Vincent Scheers (b.1990) is a belgian artist living and working in Munich, whose mediums span painting, printmaking and sculpture. Scheers studied printmaking and fine Art at the Royal Academy of Antwerp. In 2023 he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. 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. The prize is associated with exhibitions at Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, DE, 2024), Haus der Kunst (Munich, DE, 2025), and an artist’s residency on Fogo Island (CA) in the following year.

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 even sets animals, plants and microorganisms in opposition to the human world by subjecting them to the logic of manmade systems. Philosophic paradigms on power and discipline inform Scheers’s research. A key thesis of his artistic practice thus posits that refracting institutionalized power through interspecies relations, exposes society’s prioritization of control over care.

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

Recent selected group exhibitions include ars viva 2025. Where will we land? at Haus der Kunst (Munich, DE, 2025), Ars Viva 2024 at Kunsthalle Bremen (Bremen, DE, 2024), Pivô Pesquisa at Pivô Residency center (Sao Paulo, BR, 2024), Fragrant Tissues at beacon (Munich, DE, 2023).