Imagine: A wall-mounted bathroom mirror-cabinet with an engraved mirror showing a multilayered image, with the door ajar to reveal small sculptures inside. For "Chorós: Speaking All at Once" curator Aziza Harmel (DAI, 2015) and artist Alice Speller (DAI, 2020) are collaborating on one single character. In the theatre of ancient Greece, the chorós was a voice of the collective: a group that moved and spoke together, commenting on the drama before them and giving form to the doubts and desires of the community. Where that ancient chorus often spoke as one, lets its many voices sound simultaneously — in unison and in dissonance, in agreement and in argument. Like the programme it belongs to, Chorós is conceived not as a finished exhibition but as a staging — a durational, evolving arrangement that gathers voices over time. To speak all at once, after all, is not to agree: it is to make room for many moods, registers, and truths within a single shared space. The exhibition “Chorós: Speaking All at Once / Alle zugleich” is on view at Shedhalle until September 20, 2026.
Across the exhibition, a cast of recurring characters moves between the works on view, mediating between what is shown and those who come to see it — among them The Hypocrite, The Letter Y, The Listener, The Paranoid, Sappho, The Piss Goblin, or a horde of Zombies. Authored by the participating artists, writers, and collaborators, these figures turn the exhibition into a polyphony: a space where many positions speak together without collapsing into a single message.
Chorós unfolds within the infrastructure laid down earlier in Shedhalle’s programme. The Re-Props — modular works that function at once as artworks and as exhibition architecture — return here, reconfigured, to stage the gathering. They appear, recede, and reappear from one chapter to the next, carrying the memory of previous arrangements into the present one.
Participating artists:
Levin Stettler Brogli
Benjamin Egger
Christian Falsnaes
Juliana Gleeson
Ji-Yoon Han
Johanna Hedva
Barbara Kapusta
Ingo Niermann
Aaiún Nin
Ruth Novaczek
Maja Smrekar
Sráč Sam
Miriam Stoney
The exhibition is curated by the new directorial team at Shedhalle Zurich, Laura Amann Marín & Jen Kratochvil.
