without measure’ at ChertLüdde, Berlin (2021); ‘Coeurs Simples’ at Sans titre, Paris (2020); ‘ORLANDO TUSSAUD’ at Philipp Haverkampf, Berlin (2019).
In June 2023, the artist will have a solo presentation at Art Basel in the Statements section with Sans titre, Paris.

Agnes Scherer’s first operetta “Cupid and the Animals”, was awarded the Nigel Greenwood Art Prize in 2015 and performed in, among other places, the Museum Ludwig in Cologne (2017) and TRAMPS in New York (2018). In 2019, her second elaborate work within this format, “The Teacher”, was presented by Kinderhook & Caracas in Berlin, at Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich (2020) and recently in Italy for the festival ART CITY Bologna (2023). Also in 2020, Scherer presented the first part of her third operetta project “The Salty Testament” at 1646 in The Hague. The artist’s narrative installation “The Very Hungry” at the Berlin project space Horse & Pony was granted the Berlin Art Prize (2019).

Agnes Scherer’s works are featured in the permanent collections of important institutions and museums, including FRAC Champagne-Ardenne; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; KOLUMBA Museum, Cologne and Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster in Aachen.

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exhibition view, Savoir Vivre, 2023, Heidelberger Kunstverein
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exhibition view, Savoir Vivre, 2023, Heidelberger Kunstverein
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exhibition view, Savoir Vivre, 2023, Heidelberger Kunstverein
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exhibition view, Savoir Vivre, 2023, Heidelberger Kunstverein
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exhibition view, Antéfutur, 2023, CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
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exhibition view, Fancies, 2022, PAGE (NYC), New York
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Trousseau dérangé, 2022, felt tip marker, liquid ink, gouache and color pencil on paper, 208 x 190.5 x 127 cm, unique
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exhibition view, Fancies, 2022, PAGE (NYC), New York
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Dark Bonheur, 2022, felt tip marker on paper, 69.8 x 99.6 cm, unique
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Paris-Salzburg, 2022, felt tip marker and pencil on paper, 50 x 69.8 cm, unique
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Trousseau dérangé (detail), 2022, felt tip marker, liquid ink, gouache and color pencil on paper, 208 x 190.5 x 127 cm, unique
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Riding Glove, 2022, felt tip marker and pencil on paper, 29.8 x 28 cm, unique
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exhibition view, A thousand times yes, 2022, Sans titre, Paris
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A thousand times yes, 2022, plaster gauze, plaster, acrylic paint, fabric, paper, variable dimensions, unique
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exhibition view, A thousand times yes, 2022, Sans titre, Paris
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A thousand times good night, 2022, plaster gauze, plaster, canvas, acrylic paint, ribbons, paper, variable dimensions, unique
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A thousand times good night (detail), 2022, plaster gauze, plaster, canvas, acrylic paint, ribbons, paper, variable dimensions, unique
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Say it with flowers, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 99 x 140 cm, unique
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So much more than words can say, 2022, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 68.5 cm, unique
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Without title (replica of the artist’s bed), 2022, paper, painted with ink and light resistant felt tip markers, 193 x 135 x 190 cm, exhibition view, Spirits, 2022, LORE DEUTZ, Cologne
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exhibition view, The Notebook Stimulations, 2021, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf. © Mareike Tocha
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Der Perseidenschauer, 2021, wood sculpture, painting, 214 x 330 cm (screen) / 214 x 330 cm (keyboard), unique. © Mareike Tocha
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exhibition view, The Notebook Stimulations, 2021, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf. © Mareike Tocha
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Ganzheit ist träumende Halbheit III, 2021, wood sculpture, painting on canvas (cut in 2 parts), 214 x 175 cm (screen cut in two, each part) / 214 x 175 (keyboard cut in two, each part), unique. © Mareike Tocha
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Ganzheit ist träumende Halbheit III (detail), 2021. © Mareike Tocha
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exhibition view, The Notebook Stimulations, 2021, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf. © Mareike Tocha
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Plan B(ernand), 2021, wood sculpture, painting on canvas, wall painting, 214 x 330 cm (screen) / 214 x 330 cm (keyboard), unique. © Mareike Tocha
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Smile (Les Pleurantes), 2021, wood sculpture, painting on canvas, wall painting, 214 x 600 cm (screen) / 214 x 600 cm (keyboard), unique. © Mareike Tocha
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exhibition view, The Notebook Stimulations, 2021, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf. © Mareike Tocha
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exhibition view, My refuge, my treasure, without body, without measure, 2021, ChertLüdde, Berlin
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exhibition view, My refuge, my treasure, without body, without measure, 2021, ChertLüdde, Berlin
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exhibition view, My refuge, my treasure, without body, without measure, 2021, ChertLüdde, Berlin
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exhibition view, Coeurs simples, 2020, Sans titre, Paris
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Coeurs simples, 2020, mixed media installation, various dimensions, unique
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Coeurs simples (detail), 2020, mixed media installation, various dimensions, unique
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Coeurs simples (detail), 2020, mixed media installation, various dimensions, unique
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exhibition view, Coeurs simples, 2020, Sans titre, Paris
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exhibition view, Coeurs simples, 2020, Sans titre, Paris
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Sudden idea for a poem, 2020, acrylic on canvas, painted wooden frame, 51 x 70 cm, unique
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Baby, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 104 x 32 cm, unique
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Baby (detail), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 75 x 104 x 32 cm, unique
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The guilded nut, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 214 x 167 cm, unique
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In Luck (1), 2020, gouache and acrylic on convex plaster gauze object, 27 x 10 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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exhibition view, The Salty Testament, 2020, 1646, The Hague
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performance view, The Teacher, 2020, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
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performance view, The Teacher, 2020, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
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exhibition view, The Teacher, 2020, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
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performance view, The Teacher, 2020, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
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exhibition view, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
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Gegenstände, 2019, pencil on paper, 80 x 59.5 cm, unique
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Inaktiver Zeichenarm mit Motiven, die ohne dessen Zutun entstanden, 2017, pencil on paper, 83 x 59.5 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Very Hungry, 2019, Horse & Pony, Berlin
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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Urlaub mit Schildpattmaske (Schweiz) / Holiday with tortoiseshell mask (Switzerland), 2019, acrylic, dispersion on canvas, 165 x 129 cm
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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exhibition view, ORLANDO TUSSAUD, 2019, Philipp Haverkampf Galerie, Berlin
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1991 (HotYoke), 2019, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 268 x 138 cm, unique
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exhibition view, The Teacher, 2019, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin
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performance view, The Teacher, 2019, featuring Soya Arakawa, Tobias Textor, and Claudia Barth, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Teacher, 2019, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin
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exhibition view, The Teacher, 2019, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2018, TRAMPS, New York
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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performance view, Cupid and the Animals, 2017, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

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