The Lapidarium Museum
is pleased to invite you to the opening of the exhibition
Hanakam& Schuller
New Adventures in Sightseeing
On Saturday 26th July, 2025 at the Museum Lapidarium at 9 p.m.. The artists will be present.
As artists and researchers, Hanakam and Schuller question the rules of the visual arts. In videos and objects, they develop unconventional orders and new concepts of the world. In doing so, they reflect and ironize historical and contemporary artistic strategies and means of expression.
Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller,Materialkarte (Opala Marine),PVC, iridescent paint, acrylic
Hanakam & Schuller (c) 2024, courtesy Galerie Krinzinger Vienna
The act of sightseeing, once a pursuit reserved for the elite, has evolved over centuries from a journey of self—discovery and intellectual enrichment to a modern—day cultural exploration. With New Adventures in Sightseeing the artist duo delves into the ever—changing relationship between travel, art, and the human desire to see the world. The mise—en—scènedeveloped site specifically for Muzej Museo Lapidarium features works that span antiquity, the Grand Tour, and Early Middle Ages, while exploring the intersections of contemporary artistic practices such as pneumatic objects and Trompe—l’œil techniques. With their retro—like plastic objects Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller transform the museum’s pavilion into a Science—Fiction—like scenery.
Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller
Cosmic Commissioner
PVC, iridescent paint, acrylic, free form, approx. 204 cm x ⌀ 120cm
© 2022 Hanakam & Schuller
Maybe it is a bit due to our time at the Angewandte (University of Applied Arts Vienna) that we actually like to work on applied objects and artifacts, we think about what things could be, what they could do, what actions and rituals they enable. But also, how functional things work as bodies and surfaces, how different surfaces are made – even as illusions – or how we can imagine them to feel like. In the process, we have been working for over 15 years with an archive of industrially manufactured plastic turned parts, which we use as a kind of modular system both for film, photography and installation work. Or as a blueprint for large—scale objects, which we realize as pneumatic bodies and figures. Hanakam& Schuller, 2025.
Portrait / Portret Markus Hanakam & Roswitha Schuller © 2023 Hanakam & Schuller
Markus Hanakam and Roswitha Schuller both studied at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. They have been working as a duo since 2004. Their works have been shown at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, the Eyebeam Center for Art + Technology in New York, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the MAK in Vienna, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, the National Art Center in Tokyo, and the Museum Lapidarium Novigrad—Cittanova, among others. Recent solo shows include CAA KunsthalleAndratx (2023), Kunstforum Vienna and MACAAL Musée d’Art contemporain africain Al Maaden Marrakech (2025).They have participated in numerous international artist—in—residence programs, including with Galerie Krinzinger, which has represented them since 2012. The artists live and work in Vienna.
The exhibition is on view until 10th August 2025.
Muzej Lapidarium, Velika ulica 8a, Novigrad-Cittanova
