19 Feb–13 Apr
Exhibition Power
Opening 19 Feb, 6:30 pm
Palais Populaire, Berlin
22 Nov
7–10 pm
Screening Magazine Launch MATERIA NO. 4 and Launch of OONA
Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen
31 Aug
11 am–6 pm
artists only Grotto Book Fair 2025
Hansabibliothek, Berlin
02–09 May
Presentation of New Acquisitions 2024 of the Collections Artothek of n.b.k. and the ZLB
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k)
16 Mar
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
10 Mar–13 Apr
Exhibition Glassy: Forms of Uncontrolled Control
Opening Mar 9, 6 pm
Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
16 Nov
6:30–8:30 pm
Conversation Showing Plants
(Fanny Brandauer, Rob Crosse, Bethan Hughes, Shirin Sabahi)
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)
, Berlin
15 Nov
10:15 pm
Screening 41. Kasseler Dokfest
BALi Kinos, Kassel
12 Oct–6 Dec
Exhibition Ansichten einer Ordnung
Opening Oct 11, 7 pm
Anti-Kriegs-Museum, Berlin
12 Sep–17 Nov
Exhibition Orangery of Care
Opening 11 Sep, 6 pm
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin
12–15 Sep
Exhibition Fluss Bad Berlin
Opening 11 Sep, 6 pm
Bauakademie, Berlin
8 Sep
3 pm
Exhibition/performance project Über Brücken – Bridging
Rodenkirchener Brücke, Cologne
17 Jul
7 pm
Screening [28 Degree Doom]: New works
Cittipunkt, Berlin
17 May–27 Oct
Exhibition Miniaturbiennale II – Colliding Worlds
Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt am Main
11 May–16 Jun
Solo exhibition Matter of Days
Opening 10 May, 5 pm
Galleri Format, Malmö
18 May–15 Jun
Exhibition Walk, Talk, Write, Go
Opening 18 May, 6 pm
DOOM SPA, Berlin
2 Mar–28 Apr
Exhibition A Home for Something Unknown
Opening 01 Mar, 7 pm
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k)
4–25 Nov
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: pika pika ピカピカ
Opening 4 Nov, 2-6 pm
Goya Curtain, Tokyo
20 Oct
4–9 pm
Screening 3 x Berlin
Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto
29 Sep–2 Nov
Exhibition POWER HOUSE - Episode 05: energy rising
nova space, Schiller-Museum, Weimar
18 Sep–12 Oct
Exhibition Building.Beauty
Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul
6 Aug
3–6 pm
Finissage Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season, music by Lupercia
Klosterruine Berlin
20 Jul
7 pm
Garden Play. A performative reading by Bela Shayevich & Kristijonas Bartkus
Klosterruine Berlin
25 Jun–6 Aug
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season
Opening 24 Jun, from 6 pm, music performance by Caleb Salgado at 7 pm
Klosterruine Berlin
5 Apr
6:30 pm
Big Picture: Screening and Conversation with Yasmin Afschar
Asia Society, Zurich
2 Apr
12:30 pm
Screening Xam, Xamlé: RAW Académie
Kunstverein in Hamburg
1 Apr–6 Aug
Exhibition The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
24 Feb–21 May
Exhibition The Barricaded Picture
Sorø Kunstmuseum
15 Feb
Artist talk and screening
Malmö Konsthall
2022
8 Sep–6 Nov
Exhibition Bergen Assembly: Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron
Bryggens Museum, Bergen
27–28 Aug
Exhibition Spoiler Alert
BPA Raum, Berlin
20 Aug–11 Sep
Exhibition Conversation Pit
Winona, Brussels
16 Jul–16 Sep
Exhibition Grüße von Schäfersee
KSOIK, Berlin
15 Jul–13 Aug
Exhibition Spatial Momentum
Haunt // Frontviews, Berlin
1 Jul
Screening London Music Video Festival
1–31 May
Exhibition Note Di Sguardi
Berlin Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Museum Pankow, Berlin & Giardino Lavinia Fontana, Bologna
7-13 Mar
Screening Posenenske, Sabahi, Alÿs, Chang, Rainer
CCA Berlin
2021
18 Nov–7 Dec
Exhibition Porosity, Videograms Festival
Sodas 2123 Culture Centre, Vilnius
12 Nov 2021–18 Apr 2022
Exhibition Experiences of Oil
Kunstmuseum Stavanger
23 Oct 2021–13 Feb 2022
Exhibition Circuit: Marina Pinsky, Europalia Arts Festival
Former Train Museum, Station Brussel-Noord, Brussels
7 Oct
7:30 pm
Screening Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Cinemateket, Copenhagen
4 Sep 2021–
9 Jan 2022
Exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
15 Sep–15 Oct
