Tai Shani – M.I.A.S.M.A.
Tai Shani, M.I.A.S.M.A., exhibition view, Kunsthalle Bern, 2026. Photo: David Aebi.
Tai Shani
M.I.A.S.M.A.
Jupiter Artland will present M.I.A.S.M.A. a major exhibition by Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani, from 29 October. Co-commissioned with Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, The Busan Biennial, South Korea, and Groninger Museum, NL, the exhibition marks Jupiter’s first international co-commission and a defining expansion of the sculpture park’s curatorial reach.
First presented at Kunsthalle Bern from 12 June – 23 August 2026, M.I.A.S.M.A. (Moral Injury in the Apocalyptic Sunsets of Modernity disAssociation) reimagines the Ancient Greek tragedy Antigone for the present moment, asking who is mourned, whose deaths are made invisible, and what forms of love and resistance remain possible in an age of political, ecological and moral crisis.
The collaborative commission follows Jupiter’s presentation of Shani’s The Spell or The Dream which will be on show at the same time this Autumn. Sited in Jupiter’s orchard, this work invites audiences into a landscape-scaled meditation on suspended time, myth and collective dreaming. Jupiter Artland are thrilled to announce that The Spell or The Dream will be extended into the autumn, to be surrounded by trees bearing apples and touched by winter sunlight.
M.I.A.S.M.A. brings Shani’s feminist counter-mythologies into Jupiter’s gallery, combining sculpture, image, sound and architecture in an immersive world of grief, rebellion and transformation.
About Tai Shani
TAI SHANI (b.1976, London, raised in Goa and Brussels) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, installation, film, and experimental texts. With a poetic, exuberant visual language, she develops feminist counter-mythologies that subvert patriarchal narrative structures. Central to Shani’s body of work is the long-term project Dark Continent (DC: Productions), inspired by Christine de Pizan’s The Book of the City of Ladies, in which she designs an allegorical city of women.
Shani was awarded the Turner Prize in 2019 alongside Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Helen Cammock and Oscar Murillo. Her works have been shown internationally, including at The Cosmic House, Turner Contemporary, Tate, Serpentine Galleries, UK, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy, Grazer Kunstverein, Austria, and Tensta Konsthall, Sweden. Significant projects such as DC: Semiramis were presented at the Glasgow International Festival and The Tetley in Leeds. In 2025, she presented two highly acclaimed exhibitions, The Sun Is a Flame That Haunts The Night on New York’s High Line, and The Spell or The Dream, a large-scale audiovisual installation at Somerset House in London which is currently at Jupiter Artland.
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