Vincent Scheers
About the Artist
Vincent Scheers (b.1990) is a Belgian artist living and working in Munich, whose work spans painting, printmaking, and sculpture. Scheers studied Printmaking and Fine Arts at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp. In 2023, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts Munich. In 2024, he was awarded the ars viva prize by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft.
In line with the philosophers’ Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s idea that “art begins with the animal,” the point of departure of Scheers’s artistic practice begins with human-animal relations. At times, his art sets animals, plants, and microorganisms in opposition to the human world by subjecting them to the logic of manmade systems. Philosophical paradigms on power and discipline inform Scheers’s research. A key thesis of his artistic practice posits that refracting institutionalized power through interspecies relations, exposes society’s prioritization of control over care.
Recent solo exhibitions include: This and Thatness (2025), Anton Janizewski, Berlin; The History of the Criminal (2023), Sharp Projects, Copenhagen; and Grooming (2023), Paulina Caspari, Munich. Recent selected group exhibitions include: ars viva 2025, Where will we land? at Haus der Kunst, Munich; ars viva 2024, Kunsthalle Bremen; Pivô Pesquisa (2024), Pivô, São Paulo; and Fragrant Tissues (2023) at beacon, Munich.
