Sahej Rahal: Beyond the City of Time

The zine was published by Galerie Rudolfinum in its editorial series on the occasion of a major solo exhibition of Sahej Rahal, which it organized under the title Sahej Rahal: Beyond the City of Time from February 12 to May 10, 2026.

Sahej Rahal (*1988) is primarily a storyteller. He weaves together fact and fiction to create mythological worlds that unfold within the present. These myth-worlds take the shape of sculptures, performances, films, paintings, installations, video games, and AI simulation programs in which indeterminate beings emerge from the cracks between the real and the imagined. Rahal holds a Diploma in Fine Arts from the Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts, Mumbai. His participation in group and solo exhibitions include the Biennial of Moving Images 2024, Manifesta 2022, Gwangju Biennale 2021, Liverpool Biennial 2016, Kochi Biennale 2014, Vancouver Biennale 2014, the MACRO Museum Rome, ACCA Melbourne, and CCA Glasgow. He has received the Cove Park/Henry Moore Fellowship, the Akademie Schloss Solitude Fellowship, and the Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation Installation Art Grant. He won the Forbes India Art Award for best debut show in 2014 for his solo exhibition Forerunner at Chatterjee & Lal, Mumbai. Most recently he has been awarded the Eyebeam Democracy Machine Fellowship and was a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at EPFL’s College of Humanities in Lausanne. In 2024 Rahal was appointed assistant professor of digital media arts at UCLA and the UCLA Game Lab in Los Angeles.