After the Corpse

After the Corpse
Mahsa Aleph

curatorial support: Bettina Siegele

For her first major solo exhibition in Austria, artist Mahsa Aleph presents a continuation of her two long term projects Corpse and Remnants: Myth of House. Aleph’s artistic practice is characterized by an intensive engagement with fragments, debris and memories, along with endurance and resilience, the loss of home, and complex forms of cultural and geographical uprooting. Through this, she explores time, body, and places as interwoven entities. After the Corpse is part of the annual programme Under Pressure, curated by Bettina Siegele.

Mahsa Aleph is a Berlin-based installation artist who studied fine art at Tehran Academy of Fine Art. Her projects engage with classical Persian literature, which she reinterprets in physical form, as if transforming the abstract essence of words into something concrete and tangible. Her work focuses on existential questions about human identity and its nature, the relationship between any being and its environment. The “historical memory” of materials and objects is a key motif in her installations.
Individual exhibitions (selection): 2023 Container Made of the Contained, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (DEU); 2019 The Container Made of the Contained, Mohsen Gallery, Teheran (IRN); 2018 The Aleph Archive, Mohsen Gallery, Teheran (IRN).
Group exhibitions (selection): 2024 Be here now, Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin (DEU); The Breath of a House is the Sound of Voices Within, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DEU); 2023 Jowhar, Ars Electronica, Linz (AUT); to be or to be, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DEU); 2021 What I needed was imagination …, HBK Braunschweig (DEU), The 8th Tehran National Sculpture Biennial, Vahdat Hall, Teheran (IRN); 2018 Vicious Circle, Mahe Mehr Gallery, Teheran (IRN); 2017 The 7th Tehran National Sculpture Biennial, Teheran (IRN); 2016 Vista Prize 2017, Vista Gallery, Teheran (IRN); 2014 The Line, Matne Emrooz Gallery, Isfahan (IRN); 2013 The 4th Annual Persbook Contemporary Art Festival, Teheran (IRN), 2013 Small Paintings, Aria Gallery, Teheran (IRN).
Prizes (selection): 2023 Ars Electronica Main Award, State of the ART(ist), Linz (AUT); 2017 First Prize, 7th Tehran National Sculpture Biennial, Teheran (IRN).
Grants and Artist Residencies: 2023 research grant, Berlin Senate (DEU); 2022 Berlin Fellowship at the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (DEU); 2021 Brunswick Project Grant, HBK Braunschweig (DEU).

www.mahsaaleph.com

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This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.

OPENING
Welcoming: Benjamin Zanon (board member Künstler*innen Vereinigung Tirol)
Introduction: Bettina Siegele

EXHIBITION DATES
27.02. – 25.04.2026

Additional outreach programme:
12.03.2026 at 5.30pm guided tour with the director Bettina Siegele
25.04.2026 at 11.30am exhibition tour Art & Coffee