Jennifer Merlyn Scherler

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

2025 Aeschlimann Corti Foundation Scholarship/Förderstipendium 2024 Kiefer Hablitzel | Göhner Art Award 2023 Werkbeitrag / Work grant Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt Research Grant Kultur Basel-Stadt 2022 PAX Art Award emerging media artist Cristina Spoerri Prize Aeschlimann Corti Stipend Nomination Bally Artist Award Nomination

RESIDENCIES

01/2025 – 03/2025 TOKAS, Tokyo Arts And Space, Atelier Mondial, Japan 08/2023 – 10/2023 Digital Art Residency, Transmediale, Berlin 08/2022 Locarno Film Festival Base Camp, invited by the Bally Foundation 09/2021 Research retreat with memeclassworldwide, Floating University, Berlin 08/2020 – 10/2020 Residency Dienerstrasse, Wasteland, Zurich

SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025 #8 guest room, Death Digest, online exhibition, hosted & curated by Marion Balac 2024 There will be Wastelands, Baby!, Kunstsurfer, browser-based art space Now, wouldn't that be iconic, with Anina Müller, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel 2023 Pax Art Awards 2023, HEK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel Too busy making love to my favourite fictional character, EGG Space ZHdK, Zurich Nomads In Remembering, videokunst.ch, Showroom Progr, Bern 2022 Secret Admirer, Grand Palais, Bern Imagine Being Loved By Me, Vitrine, Hrdayam, Bern 2021 1/4, _rondell Süderstasse, Hamburg 2020 Residency Dienerstrasse, Wasteland, Zurich

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 Wear a mask and your face grows to fit it, For Space, Basel Echoes of the present. Choose your reality. Medienkunst in einer durchcodierten Welt. Pax Collection, Atelier Mondial, Münchenstein, Switzerland Mut zur Brücke, Vielfest, Vielbringen, CH Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus Biel, Centre d‘Art Bienne mcww.toxic: Pollution of the Internet, w/ memeclassworldwide, 11m3, Weimar, DE 2024 Tools for Change, w/ memeclassworldwide, HEK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel Come As You Are, Kunsthalle Basel Kiefer Hablitzel, Swiss Art Awards, Messe Basel Scarecrows don't talk, Palazzina, Allschwil, CH Are you happy to be in Paris?, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, AT 2023 Transmediale Open Studios, Silent Green, Berlin Sibylle & Narziss, Museum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf, CH Cantonale Berne Jura, Musée Jurassien des Arts, Moutier, CH Your Voice, Keep Breathing, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH All that we see or seem, Kunstraum Bern Bümpliz, CH May Your Dream Come, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH 2022 Cantonale Pasquart, Biel, CH Cantonale Kunsthaus Steffisburg, Steffisburg, CH What can artists do now? w/ memeclassworldwide, Artist Project Group, Galerie Elisabeth & Klaus Thoman, Vienna Attention Now, Locarno Film Festival, Istituto Sant‘Eugenio, Locarno What would artists do? w/ memeclassworldwide, Artist Project Group, online Abc and Other Fictions, Kasko, Basel Aeschlimann Corti Stipendium, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH 2021 Cantonale, Stadtgalerie, Bern World‘s Rainbow, Kunsthaus Baselland No time for the future, Futur3, Citybox 24, Kiel, DE Einzel nach Weise, curated by Eisenbricht, sososo.space, Bern The Way We Are, der TANK, Basel Invisible Stories, Fashion Revolution, EinzigArt, Lucerne group show at Studio 413, Glasgow 2020 Lost In Transition, Alte Schreinerei, Bern Einblick/Ausblick: memeclass worldwide: put on your tinfoil hat, poster exhibition, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, DE 2019 Cantonale, La Nef, Le Noirmont, CH Regionale, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH Basis 2019, der TANK, Institut Kunst, HGK Basel 2018 281218, Studio Rotlicht, Basel

