Markus Hanakam (*1979 in Essen, Germany) and Roswitha Schuller (*1984 in Friesach, Austria), short Hanakam & Schuller, are an artist duo living and working in Vienna (Austria).
Many of their artifacts are shapeshifters, changing their outer form and reappearing in a variety of contexts. As artists and explorers, Hanakam and Schuller redesign the rules of the fine arts for their own purposes and create unconventional arrangements and new world designs in videos and objects – while also working with applied art forms.
The duo attended the class for art and design from 2002-2007 and the class for sculpture from 2006-2009 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Roswitha Schuller received her Ph.D. in Art sociology in 2012. The artists have been working together since 2004.
Hanakam & Schuller’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at an international scale. For instance at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany; the Eyebeam art and technology center in New York, USA; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia; MAK, Vienna, Austria; the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, USA and National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan. Their video— animation The Borgia Device (Second Day) is part of the show ANTHROPOCENE ON HOLD — 20 artists address the impact of a global pandemic on arts ecosystems and earth’s resilience and sustainability — by PCAI Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative in Piraeus, Greece, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, accompanied by a catalogue with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadim Samman, Selina Nwulu (2020–21) a solo show at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, 2022, in 2023 they exhibited with a solo show at the Carinthian Sate Museum Rudolfinum, Klagenfurt and in the same year they were part of the CCAAndratx artist-in-residence Program followed by a solo exhibition at their Kunsthalle. In 2024 they were part of the group exhibition ‘My Last Will‘ at the Casino Luxembourg.
They were awarded the Recognition Award of the Province of Tyrol (2007), LOOP Barcelona Discovery Award shortlist (2015) and the MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien Kapsch Art Award shortlist (2017).
