Shahana Rajani

Shahana Rajani graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Cambridge (2009) and a master’s degree in Critical and Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia (2013). Her artistic work uses curatorial strategies to generate counter-geographies in countries of the global south and alternate discourses on their cities. Alongside performance, for instance in the form of “Radical City Tours” through Karachi, she also works with print media and the internet. Shahana Rajani is a member of the “Tentative Collective”, an artist group that creates interdisciplinary projects in public space. Aside from her artistic work, the artist is also active in the area of art education as a founding member of the initiative “Bachon se Tabdili”. In 2016, together with Sonya Schönberger, she is presenting the audio city tour “I would always dream of my house – Stories of displacement” at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, as part of the festival “From Inside to Way Out”.