JENNIFER MERLYN SCHERLER
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Jennifer Merlyn Scherler is a media intrigued artist based in Basel, Switzerland. They graduated their Fine Art studies 2021 at HGK with distinction and have since won numerous awards such as the Pax Award Emerging Media Artist and Kiefer Hablitzel Price.
They self-identify as a fan and are interested in user-generated (filmic) languages created to share knowledge and affection for a particular thing in the context of grieving, remembering and the creation of intimacy.
​Their visual language is dense with references to popular digital culture and media theoretical texts. It is infused by video material, images and commentary found online. The characters found in Scherler’s work are based on personal experiences and reference internet youth cultures, they are performed by the artist themselves and could be situated in drag.
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AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
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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 Price
Aeschlimann Corti Stipend Nomination
Bally Artist Award Nomination
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RESIDENCIES
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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
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SOLO & DUO EXHIBITIONS
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2024
#8 guest room, Death Digest, online exhibition, hosted & curated by Marion Balac
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
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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
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SCREENINGS
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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
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TALKS & PERFORMANCES
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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
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EDUCATION
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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
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WORK EXPERIENCES
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09/2024 – 01/2025
Lecturer in Forum, University of the Arts, Bern
09/2023 – 01/2024
Deputy lecturer for Image – Sound – Narration, University of the Arts, Bern
since 2021
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​​​
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ANINA MÜLLER
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Anina Müller mainly works in the medium of performance, language and video. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the HGK FHNW in Basel and is doing her Master in Fine Arts at the LUCA in Brussels. She was awarded the MaurerBilleter Foundation’s sponsorship prize in 2019, won the Cristina Spoerri stipend in 2023, was nominated for the Vordemberge-Gildewart stipend in 2023 and received a work grant from the Cultural Promotion of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in 2022.
Anina Müller creates performances that explore identity through the lens of pop-cultural media and how this influences our self-perception. Dressed up as a wide variety of characters and personas, she employs language as a tool to navigate the audience through collaged narratives combining everyday occurrences, cliched movie tropes, diaristic experiences and song lyrics. Müller’s pieces teeter between the absurd and the sincere, celebrating subjective, emotional perceptions while revealing the humorous potential of its conflicting, Sisyphean thought processes.
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EDUCATION
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2023 – now
MA Fine Arts, LUCA Sint Lukas, Brussel, BE
2017 – 2020
BA Fine Arts, FHNW HGK, Basel CH
2016 – 2017
preparatory year, ZHDK, Zurich, CH
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PRIZES / RESIDENCIES / GRANTS
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2023
Cristina Spoerri Grant
2022
Ausserrhodische Kulturstiftung grant
Kloster Dornach residency
2020
GGG studio grant
2019
Maurer-Billeter prize
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EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
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2024
SerformanceP 2024, performance festival, Sao Paolo, BRA
Soft collisions, Palazzina, Basel, CH
Hasta La Vista, ZINNOBER Atelierhaus, Hannover, DE
Figs And Wigs, Hot Pot, Brussels, BE
Prille Liefde, Triennale Brugge Bruges, BE
drama no office, komplot, Brussels, BE
Now, wouldn't that be iconic, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH
2023
mumbles slide along the sleeve, Krone Couronne, Biel, CH
Salon du Lapin, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH
Your Voice, Keep Breathing, Kunsthaus Langenthal, CH
Stories., Mazovian Museum, Plock, POL
Und wenn sie noch nicht gestorben sind..., Hiltibold, St. Gallen, CH
A Performer's Misfits, oxyd Kunsträume, Winterthur, CH
12 rooms, Vomderberge Gildewart Stipend, Kunstmuseum Appenzell, CH
2022
Performing Traces, HEK, House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
I Hear A New World! – 14 Miaows of the Future, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, CH
GRWM, Wie wärs mal mit, Basel, CH
Bang Bang!, Tinguely Museum, Basel, CH
ACT Performancefestival, Dispo Biel, CH
Kunst im Nomad 2022, Hotel Nomad, Basel, CH
Lumpen Station, online/radio
2021
Moderne Gefühle, Filter4, Basel, CH
Rising Up from the Zürisee, perrrformat, Zürich, CH
**Zzzzzzz..., Chicken, Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten, Berlin, DE
**We Are Broken We Are Open, Giulietta Basel, CH
**Getting Home Early in the Morning, Hotel Schweizerhof Zürich, CH
So I got invited to do this thing..., Satellit, Zürich, CH
*ACT Performancefestival (hosted by Chicken), Hotel Volkshaus, Basel, CH
*Feuer Foyer, Giulietta, Basel, CH
*Kommt Zeit Kommt Rat, Giulietta, Basel, CH
2020
no title, Kunsthaus Baselland, Regionale 21, Basel, CH
Temporary Perfection, Stapfelhuus, Weil am Rhein, DE
Love Life Justice, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH
Must or May, Kaskadenkondensator, Basel, CH
Sommercamp, Rote Fabrik, Zürich, CH
Make your own exhibition, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, DE
We Said We Needed Space, Der Tank, Basel, CH
2019
Heavy Vibrations, Der Tank, Basel, CH
Greetings from Paradise, Dock Basel, CH
The Sun to Come, Kunstverein Freiburg, Regionale 20, Freiburg, DE
Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins, Palazzo, Regionale 20, Liestal, CH
Σ SUMME , Humbug, Basel, CH
Mit B, Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld, CH
Junge Kunst Olten, Olten, CH
ACT Performancefestival, Basel, CH
Excentricité X, Besançon, FR
World of Wanderers, Binz39, Zürich, CH
2018
1997, Regionale 19, Cargo Bar, Basel, CH​
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WORK EXPERIENCES
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2023
performer for Domingo Collective, Part I: The Dinner / Part II: The Nightcap, Playground Festival stuk & cas co
2022
performer for Sofia Durrieu, Reflex Arc (Acupuncture / New Altars), Swiss Art Awards
2021
text for Denkbilder Nr. 48: Blick, in collaboration with Andrea Vera Wenger
artist run space, Chicken, curation and organisation
artist run space, Giulietta, curation and organisation
2020
text for Schweizer Kunst: Beruf: Künstler*in, Visarte Schweiz
2018
performer for Tino Sehgal, This Exhibition, Art Basel Parcours
performer for Daniel Jacoby, Tecnopor, Liste Art Fair Basel
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