Sarah Szczesny studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and graduated as a master student of Prof. Rosemarie Trockel. She currently lives and works in Cologne, She has shown her work in numerous exhibitions, including solo exhibitions at NAK Neuer Aachener Kunstverein (2019), Galerie pcp in Paris (2018), Ludlow 38 in New York (2014) and Galerie Cinzia Friedlaender in Berlin (2010). Since 2016 she has also been working with Lena Willikens on the processual work Phantom Kino Ballett – exhibitions and performances have taken place at the Museum für angewandte Kunst Frankfurt, the Kunstverein für Rheinlande und Westfalen in Düsseldorf and the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, among others. She is currently participating in a three-month residency at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles.