Sarah Szczesny
Sarah Szczesny lives and Works in Cologne. She completed her art studies in 2009 as a master student of Prof. Rosemarie Trockel. She holds an interdisciplinary teaching position for visual methods at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf since 2021. Since 2024 she has been teaching painting at the University of Cologne and has been a guest lecturer at the Kunstakademie Münster. Her paintings, collages, videos and performances have been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf, the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Ludlow 38 and the Martos Gallery in New York, and O-Town House in Los Angeles. Essential to her art practice is the questioning of cultural hierarchies and an experimental expansion of painting through animation, sound and pop culture references. Since 2016, she has been working with musician and producer Lena Willikens on the processual project called Phantom Kino Ballett, which includes performances, videos and installations and is presented in art institutions, theatres and at music and film festivals.
Sarah Szczesny is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026.
Sarah Szczesny lives and Works in Cologne. She completed her art studies in 2009 as a master student of Prof. Rosemarie Trockel. She holds an interdisciplinary teaching position for visual methods at the Robert Schumann University of Music in Düsseldorf since 2021. Since 2024 she has been teaching painting at the University of Cologne and has been a guest lecturer at the Kunstakademie Münster. Her paintings, collages, videos and performances have been shown nationally and internationally, including at the Kunstverein Düsseldorf, the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Ludlow 38 and the Martos Gallery in New York, and O-Town House in Los Angeles. Essential to her art practice is the questioning of cultural hierarchies and an experimental expansion of painting through animation, sound and pop culture references. Since 2016, she has been working with musician and producer Lena Willikens on the processual project called Phantom Kino Ballett, which includes performances, videos and installations and is presented in art institutions, theatres and at music and film festivals.
Sarah Szczesny is in residence at the Tarabya Cultural Academy from February to May 2026.