Screening A Slight Shift of Angle, a program by Noor Abed on aashra (online)
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
27 Aug
12 am
Screening BPA Summer Special at Video Art at Midnight
Kino Babylon, Berlin
21 Aug–19 Sep
Exhibition BPA 2021
KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
16 Jul
10:30 am
Artist talk Friday Forum
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
17 May
5 pm
Artist talk Shirin Sabahi: Obergeschoss at BPA Talks (online)
KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2020
25 Oct
Screening Trondheim Architecture Film Festival
25–26 Sep
4 pm
Screening Breathing Out of School
RAW Académie at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris
23 Sep
6 pm
Kaunas International Film Festival
Romuva Cinema, Kaunas
Double screening programme Data and Dirt. Matter as a Historical Body with films by Filipa César and Shirin Sabahi, curated by Viktorija Šiaulytė
8 Sep–end of the year/pandemic
Exhibition STUDIO BERLIN
Berghain, Berlin
1–30 Jun
1–24 Jun
Borrowed Scenery (2017, 15 min) streams at Screen: Art Viewer’s Online Screening Series . Curated by Elise Lammer
21 Feb–28 Mar
Exhibition Bleibt’s bei heute?
oqbo | raum für bild wort ton, Berlin
12 Feb
7 pm
Listening session PLACES: Plano B w/ Vijai Patchineelam
TIER—The Institute of Endotic Research, Berlin
15 Jan
7 pm
Pocket Folklore: Screening and Book Launch with artist Shirin Sabahi in conversation with Antonia Alampi and Edit Molnár
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
2019
19 Dec
7 pm
Artist Talk at Extra Academy lecture series
Het Bos, Antwerp. Curated by artists Nico Dockx and Steve Van den Bosch, introduction by Vijai Maia Patchineelam.
10 Oct
8 pm
Artist Talk at KASKlezing. Curated by Godart Bakkers
KASK, Campus Bijloke – Cirque, Gent
24–27 Oct
Screening Milano Design Film Festival
16–20 Oct
25–29 Sep
Seoul International Architecture Film Festival
24 Aug
7-10 pm
Solo exhibition Exercise in Spring (Berlin Edition)
Longue Road Projects, Oslo
18 Jul
7:30 pm
Reading PLACES: Fischerinsel w/ Inger Wold Lund
Books People Places, Berlin
Jun
Landing (2018, 21 min) won the best experimental film at Lisbon Architecture Film Festival and the best short film at Asolo Art Film Festival.
25 Apr
12 pm
European Media Art Festival (EMAF)
Lagerhalle, Osnabrück
30 Mar
7 pm
Crude Symposium, Conversation between Murtaza Vali and Shirin Sabahi
Art Jameel Center, Dubai
24 Mar–2 Apr
Film Program Shirin Sabahi
Art Jameel Center, Dubai
24-26 Mar
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
15–17 Feb
Screening Moves #200-202
ITALIC, Berlin
15 Feb–12 May
Exhibition Itinerarios XXV
Centro Botín, Santander
18 Jan—30 Mar
Exhibition When Legacies Become Debt
The Mosaic Rooms, London
2018
21–26 Dec
Screening Difficult to See, a week-long workshop by Vijai Maia Patchineelam and Aveek Sen
CONA Foundation, Mumbai
4 Jul–30 Sep
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Borrowed Scenery
Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
12 May–2 Sep
Exhibition David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenzia
7 Feb
7:30 pm
Artist talk PLACES: Moerenuma Park w/ Andrea Canepa
Books People Places, Berlin
4 Jul
7:30 pm
Talk PLACES: Kreuzberg Tower w/ Ana Filipovic & Philipp Mecke
Books People Places, Berlin
19 Apr
7:30 pm
Screening and talk PLACES: Bonjour Tristesse w/Veljko Marković
Books People Places, Berlin
Shirin Sabahi is a visual artist working across film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her site-responsive practice draws on objects and places shaped and transformed over time, from private interiors to public spaces such as parks, swimming pools, memorials, and museum collections. She lives in Berlin.
Mail: info@shirinsabahi.com
Shirin Sabahi is a visual artist working across film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her site-responsive practice draws on objects and places shaped and transformed over time, from private interiors to public spaces such as parks, swimming pools, memorials, and museum collections. She lives in Berlin.
