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Calendar

16 Mar 2025, 5:30 pm

Screening FIFA Experimental: Places That Live Within Us

International Festival of Films on Art (Le FIFA), Montréal

Pavillon J. W. McConnell, Concordia University

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10 Mar–13 Apr 2025

Gläsern: Forms of Uncontrolled Control

Opening Mar 9, 6 pm

Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin

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30 Nov 2024, 4 pm

Jahresgaben 40 Years

Dortmunder Kunstverein, Dortmund

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16 Nov 2024, 6:30–8:30 pm

Conversation Showing Plants (Fanny Brandauer, Rob Crosse, Bethan Hughes, Shirin Sabahi)

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin

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8 Sep 2024, 3 pm

Exhibition/performance project Über Brücken – Bridging

Rodenkirchener Brücke, Cologne

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11 May–16 Jun 2024

Solo exhibition Matter of Days

Opening 10 May, 5 pm

Galleri Format, Malmö

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18 May 18–15 Jun 2024

Exhibition Walk, Talk, Write, Go

Opening 18 May, 6 pm

DOOM SPA, Berlin

Exhibition A Home for Something Unknown

Opening 01 Mar, 7 pm

Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k)

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01 Dec 2023, 7 pm

Screening Others Film Club #1: Shirin Sabahi

Soto, Kyoto

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04–25 Nov 2023

Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: pika pika

Opening 04 Nov, 2-6 pm

Goya Curtain, Tokyo

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20 Oct 2023, 4–9 pm

Screening 3 x Berlin

Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto

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29 Sep–02 Nov 2023

Exhibition POWER HOUSE - Episode 05: energy rising

nova space, Schiller-Museum, Weimar

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18 Sep–12 Oct 2023

Exhibition Building.Beauty

Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul

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06 Aug 2023, 3–6 pm

Finissage Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season, music by Lupercia

Klosterruine Berlin

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20 Jul 2023, 7 pm

Garden Play. A performative reading by Bela Shayevich & Kristijonas Bartkus

Klosterruine Berlin

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25 Jun–06 Aug 2023

Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season

Opening 24 Jun, from 6 pm, music performance by Caleb Salgado at 7 pm

Klosterruine Berlin

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5 Apr 2023, 6:30 pm

Big Picture: Screening and Conversation with Yasmin Afschar

Asia Society, Zurich

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2 Apr 2023, 12:30 pm

Screening Xam, Xamlé: RAW Académie

Kunstverein in Hamburg

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01 Apr—06 Aug 2023

Exhibition The Educational Web

Kunstverein in Hamburg

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24 Feb—21 May 2023

Exhibition The Barricaded Picture

Sorø Kunstmuseum

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15 Feb 2023

Artist talk and screening

Malmö Konsthall

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8 Sep—6 Nov 2022

Exhibition Bergen Assembly: Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron

Bryggens Museum, Bergen

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27—28 Aug 2022

Exhibition Spoiler Alert

BPA Raum, Berlin

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20 Aug—11 Sep 2022

Exhibition Conversation Pit

Winona, Brussels

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16 Jul–16 Sep 2022

Exhibition Grüße von Schäfersee

KSOIK, Berlin

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15 Jul—13 Aug 2022

Exhibition Spatial Momentum

Haunt // Frontviews, Berlin

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1 Jul 2022

Screening London Music Video Festival

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1—31 May 2022

Exhibition Note Di Sguardi

Berlin Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Museum Pankow, Berlin & Giardino Lavinia Fontana, Bologna

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7-13 Mar 2022

Screening Posenenske, Sabahi, Alÿs, Chang, Rainer (online)

CCA Berlin

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18 Nov—7 Dec 2021

Porosity, exhibition section of Videograms Festival

Sodas 2123 Culture Centre, Vilnius

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12 Nov 2021–18 Apr 2022

Exhibition Experiences of Oil

Kunstmuseum Stavanger

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23 Oct 2021–13 Feb 2022

Exhibition Marina Pinsky: Circuit, Europalia Arts Festival

Former Train Museum, Station Brussel-Noord, Brussels

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7 Oct 2021, 7:30 pm

Screening Copenhagen Architecture Festival

Cinemateket, Copenhagen

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4 Sep 2021–9 Jan 2022

Exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age

Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

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15 Sep—15 Oct 2021

Screening A Slight Shift of Angle, a program by Noor Abed on aashra (online)

Ashkal Alwan, Beirut

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27 Aug 2021, 12 am

Screening BPA Summer Special at Video Art at Midnight

Kino Babylon, Berlin

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21 Aug–19 Sep 2021

Exhibition BPA 2021

KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin

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16 Jul 2021, 10:30 am

Artist talk Friday Forum

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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17 May 2021, 5 pm

Artist talk Shirin Sabahi: Obergeschoss at BPA Talks (online)

KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin

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29 Mar 2021–ongoing

Landing (2018, 21 min) is available for streaming in Canada for arts.film subscribers.

art.film is a new national streaming platform initiated by the Festival International du Film sur l’Art (Le FiFA), Montreal.

