Schscht is an artist collective consisting of Koosje Schmeddes (NL) and Dirk Schellekens (B). Their joint studio is located in Antwerp. They have been creating visual works and performances/interventions since 2020.
With their artworks and performances they raise questions about impermanence, fragility and investigate the ways in which art can be part of our daily lives. Schscht is interested in the choices we make and the autonomy that accompanies them.
Their work has much in common with surrealism, humor and absurdism. Schscht enjoy and deal in unlikely images. They create work that looks like it shouldn’t exist. They often bring together domestic elements with elements and influences coming from a larger outside world. They constantly return to the confusion between image and object and the moments when they intersect.
Schscht plays with exchanges and relationships between different actors: artists, (public) (art) spaces and -whether accidental or not- audiences. Schscht investigates the ways in which art can be part of our daily lives, and what the relationship is between artist and spectator. Schscht often seeks the boundaries between art(s) and audience and blurs them by allowing audience to actively participate in the design of the image.