Mail: info@shirinsabahi.com
2026
14 Apr
7 pm
Screening The Visions and Images of Koyo Kouoh
e-flux, New York
19 Feb–13 Apr
Exhibition Power
Opening 19 Feb, 6:30 pm
Palais Populaire, Berlin
2025
15–29 Nov
Exhibition Sous la jupe de la tour Eiffel
Opening 15 Nov, 6 pm
Grotto, Berlin
22 Nov
7–10 pm
Screening Magazine Launch MATERIA NO. 4 and Launch of OONA
Gloria Biograf, Copenhagen
31 Aug
11 am–6 pm
artists only Grotto Book Fair 2025
Hansabibliothek, Berlin
02–09 May
Presentation of New Acquisitions 2024 of the Collections Artothek of n.b.k. and the ZLB
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k)
16 Mar
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
10 Mar–13 Apr
Exhibition Glassy: Forms of Uncontrolled Control
Opening Mar 9, 6 pm
Schloss Biesdorf, Berlin
2024
30 Nov
4 pm
Jahresgaben 40 Years
Dortmunder Kunstverein
Dortmund
16 Nov
6:30–8:30 pm
Conversation Showing Plants
(Fanny Brandauer, Rob Crosse, Bethan Hughes, Shirin Sabahi)
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)
, Berlin
15 Nov
10:15 pm
Screening 41. Kasseler Dokfest
BALi Kinos, Kassel
12 Oct–6 Dec
Exhibition Ansichten einer Ordnung
Opening Oct 11, 7 pm
Anti-Kriegs-Museum, Berlin
12 Sep–17 Nov
Exhibition Orangery of Care
Opening 11 Sep, 6 pm
neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK), Berlin
12–15 Sep
Exhibition Fluss Bad Berlin
Opening 11 Sep, 6 pm
Bauakademie, Berlin
8 Sep
3 pm
Exhibition/performance project Über Brücken – Bridging
Rodenkirchener Brücke, Cologne
17 Jul
7 pm
Screening [28 Degree Doom]: New works
Cittipunkt, Berlin
17 May–27 Oct
Exhibition Miniaturbiennale II – Colliding Worlds
Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt am Main
11 May–16 Jun
Solo exhibition Matter of Days
Opening 10 May, 5 pm
Galleri Format, Malmö
18 May–15 Jun
Exhibition Walk, Talk, Write, Go
Opening 18 May, 6 pm
DOOM SPA, Berlin
2 Mar–28 Apr
Exhibition A Home for Something Unknown
Opening 01 Mar, 7 pm
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k)
2023
1 Dec
7 pm
Screening Others Film Club #1: Shirin Sabahi
Soto, Kyoto
4–25 Nov
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: pika pika ピカピカ
Opening 4 Nov, 2-6 pm
Goya Curtain, Tokyo
20 Oct
4–9 pm
Screening 3 x Berlin
Goethe Institut Villa Kamogawa, Kyoto
29 Sep–2 Nov
Exhibition POWER HOUSE - Episode 05: energy rising
nova space, Schiller-Museum, Weimar
18 Sep–12 Oct
Exhibition Building.Beauty
Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul
6 Aug
3–6 pm
Finissage Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season, music by Lupercia
Klosterruine Berlin
20 Jul
7 pm
Garden Play. A performative reading by Bela Shayevich & Kristijonas Bartkus
Klosterruine Berlin
25 Jun–6 Aug
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Out of Season
Opening 24 Jun, from 6 pm, music performance by Caleb Salgado at 7 pm
Klosterruine Berlin
5 Apr
6:30 pm
Big Picture: Screening and Conversation with Yasmin Afschar
Asia Society, Zurich
2 Apr
12:30 pm
Screening Xam, Xamlé: RAW Académie
Kunstverein in Hamburg
1 Apr–6 Aug
Exhibition The Educational Web
Kunstverein in Hamburg
24 Feb–21 May
Exhibition The Barricaded Picture
Sorø Kunstmuseum
15 Feb
Artist talk and screening
Malmö Konsthall
2022
8 Sep–6 Nov
Exhibition Bergen Assembly: Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron
Bryggens Museum, Bergen
27–28 Aug
Exhibition Spoiler Alert
BPA Raum, Berlin
20 Aug–11 Sep
Exhibition Conversation Pit
Winona, Brussels
16 Jul–16 Sep
Exhibition Grüße von Schäfersee
KSOIK, Berlin
15 Jul–13 Aug
Exhibition Spatial Momentum
Haunt // Frontviews, Berlin
1 Jul
Screening London Music Video Festival
1–31 May
Exhibition Note Di Sguardi
Berlin Bibliothek am Wasserturm, Museum Pankow, Berlin & Giardino Lavinia Fontana, Bologna
