b. 1985, Germany
Agnes Scherer (b. 1985, Lohr am Main, Germany) lives and works in Berlin and Salzburg. She studied painting at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf and is currently a professor of Painting at Mozarteum University Salzburg. Scherer has exhibited internationally with recent solo presentations including Ein seltsames Spiel, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen (2023); Savoir Vivre, Heidelberger Kunstverein (2023); The Notebook Simulations, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021); The Salty Testament, Residency, 1646, The Hague (2020); The Teacher, Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich (2020); The Very Hungry, Horse & Pony, Berlin (2019); Cupid and the Animals, TRAMPS, New York (2018) and Cupid and the Animals, TRAMPS, London (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Atopia I, dacodac, Zurich (2024); Antéfur, CAPC Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2023); Spirits, Lore Deutz - Atelierhaus Kunstwerk Köln e.V., Cologne (2022); Labor, CAL (Centre d’Archive Laïque), Charleroi (2022); Omnibus - 10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas, Kinderhook & Caracas, Berlin (2022); and MASKULINITÄTEN, Kunstverein Düsseldorf (2019). Her work is held in various public collections including FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; Sigg Art Foundation; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; KOLUMBA Museum, Cologne; and Kunsthaus NRW Kornelimünster, Aachen.