Katrina Daschner
Shedhalle Zurich, Switzerland
9 July - 20 September 2026
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… (16 April - 14 June 2026), 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.
Chorós (9 July - 20 September 2026) unfolds within the infrastructure laid down earlier in Shedhalle’s programme. The Re-Props — modular works that function at once as artworks and as exhibition architecture — return here, reconfigured, to stage the gathering. They appear, recede, and reappear from one chapter to the next, carrying the memory of previous arrangements into the present one.
Like the programme it belongs to, Chorós is conceived not as a finished exhibition but as a staging — a durational, evolving arrangement that gathers voices over time. To speak all at once, after all, is not to agree: it is to make room for many moods, registers, and truths within a single shared space.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.
