Name: FRONT ROW - Artist Talk with Tai Shani
Start: 2026-02-26T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-02-26T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium

Our second artist talk of the year features Tai Shani. This talk will be moderated by NICC.
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.
𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Thursday 26 February 2026
during M HKA Late
19:00 – 20:30
Location: in the Muhka-auditorium (3rd floor)
Free entrance, reserve your spot here 👉 https://www.eventbrite.be/e/tickets-front-row-met-tai-shani-1980622799109?aff=oddtdtcreator
𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗙𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗧 𝗥𝗢𝗪
FRONT ROW is a monthly series of artist’s talks jointly organised by M HKA 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.