Vishal Shah

Works by Vishal Shah

Audio Video Works by Vishal Shah

It Might Blow up, But It Wont Go Pop, 2019

Installation Shots - It Might Blow up, But It Wont Go Pop, 2019

Vellum, 2016

Installation Shots - Vellum, 2016

Epoh, 2013

Exhibition and Print Shots - Epoh, 2013

Pollen, 2007

Recollection, 2010

About

Vishal Shah is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director. Mumbai born. Raised and lived a majority of his life in London. He now lives, works in Berlin and is the co-director of BBA Gallery and Prizes. With a multi-disciplinary outlook, he accomplished eight years (2003-2011) as a visiting lecturer at the Royal College of Art, London and as an Adjunct Professor at Richmond, and The American International University in London. Vishal directs and produces moving image work for international screenings and visual music events across Europe, America and Asia. His work is uniquely installed as installation art. He has gained extensive experience working as an art director for international clients and led many teams in advertising and marketing agencies throughout his career.

Vitae

Born: Mumbai, India

Lives and works: Berlin, Germany

  • MA Fine Art, Royal College of Art, London, UK

    BA Fine Art, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK

  • 2023

    BBA Editions, BBA Gallery, Berlin, Germany

    2021

    BBA 2020, 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, 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

    2015

    If Yesterday Were Today, Group Show, Berlin Germany, Barga Italy, London UK

    2014

    Gustav Metzger, Facing Extinction, Artist film programme curated by Amanda Couch, University of Creative Arts, UK

    SoundImageSound 10 International Festival of New Music & Visual Image, University of the Pacific, USA

    2013

    Projection vidéomusicale électroacoustique, Elektramusic, Geneva, Switzerland

    2012

    EMUFest 2012, International Festival of Electroacoustic Music, Rome, Italy

    2011

    Sounding Images, Altadena, California, USA

    Gare du Nord - Banhof fur Neue Musik, Basel, Switzerland

    Scream Festival: Sounding Images - Redcat, Roy and Edna Disney / Calarts Theater, Los Angeles, USA

    Understanding Visual Music, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    2010

    Recollection, Collaboration with Renata Kudlacek, Kulturzentrum Die Fabrik, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Sur les Trace de Russolo, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France

    2009

    Futurism and Memory, Bibliotheca Arts Center, Alexandria, Egypt

    Not Still Art, Curated by Carol Goss, Micro Museum, New York, USA

    Música Viva Festival - Som das Esferas, Mosteiro dos Jerónimos, Parede, Portugal

    Visual Music Marathon, Visual Arts Theatre, curated by Dr. Dennis Miller, New York, USA

    Visual Music Concert, Simon Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela

    Evolution Festival - Message in a Bottle, Lumen & The Projection Gallery, Leeds, UK

    Elektramusic, au CEAAC, Strasbourg, France

    Instant Melancholia - A Farewell to Polaroid, Raum 121, Frankfurt, Germany

    Visual Music Screening, Folkwang Hochscule Essen, Essen Univ. of Art and Theatre, Essen, Germany

    2008

    Hello - I’m not here, International group show, Raum 121, Frankfurt, Germany

    Visual Music, The Kunstverein Dresden, The society of Artists Dresden, Germany

    Sweetwater E/A Electroacoustic Music Concert #4 - Northeast Indiana, USA

    Visual Music ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany

    Magmart - Video Under Volcano, Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, Naples, Italy

    2007

    8th Seoul International Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea

    CynetArt Visual Music - 07 Encounter’, curated by Prof. Dr. Wilfried Jentzsch, Dresden, Germany

    They Do Things Differently There, The Crypt, St Pancras, London, UK

    Siggraph 2007 VMM, Visual Music Marathon, San Diego, California, USA

    Visual Music Marathon, Curated by Dr. Dennis Miller, Northeastern Universty, Boston, USA

    2006

    Electronic Oasis - 19th Festival, Les Instants Video, Cinema MK2 Bibliotheque, Paris, France

    Passion - Liverpool Biennial Independents, Liverpool, UK

    Still in Motion, Video show curated by Vishal Shah, Leonard Street Gallery, London, UK

    Video Art London, Famu Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic

    Mobile, Espace Landowski, Curated by Robin Rimbaud, Paris, France

    AV Festival 06, LifeLike - digital shorts, Newcastle, Sunderland & Middlesbrough, UK

    2005

    Open Screening - Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

    International Kunst Film Biennale - Film screening, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany

    Tavistock - Short film festival, London, UK

    Armenian Centre for Contemporary Experimental Art - ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia

    2004

    Technique - Royal College of Art, London, UK

    2003

    Film, Other India’s - Film screening, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

    2002

    We Did It - Domobaal Gallery, London, UK

    3:1 Projections - Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK

    III Festival De Gravura De Evora, Portugal

  • 2019

    Harper’s Bazaar magazine, Arabia spring issue

Exhibitions