Katrina Daschner
Shedhalle Zurich, Switzerland
16 April - 14 June 2026
Founded in 1980, Shedhalle Zurich supports long-term experimentation, collaboration and socially engaged art practices. Rather than traditional exhibitions, Shedhalle hosts both process-oriented and participatory projects and performances. The institution structures its programming in five-year cycles and is currently in its first year of programming under the new curatorial direction of Laura Amann Marín and Jen Kratochvil.
For the exhibition AAAND SCENE / UND SZENE… three lake-like settings spread across the space, each built around an organically shaped reflective dance surface, recycled from a theatre production and holding the memory of endless hours of rehearsing and performing. Each lake is divided into two: either by a curtain holding screens or a curtain by itself. Surrounding the lakes stand Bewitched Antlers (2026) – branches cast in aluminium, named after celestial bodies, petrified remnants of the natural world left in a particular kind of limbo, holding cascades of yarn and coloured glass that catch and scatter light across the space. The curtains – Las Vegas (2026), in nightblue-silver or black-silver foil – complete the nocturnal atmosphere.
Katrina Daschner (born 1973 in Hamburg, Germany) lives and works in Vienna. She is an artist and filmmaker whose practice spans sculpture, performance and film. Themes that Daschner investigates include sexuality, power structures and queer-feminist (body) politics, often translating theatrical acts into exhibition contexts. She studied sculpture and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and co-founded the performance space Salon Lady Chutney in Vienna.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