SCREENINGS

2022 The Joseph Beuys Saga, in: Basel und Beuys, Kunstmuseum Basel | Gegenwart 2021 AIA - Artistic Video Selection, What if? Women in Film Festival, Zurich 45. Schweizer Jugendfilmtage, Zurich My Internet is not your Internet but my reality, online video premier, invited by and in collaboration with Wasteland, Zurich 2019 Control Twenty One, with Bernhard Garnicnig, Jamie Allen, Dr. Lucie Kolb and Sonia Malpeso, hosted by Stephen Willats, Chalton Gallery, London

TALKS & PERFORMANCES

2025 Updating the girl online, symposium, Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, AT 2024 Lipsync is not enough (embodied): Worthless Knowledge As A Love Language, lecture performance, Palazzina, Allschwil, CH Web as artistic field, guest lecture, Geschichte der visuellen Medien, HSLU, Lucerne A talk around football and artistic publishing, I Never Read, Art Book Fair, Basel Das Netz als Spiegel der Gesellschaft, Talk, Fotomuseum Winterthur Content Realism, Panel discussion, Transmediale, Berlin 2023 Come Dream With Us, lecture performance, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, CH 2022 I Hear a New World – 14 Miaows of the Future, performance, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, CH too busy making love to my favourite fictional character, lecture perf., Locarno Film Festival BaseCamp PopUp, Istituto Sant‘Eugenio, Locarno too busy making love to my favourite fictional character, lecture perf., Grand Palais, Bern 2021 The call, telephone perf., collaboration with and invited by Marljin Karsten and Cécile Baumgartner Vizkelety, Regionale, Garage Coop, FR 2020 Backslash Festival, lecture perf. invited by Wallstreet.Support, ALLDA, Zurich (cancelled due to the pandemic) Sex work as an aesthetic backdrop in pop culture, lecture perf., residency Dienerstrasse, Wasteland, Zurich Einblick/Ausblick Radio, free reading, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel, DE ACT Online-Performance Festival, with Milena Mihajlovic Fresh From Zurich, with Jasper and Hannah Mehler, Kulturhaus Helferei, Zurich Untitled (Dawn), with Hannah and Jasper Mehler, Raum A-1.01, HGK, Basel 2019 Sommerprogramm 2x2, Reflector Gallery, Bern La Polimage, Humbug, Basel Faltegi Händ, Aber E Glatte Charakter, perf. and book launch, Material, Zurich

EDUCATION

2025 Jewellery and Wax Carving Short Course, Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London One-on-one Uchidashi lessons with jeweller and silversmith Ken Izumi, Tokyo, Japan 2024 Jewellery Making Short Course, Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London 2022 – 2023 Media Studies & Sociology, University of Basel 2018 – 2021 Bachelor with distinction, Fine Arts, Institut Kunst, FHNW HGK, Basel 2016 – 2017 Foundation Year, SfGBB, Biel, CH 2015 Internship, Parasol Films, Bern

WORK EXPERIENCES

09/2025 – 01/2026,
09/2024 – 01/2025
Lecturer in Forum, University of the Arts, Bern since 2025 Teacher at Foundation Year (Propädeutikum), SfGBB, Biel, CH 09/2023 – 01/2024 Deputy lecturer for Image – Sound – Narration, University of the Arts, Bern 2021 – 2025 Guest teacher at Foundation Year (Propädeutikum), SfGBB, Biel, CH since 2016 Self-employed commission photography and video work spring 2022 Stage design at Junges Theater Basel, play by Anan Fries 2020 Guest teaching with memeclassworldwide and Bernhard Garnicnig as part of the teaching program „New Media Art“, University of Arts, Linz, AT 2019 Research assistant at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures, HGK, Basel. Assisting Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis and working on the „Institutions As A Way Of Life“ project with Jamie Allen, Bernhard Garnicnig and Dr. Lucie Kolb​​​