Front Row | Working across performance, film, photography and installation, artist Tai Shani has steadily developed an intoxicating mythology. With experimental writing as a guiding method, Shani’s texts create poetic coordinates in order to cultivate fragmentary cosmologies of marginalised nonsovereignty. Taking cues from both mournful and undead histories of reproductive labour, illness and solidarity, her work is invested in recovering feminised aesthetic modes – such as the floral, the trippy or the gothic – in a register of utopian militancy.

Her long-term projects work through historical and mythical narratives, such as Christine de Pizan’s allegorical city of women or the social history of psychedelic ergot poisoning. Shani’s projects examine desire in its (infra-)structural dimension, exploring a realism that materially fantasises against the patriarchal racial capitalist present.

Tai Shani is the joint 2019 Turner Prize winner together with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her work has been shown extensively in Britain and internationally.

About FRONT ROW

FRONT ROW is a monthly series of artist’s talks jointly organised by Muhka and NICC. Serving as an open format to artists – whether a talk, a presentation of an idea, a lecture performance – the programme offers the opportunity to reflect on art, culture and society by some of the most thought-provoking artists practising today.

Sit in the FRONT ROW and enjoy a complimentary drink on us.

Practical information:
Thursday 26 February 2026
during Muhka Late
19:00 – 20:30
Location: in the Muhka-auditorium (3rd floor)
Free entrance, reserve your spot here

https://www.muhka.be/en/activities/front-row-with-tai-shani/

Artists: Tai Shani