Curated by Fanni Fetzer
in cooperation with Museum Kurhaus Kleve
supported by ArtClub Luzern, Binding Sélection d’Artistes, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Pro Helvetia, Kanton Zürich, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Stadt Zürich Kultur
Shirana Shahbazi (*1974) has adopted a differentiated view of our society and its challenges. Her multi-layered work establishes the fragment and layering as a strategy for doing justice to a complex present. Based on her experience of multiple affiliations, she examines the construction of reality. How can the experience of the simultaneity of different realities be depicted in images? How can spatial and emotional distances be grasped? Always starting with photography, but including the most diverse of techniques and materials, Shahbazi’s work eschews any obvious categorisation; it conveys polyphony as a political stance.
Developed in dialogue with artist Li Tavor, the exhibition brings together new and previously unseen works in a large-scale installation that unfolds across the museum. Working between photography and installation, Shahbazi explores the processes of image-making and perception, creating visual constellations in which abstraction and figuration continually shift and overlap.
Shirana Shahbazi, Falling Sima 06, 2026. Lithograph on handmade paper, 140 × 180 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
in cooperation with Museum Kurhaus Kleve
supported by ArtClub Luzern, Binding Sélection d’Artistes, Ernst Göhner Stiftung, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Pro Helvetia, Kanton Zürich, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Stadt Zürich Kultur
Shirana Shahbazi (*1974) has adopted a differentiated view of our society and its challenges. Her multi-layered work establishes the fragment and layering as a strategy for doing justice to a complex present. Based on her experience of multiple affiliations, she examines the construction of reality. How can the experience of the simultaneity of different realities be depicted in images? How can spatial and emotional distances be grasped? Always starting with photography, but including the most diverse of techniques and materials, Shahbazi’s work eschews any obvious categorisation; it conveys polyphony as a political stance.
Developed in dialogue with artist Li Tavor, the exhibition brings together new and previously unseen works in a large-scale installation that unfolds across the museum. Working between photography and installation, Shahbazi explores the processes of image-making and perception, creating visual constellations in which abstraction and figuration continually shift and overlap.
Shirana Shahbazi, Falling Sima 06, 2026. Lithograph on handmade paper, 140 × 180 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
June 30, 2026
