Film program by Hedda Roman

Catherina Cramer's way to feature film leads from an apprenticeship as a window dresser, working in the theater to her studies at the art academies in Münster and then in Düsseldorf. There she met her professors Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster and Keren Cytter, who - like Catherina - work at the intersection of art and film. Even though narrative formats have been part of her multimedia practice as an artist from the very beginning, she developed and realized her first fictional short feature film INSICKURE together with ania maria wanda in 2023/24. Catherina lives and works in Berlin. Her artistic and cinematic works are regularly shown in renowned institutions, including the V-Art Center (Shanghai); Stroboskop Artspace (New York); Museum Folkwang (Essen); Dortmunder U (Dortmund) and the Julia Stoschek Collection (Düsseldorf), Josef Albers Museum (Bottrop).


Silke Schönfeld (*1988 in Idar-Oberstein) is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives in Dortmund and Amsterdam. Her work has been exhibited internationally in numerous art exhibitions and at film festivals, including the Goethe-Institut, Paris (FR), Folkwang Museum, Essen (DE), Garage Rotterdam (NL), Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica (US). Her short documentary "I may always ask her anything" was awarded the German Short Film Prize in 2023.


Fynn Ribbeck was born 1995 in Lennep. Fynn lives and works in Düsseldorf, and studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf with Rebecca Warren, Marcel Odenbach and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster. Fynn is a master student of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster.


Daphne Fietz is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology and holds the Fox Fellowship at Cambridge University. She received a Master of Fine Arts from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and a Master's in Sociology from the London School of Economics. Daphne works at the intersection of social and political theory and multimethod research. She hopes to find new vocabularies beyond the eroding frames of ‘neoliberalism’ and ‘late modernity’ to illuminate the present moment better and facilitate reflexive responses to its challenges. Her artwork explores questions of difference and identity in its visceral dimensions. What affectual and emotive openings towards others do we carry? Her work is intended to problematize these relationships and to facilitate forms of reflexiveness in the viewer beyond conceptual knowledge.

Hedda Roman is a Düsseldorf-based artist mesh composed of Hedda Schattanik and Roman Szczesny. Interweaving cinematographic elements with surreal animation, literature, drama, sculpture, photography, and drawing, they create, among others, immersive video installations as well as computer-generated images. In their artistic practice, Hedda Roman aims to expand the traditional boundaries of art-making while reflecting on the perceptions, preconceptions, and contradictions that characterize our existence in the world. Solo exhibitions include Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf (2023, 2021), Salzburger Kunstverein, (2023), Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf (2021), Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf (2019), Julia Stoschek Collection, Studio 54, Düsseldorf (2019), Insel Hombroich, Neuss (2018), COMA Gallery, Sydney (2018).