Introduction

Shirana Shahbazi’s oeuvre explores the relation between images and image surfaces, and between different media and their iconic qualities. Her observation is determined by Western painting; her recent still-lives for example refer to motives taken from cubism or constructivism and concrete art. Shahbazi has recently brought her work to a new level of abstraction, with free application of colors and geometric forms. Shahbazi realizes these works by making photographs of real geometric shapes and colored objects arranged in the format of a still-life.

Shirana Shahbazi took part in the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003 and had exhibitions in a.o. MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013), Fotomuseum Winterthur (2011), New Museum, New York (2011), and The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2008). Her work is in public collections worldwide, including those of MoMA-Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Huis Marseille, Amsterdam, MUSAC - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain, Tate Modern, London, and The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen.
Shirana Shahbazi was introduced by Deweer Gallery in the group exhibition ‘Structures for viewing’(2014). In September 2014 the gallery presented her first one-person show in Belgium. And in October 2014 Shirana Shahbazi had big show at the Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland.