Wasting Time on the Internet
with Hedda Schattanik & Roman Szczesny
Hedda Schattanik (b. 1992 in Westerstede) and Roman Szczesny (b. 1987 in Bensberg) have been working as a collective in Düsseldorf since 2014. Their videos are distinguished by surreal animations, nonlinear narrative structures, and superimpositions of space and time and also grapple with older media such as literature, theater, sculpture, and drawing. Both studied (or still do) at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the courses of Andreas Gursky, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, and Marcel Odenbach. In recent years they have shown their works at the K21 of the Kunstsammlung NRW, at the Düsseldorfer Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, at the Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, and the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, among other places. Their work has been awarded the Förderpreis für Bildende Kunst der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf, the Marler Medienkunstpreis, and the LKART Scholarship of the Stoschek Collection, among others.
