Opening: Thu, 12.03.2026, 7pm

Duration: Fri, 13.03. – Sat, 09.05.2026

Artists: Morehshin Allahyari, Soumya Sankar Bose, Chitra Ganesh, Ulrike Königshofer, Kawanabe Kyōsai, Naomi Rincón-Gallardo

Guest curator: Kinnari Saraiya

Where existing norms and orientation points become obsolete arise new possibilities for storytelling. With this thought in mind, the group exhibition She, Who Dwells in the Shadows, curated by Kinnari Saraiya, brings together six artistic positions that seek the potential of darkness and obscurity. The show stakes out forms of knowledge found outside official archives, passed down through practices of storytelling, embodiment, and cosmological imagination – from suppressed collective memories, historical blind spots, and myths to forgotten blueprints for alternative worlds. The intention is not to shed light into the darkness but to access it as a space of experience in its own right. In Saraiya’s words: “To dwell in the shadows is to accept multiplicity, to navigate by traces rather than coordinates, and to recognize obscurity as a generative condition for storytelling.”

In the framework of a collaboration between Kunstraum Niederoesterreich and Salzburger Kunstverein, Kinnari Saraiya completed a residency program in Salzburg in January 2026 to prepare She, Who Dwells in the Shadows.

Kinnari Saraiya (b. 1998 in Bombay) is a curator and artist based in London whose work centers on decolonial, feminist, and transmedia storytelling. Drawing on ancient sensorial practices and embodied knowledge, she approaches curation as a form of worldbuilding: film, installation, and virtual environments open pathways to hybrid cosmologies and reconstructed traditions. She has curated exhibitions and commissions for Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, arebyte Digital Art Centre, and Frieze Art Fair and was awarded the Frieze x Deutsche Bank Emerging Curatorial Fellowship in 2021. Kinnari currently holds the position of curator at Somerset House, London.