Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi

Opening: February 28, 2026, 6 pm

For her solo exhibition in Glarus, Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (b.1995 in Ghazni, living and working in Basel and Sarnen) has produced a set of 50 collages. Condensed into a series, the project generates a distinctly personal iconography – flowers, truck collector cards, drawings, plastic packaging, the artist’s own signature, and again and again also an intimated horizon.

The project uses sheets from a dummy book block from the publication by another artist that dictates the format and number of collages. Sometimes the visual space is full of objects, sometimes a sheet is loosely painted with silver colour. Every day a collage, and then the next. The work evolves from progressively appropriating the format and the individual visual imagery, reinterpreting formal hierarchies and cloaking it with a personal rationale.

As such the title, Embarrassment of Riches, also implies a double gesture. The visual spaces alternately condense themselves or remain almost empty, leaving it open precisely whose richness is on show here, and whose embarrassment.

The exhibition was initiated by Melanie Ohnemus and is curated by Ann-Kathrin Eickhoff.

Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi (b.1995, Ghazni) lives and works in Basel and Sarnen. Her most recent solo exhibitions include: I don’t know Sitara that well. She scares the hell out of me, Shahin Zarinbal, Berlin (2025), Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi & Sem Lala, Forde, Geneva, and Public Sculpture, Amore, Basel (2024); Sin City, Auto Italia, London (2023); Don’t Build Picturesquely (with Marina Xenofontos), Hot Wheels, Athens (2022); Hymn and Silence, LC Queisser, Tiflis, and LOVE/ Terms and Conditions, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich (2021); Emmy Hennings / Sitara Abuzar Ghaznawi, Swiss Institute New York, New York (2020). Her works have been shown in numerous group exhibitions, including at: Galleria Solito, Italy, and CIBRIÁN, Spain (2025); Shahin Zarinbal, Leipzig, and LC Queisser, Tiflis (2023); Antenna Space, Shanghai (2022); Cordova Gallery, Barcelona, yaby, Madrid, and Bernheim, London (2021); Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich (2020); Fri Art Kunsthalle Fribourg, Freiburg; Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Messe Basel, Basel; Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, and Édouard Montassut, Paris (2019).

The realisation of the exhibition is made possible by the generous support of: Kanton Obwalden, Stiftung Erna und Curt Burgauer, Kunstkredit Basel-Stadt, Landis & Gyr Stiftung, Hans und Renée Müller-Meylan Stiftung, Niarchos Foundation for Young Artists