Shirin Kavin (- Winiger, born 1984 into a Swiss-Iranian family) is a self-taught artist based in Zurich. / previously living and working in Berlin (2007 – 2010) and in Vienna (2014 – 2019).

Her background is diversified. She came from dance to body piercer at a young age and later via make-up artistry to photography. It was her constant fascination for the human being, her interest in anatomical and psychological structures that drove her; in search for the raw aesthetics of nature – like the beauty of a newborn baby, right after birth, before the first wash – which she finds deeply touching.

“It is the soul becoming flesh – and vice versa.”

With an exceedingly sensitive and equally uncompromising imagery, the artist constantly devotes herself to examining human existence while experimenting with photography, sculptural objects, video, painting, poetry and mixed media installations.

She is also a loving mother of two sons.

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