7-13 Mar
Screening Posenenske, Sabahi, Alÿs, Chang, Rainer
CCA Berlin
2021
18 Nov–7 Dec
Exhibition Porosity, Videograms Festival
Sodas 2123 Culture Centre, Vilnius
12 Nov 2021–18 Apr 2022
Exhibition Experiences of Oil
Kunstmuseum Stavanger
23 Oct 2021–13 Feb 2022
Exhibition Circuit: Marina Pinsky, Europalia Arts Festival
Former Train Museum, Station Brussel-Noord, Brussels
7 Oct
7:30 pm
Screening Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Cinemateket, Copenhagen
4 Sep 2021–
9 Jan 2022
Exhibition Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
15 Sep–15 Oct
Screening A Slight Shift of Angle, a program by Noor Abed on aashra (online)
Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
27 Aug
12 am
Screening BPA Summer Special at Video Art at Midnight
Kino Babylon, Berlin
21 Aug–19 Sep
Exhibition BPA 2021
KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
16 Jul
10:30 am
Artist talk Friday Forum
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
17 May
5 pm
Artist talk Shirin Sabahi: Obergeschoss at BPA Talks (online)
KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin
2020
25 Oct
Screening Trondheim Architecture Film Festival
25–26 Sep
4 pm
Screening Breathing Out of School
RAW Académie at Bétonsalon – Center for Art and Research, Paris
23 Sep
6 pm
Kaunas International Film Festival
Romuva Cinema, Kaunas
Double screening programme Data and Dirt. Matter as a Historical Body with films by Filipa César and Shirin Sabahi, curated by Viktorija Šiaulytė
8 Sep–end of the year/pandemic
Exhibition STUDIO BERLIN
Berghain, Berlin
1–30 Jun
1–24 Jun
Borrowed Scenery (2017, 15 min) streams at Screen: Art Viewer’s Online Screening Series . Curated by Elise Lammer
21 Feb–28 Mar
Exhibition Bleibt’s bei heute?
oqbo | raum für bild wort ton, Berlin
12 Feb
7 pm
Listening session PLACES: Plano B w/ Vijai Patchineelam
TIER—The Institute of Endotic Research, Berlin
15 Jan
7 pm
Pocket Folklore: Screening and Book Launch with artist Shirin Sabahi in conversation with Antonia Alampi and Edit Molnár
Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
2019
19 Dec
7 pm
Artist Talk at Extra Academy lecture series
Het Bos, Antwerp. Curated by artists Nico Dockx and Steve Van den Bosch, introduction by Vijai Maia Patchineelam.
10 Oct
8 pm
Artist Talk at KASKlezing. Curated by Godart Bakkers
KASK, Campus Bijloke – Cirque, Gent
24–27 Oct
Screening Milano Design Film Festival
16–20 Oct
25–29 Sep
Seoul International Architecture Film Festival
24 Aug
7-10 pm
Solo exhibition Exercise in Spring (Berlin Edition)
Longue Road Projects, Oslo
18 Jul
7:30 pm
Reading PLACES: Fischerinsel w/ Inger Wold Lund
Books People Places, Berlin
Jun
Landing (2018, 21 min) won the best experimental film at Lisbon Architecture Film Festival and the best short film at Asolo Art Film Festival.
25 Apr
12 pm
European Media Art Festival (EMAF)
Lagerhalle, Osnabrück
24 Mar–2 Apr
Film Program Shirin Sabahi
Art Jameel Center, Dubai
24-26 Mar
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
15–17 Feb
Screening Moves #200-202
ITALIC, Berlin
15 Feb–12 May
Exhibition Itinerarios XXV
Centro Botín, Santander
18 Jan—30 Mar
Exhibition When Legacies Become Debt
The Mosaic Rooms, London
2018
21–26 Dec
Screening Difficult to See, a week-long workshop by Vijai Maia Patchineelam and Aveek Sen
CONA Foundation, Mumbai
4 Jul–30 Sep
Solo exhibition Shirin Sabahi: Borrowed Scenery
Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg
12 May–2 Sep
Exhibition David Chipperfield Architects Works 2018
Basilica Palladiana, Vicenzia
7 Feb
7:30 pm
Artist talk PLACES: Moerenuma Park w/ Andrea Canepa
Books People Places, Berlin
2017
15 Sep–14 Oct
Duo exhibition the medium is a mess (w/Dominik Steiger)
Charim Galerie, Vienna