Yves Scherer

Born in Switzerland, now based in New York. Yves Scherer has always been exploring the boundaries between reality and virtuality.

Scherer views life itself as a fantasy game: people’s words and deeds in the public, the image and personality they try to manage, the mediated and mutually controlled relationship between celebrities and the mass... His works are often triggered by real-life events, spanning gender identity, life experience, Hollywood culture, and public media that are ambiguously shelved between the real and the fantasized. Scherer locates and reproduces these illusions by creating visual traps, combinations of multiple materials and textures, flat and three-dimensional space, nature and digitalization, embodied by painting, photography, surreal sculpture, and installation. While his earlier works were mostly digital-analog image collages, later Scherer employs simple and unprocessed materials such as wood, grass, cloth, and faux fur. The experimental combination of such ma- terials has also crowned him one of the contemporary representatives of Arte Povera. The appliance of classic sculpture in Boy is also Scherer’s signature.  

Yves Scherer graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a degree in Sculpture. His works have been widely shown in art institutions around the world. Important solo/co exhibitions include: “Candids”, Kun- sthaus Grenchen, Grenchen, Switzerland (2020); “One more sleep”, Studio Hugo Opdal, Alesund, Norway (2020); “Sunset”, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, Germany(2019); “Primal”, Cassina Project, New York, US (2018); and “Honey Moon”, Swiss Institute, New York, US (2015). Important group exhibitions include: “Clear Objects, Like Lalique”, Ventanas Techo, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); “Jahresausstellung”, Kunstmusem Olten, Olten, Switerland (2019); “Sunset”, Kunstverein Wiesen, Wiesen, Germany (2019); “One more sleep, Studio Hugo Opdal, Alesund NO (2019); Swiss Performance Now, Kunsthalle Basel CH (2018); Hell is other people, Chambers Street, New York USA (2017); Whistles of Surfaces, Point Centre of Contemporary Art, Nicosia CY (2016); Swiss Art Awards, Basel CH (2015); and New Contemporaries, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London UK (2013). Besides, Scherer was awarded the 2015 Swiss Art Prize, as well as grants from the Board of Directors of the German Cultural Agency and the IAAB Beijing Travel Foundation.

Artworks

Exhibitions

  • Witch, Cub and Dream Hunter

    2020.11.10 - 2021.2.22