Anton Janizewski
Anton Janizewski

Vincent Scheers

This and Thatness

24.10. – 29.11.25

Vincent Scheers, This and Thatness, 2025, exhibition views, photos by Julian Blum

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Can an object be the shadow of itself ?

This is the question Vincent Scheers seems to be asking in this exhibition.

 

For him, objects have long had a coefficient of danger. In his works their emotional and fictional charges are stretched to the maximum. Vincent Scheers has no intention of leaving objects in the tranquility of their banality. We often find ourselves facing his works like collectors in search of fetishes. The materials, shapes, and textures are familiar and peaceful, but suddenly everything seems to shift into the strange harshness of emptiness and anxiety. While his objects are not ready-mades, they are not simply sculptures either. They reflect our stories and some of our dreams or fears.

 

But can this danger be turned against the objects themselves? Can we put them at risk of their own definition, transforming them into fleeting shadows, frightening melancholic memories? In this series of new works, Vincent Scheers grants himself the right to pursue us into spaces that are as intimate as they are personal.

 

– Samuel Gross

Vincent Scheers, Het kompromis (The Compromise), 2025, modified wood table, 121 x 67 x 76 cm

Vincent Scheers, Workaholic, 2024, shovel, metal, soil, lacquer, 155 x 27 x 37 cm, courtesy of the artist, Paulina Caspari, Munich, photo by Produktion Pitz

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Vincent Scheers, How much my life has changed, and yet how unchanged it has remained, 2025, metal, twigs, taxidermy pigeon (streptopelia decaocto), 90 x 85 x 25 cm

Vincent Scheers, POV, 2025, wood, glass, 56 x 54 x 42 cm

Vincent Scheers, Untitled (Friends), 2025, wood, aluminum, videoplayer, screen, eurorack system, distance sensor, build-in speaker, 53 x 32 x 7 cm

Vincent Scheers, 1/2, 2025, wood, stones, 90 x 61 x 10 cm

Johana Lohr

After studying at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Vincent Scheers (*1990 in Duffel, Belgium) now lives and works in Munich. His works have been shown in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the UK, in museums and galleries like Paulina Caspari, Munich, Germany; Tom Reichstein Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany;  Circolo Lia Mostra d’Ert, Urtijëi, Italy; The Pool, Düsseldorf, Germany; as well as Kunstpavillon, Munich, Germany; Antwerp Tower, Antwerp, Belgium; Jacques Gorus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium.

 

In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious ars viva prize, granted annually to outstanding young artists by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. Associated with the prize, Scheers was part of the group exhibitions Ars Viva 2024 at Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany and ars viva 2025. Where will we land? at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. In the following year, Scheers will take part in an artist’s residency on Fogo Island, Canada.

 

Scheers was awarded numerous grants, prizes, and residencies, among them the Bayerische Atelierförderung (Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs), the Cultural Education Scholarship (Kulturreferat Munich, Germany), the diploma prize of the ADBK Munich 2023, an artist residency at Ventnor Botanic Garden, Ventnor, UK, Oskar-Karl-Forster-Scholarship and the Bayern Innovativ-Scholarship.

 

Recent solo exhibitions include The History of the Criminal at Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023; Grooming at Paulina Caspari, Munich, Germany, 2023; Natural access at Lucky, Peripheral Alliances by Kunstverein Munich, Inning am Ammersee, Germany, 2021; Auf ewig zum spucken verdammt/ Doomed to spit forever at Kunstverein Global Forest, St. Georgen, Germany, 2020; MAST at Forbidden City, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019; and A blind man crossing at Jos Joos, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.

Vincent Scheers

This and Thatness

24.10. – 29.11.25

Vincent Scheers, This and Thatness, 2025, exhibition views, photos by Julian Blum

On This and Thatness

Exhibition text

Ausstellungstext

Check List | Werkliste

Can an object be the shadow of itself ?

This is the question Vincent Scheers seems to be asking in this exhibition.

 

For him, objects have long had a coefficient of danger. In his works their emotional and fictional charges are stretched to the maximum. Vincent Scheers has no intention of leaving objects in the tranquility of their banality. We often find ourselves facing his works like collectors in search of fetishes. The materials, shapes, and textures are familiar and peaceful, but suddenly everything seems to shift into the strange harshness of emptiness and anxiety. While his objects are not ready-mades, they are not simply sculptures either. They reflect our stories and some of our dreams or fears.

 

But can this danger be turned against the objects themselves? Can we put them at risk of their own definition, transforming them into fleeting shadows, frightening melancholic memories? In this series of new works, Vincent Scheers grants himself the right to pursue us into spaces that are as intimate as they are personal.

 

– Samuel Gross

Vincent Scheers, Het kompromis (The Compromise), 2025, modified wood table, 121 x 67 x 76 cm

Vincent Scheers, Workaholic, 2024, shovel, metal, soil, lacquer, 155 x 27 x 37 cm, courtesy of the artist, Paulina Caspari, Munich, photo by Produktion Pitz

Anton Janizewski

Vincent Scheers, How much my life has changed, and yet how unchanged it has remained, 2025, metal, twigs, taxidermy pigeon (streptopelia decaocto), 90 x 85 x 25 cm

Vincent Scheers, POV, 2025, wood, glass, 56 x 54 x 42 cm

Vincent Scheers, Untitled (Friends), 2025, wood, aluminum, videoplayer, screen, eurorack system, distance sensor, build-in speaker, 53 x 32 x 7 cm

Vincent Scheers, 1/2, 2025, wood, stones, 90 x 61 x 10 cm

Johana Lohr

After studying at the Royal Academy of Antwerp, Belgium, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Vincent Scheers (*1990 in Duffel, Belgium) now lives and works in Munich. His works have been shown in Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the UK, in museums and galleries like Paulina Caspari, Munich, Germany; Tom Reichstein Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany;  Circolo Lia Mostra d’Ert, Urtijëi, Italy; The Pool, Düsseldorf, Germany; as well as Kunstpavillon, Munich, Germany; Antwerp Tower, Antwerp, Belgium; Jacques Gorus Foundation, Antwerp, Belgium.

 

In 2024, he was awarded the prestigious ars viva prize, granted annually to outstanding young artists by the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft im BDI e.V. Associated with the prize, Scheers was part of the group exhibitions Ars Viva 2024 at Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany and ars viva 2025. Where will we land? at Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany. In the following year, Scheers will take part in an artist’s residency on Fogo Island, Canada.

 

Scheers was awarded numerous grants, prizes, and residencies, among them the Bayerische Atelierförderung (Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs), the Cultural Education Scholarship (Kulturreferat Munich, Germany), the diploma prize of the ADBK Munich 2023, an artist residency at Ventnor Botanic Garden, Ventnor, UK, Oskar-Karl-Forster-Scholarship and the Bayern Innovativ-Scholarship.

 

Recent solo exhibitions include The History of the Criminal at Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2023; Grooming at Paulina Caspari, Munich, Germany, 2023; Natural access at Lucky, Peripheral Alliances by Kunstverein Munich, Inning am Ammersee, Germany, 2021; Auf ewig zum spucken verdammt/ Doomed to spit forever at Kunstverein Global Forest, St. Georgen, Germany, 2020; MAST at Forbidden City, Antwerp, Belgium, 2019; and A blind man crossing at Jos Joos, Brussels, Belgium, 2018.