23.05.2026 – 12.07.2026
In a large new installation, Agnes Scherer transforms two late 18th-century paintings by Francisco Goya into a walk-in theatrical set, in which painting, scenography and symbolic language merge to form an expanded tableau of social rituals and manipulations. In her work, the artist explores power relations and their psychosocial foundations, female experience, states of mind within capitalist realities, and the uncanny reappearance of historical systems of order in the present. By combining sculpture, painting and collage, she creates scenic installations and performative object theatre, in which the marionette often plays a central role. Whether as a real figure or merely as a conceptual representation of entanglement, the marionette can make visible complex interrelationships that would otherwise elude immediate perception. Scherer’s often systemic arrangements demand an active, interpretative synthesis of all elements, through which the actual image emerges as a mental construct. Her explorations of form are grounded in art-historical and anthropological studies, as well as a particular interest in popular art forms of early modernism, especially in the realm of fairground art.
Agnes Scherer
23.05.2026 – 12.07.2026
Salzburger Kunstverein
Hellabrunner Straße 3
5020 Salzburg
www.salzburger-kunstverein.at