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25 Oct 2020

Trondheim Architecture Film Festival

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25—26 Sep 2020, 4 pm

Screening Breathing Out of School, RAW Académie at Bétonsalon

Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris

 
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23 Sep 2020, 6 pm

Kaunas International Film Festival

Borrowed Scenery (2017, 15 min) and Mouthful (2018, 36 min) will screen at the Kaunas International Film Festival as part of the double screening programme Data and Dirt. Matter as a Historical Body with films by Filipa César and Shirin Sabahi, curated by Viktorija Šiaulytė.

Romuva Cinema, Kaunas

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8 Sep 2020—end of the year/pandemic

Exhibition STUDIO BERLIN

Berghain, Berlin

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1–30 Jun 2020

Mouthful (2018, 36 min) streams on Ashkal Alwan’s video streaming platform aashra. Curated by Christine Tohme

Ashkal Alwan, Beirut

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1–24 Jun 2020

Borrowed Scenery (2017, 15 min) will screen at Screen: Art Viewer’s Online Screening Series
. A program curated by Elise Lammer

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21 Feb — 28 Mar 2020

Exhibition Bleibt’s bei heute?

oqbo | raum für bild wort ton, Berlin

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12 Feb 2020, 7 pm


Listening session PLACES: Plano B with Vijai Patchineelam

TIER—The Institute of Endotic Research, Berlin

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15 Jan 2020, 7 pm


Pocket Folklore: Screening and Book Launch with artist Shirin Sabahi
, followed by a conversation with Antonia Alampi and Edit Molnár

Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

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19 Dec 2019, 7 pm

Artist Talk at Extra Academy lecture series, introduction by Vijai Patchineelam

Het Bos, Antwerp

Extra Academy organizes an open program of lectures, performances, workshops and screenings around artistic practice, reflection and research. It is an alliance between the Academy of Fine Arts, Sint Lucas School of Arts and Het Bos, curated by artists Nico Dockx and Steve Van den Bosch.

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10 Oct 2019, 8 pm

Artist Talk at KASKlezing, a lecture series curated by Godart Bakkers

KASK, Campus Bijloke – Cirque, Gent

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24–27 Oct 2019

Screening Milano Design Film Festival

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16–20 Oct 2019

Screening Lund International Architecture Film Festival

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25–29 Sep 2019

Seoul International Architecture Film Festival

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24 Aug 2019, 7-10 pm

Solo exhibition Exercise in Spring (Berlin Edition)

Longue Road Projects, Oslo

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18 Jul 2019, 7:30 pm

Reading PLACES: Fischerinsel with Inger Wold Lund

Books People Places, Berlin

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Jun 2019

Landing (2018, 21 min) won the best experimental film at Lisbon Architecture Film Festival and the best short film at Asolo Art Film Festival.

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25 Apr 2019, 12 pm

European Media Art Festival (EMAF)

Lagerhalle, Osnabrück

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24 Mar–2 Apr 2019

Film Program Shirin Sabahi, with a conversation between Murtaza Vali and Shirin Sabahi on March 30 as part of Crude Symposium.

Art Jameel Center, Dubai

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24-26 Mar 2019

Landing (2018, 21 min) and Mouthful (2018, 36 min) screen at Montréal International Festival of Films on Art (LeFiFA)

Landing : 24 Mar, 12:30 at Centre Canadien d’Architecture and 26 Mar, 17:30 at Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin

Mouthful: March 24, 17:45 at Concordia – J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell

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15–17 Feb 2019

Screening Moves #200-202

ITALIC, Berlin

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15 Feb–12 May 2019

Exhibition Itinerarios XXV

Centro Botín, Santander

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18 Jan—30 Mar 2019

Exhibition When Legacies Become Debt

The Mosaic Rooms, London

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21–26 Dec 2018

Screening Difficult to See, a week-long workshop by Vijai Patchineelam and Aveek Sen

CONA Foundation, Mumbai

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4 Jul–30 Sep 2018

Solo Exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Borrowed Scenery

Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg

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12 May–2 Sep 2018

Exhibition David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018

Basilica Palladiana, Vicenzia

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7 Feb 2018, 7:30 pm

Artist talk PLACES: Moerenuma Park by Andrea Canepa

Books People Places, Berlin

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15 Sep-14 Oct 2017

Duo exhibition the medium is a mess (w/Dominik Steiger)

Charim Galerie, Vienna