Shirin Sabahi is a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Berlin. Her projects engage with the built space, tracing the production and interpretation of artefacts and places over time. Art and architectural legacies appear in Shirin Sabahi’s projects as stand-ins for larger historical, economic, and urban developments. Her installations and exhibitions combine appropriated and newly-produced photographic, filmic, and sculptural, and spatial materials.

At Villa Aurora, and in preparation for a new project, Shirin Sabahi will explore the architectural style of storefronts in Los Angeles between the 1940s and 1970s. Using existing buildings and photographic archives, she will look at this expressive architecture through a sculptural prism.

Shirin Sabahi is Villa Aurora Fellow of the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 | Matter of Days, Galleri Format, Malmö
2023 | Out of Season, Klosterruine Berlin
2019 | Shirin Sabahi, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai
2018 | Borrowed Scenery, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 | A Home for Something Unknown, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein n.b.k.
2023 | Educational Web, Kunstverein Hamburg
2022 | Yasmine and the Seven Faces of the Heptahedron, Bergen Assembly Triennial
2021 | Schönheit und Schrecken des Erdölzeitalters, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg

Selected Awards
2023 | Working Grant, Berlin Senate for the Arts
2020 | Working Grant, Stiftung Kunstfonds
2019 | Winner, Best Short Film, Asolo Art Film Festival
2019 | Winner, Best Experimental Film, Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon
2017/18 | Art Grant, Fundación Botín, Santander