Vishal Shah is a multidisciplinary artist and the Managing & Creative Director of BBA Gallery, currently based in Berlin. Born in Mumbai, he was raised and began his early artistic practice in London, where he lived for the majority of his life before relocating to Berlin. As a conceptual artist, Vishal's independent work is driven by ideas, storytelling, and personal mythologies.

Parallel to his artistic endeavours, Vishal boasts a rich background in creative direction, spanning both commercial and independent projects. He has directed and produced moving image work for international screenings, and visual music events, broadcast television across Europe, America, and Asia. Vishal has also shared his extensive knowledge as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London, and as an Adjunct Professor at Richmond, The American International University in London.

Education

MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK
BA Fine Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

Exhibitions, Screenings & Fairs

2025

BBA Prizes 10 Year Anniversary Exhibition, BBA Gallery, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany

2024

Vellum, Jelmoni Gallery, Piacenza, Italy

Noise_Media Art Fair, Kadıköy City Museum, Istanbul, Türkiye

Petit Format, Bermel Von Luxburg Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

Art Market Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

ARTMUC Kunstmesse, Munich, Germany

Summer Special Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2022

BBA Editions, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2021

BBA 2020, Group Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2019

It Might Blow Up, But It Won’t Go Pop, Solo Show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Poetics of Change, Fann A Porter Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2018

Sluice - Exchange Berlin, Kühlhaus Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2017

BB17, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Field Works - Arts & Ethics Research Group of Edinburgh University. BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2016

Elektramusic Vidéomusique 2 (#17), Résonances Electriques, Strasbourg, France

13th World Congress of the International Association of Bioethics, Arts + Ethics Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK

Uncharted Territories, Solo show, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Athens Digital Arts Festival #ADAF2016 - Screening: Pop Apocalyptic - After Dark, Athens, Greece

Seeing Sound 4 - 2016 Screenings, curated by Professor Joseph Hyde, Bath Spa, UK

Awards

William Latham Digital Arts Award, Director of Computer Artworks Ltd

Publications (Selected)

Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, Arabia, Spring Issue

The Romance, An Episode in the Life of a Young Writer (an Abstract Episode). 

Grey Love, Selected Prose. 

No Looking Back, Selected Poems.