فير زملر غاليري Sfeir-Semler Gallery

Ania Soliman

Ania Soliman (b. 1970, Warsaw, Poland) is an Egyptian/Polish/American artist who grew up in Baghdad and is currently based between Paris and New York. Her practice encompasses large-scale drawings and paintings derived from AI-generated imagery and archival material, extending into text, performance, video, and installation. Soliman's research-based work explores cultural translation, examining how representations mediate our relationships with nature and technology. Read more

Through intricate processes of tracing, desaturating, smudging, coloring, and embellishing, she transforms source materials into layered works. These pieces serve as icons for healing processes within unconscious negotiations between bodies and the culturally and digitally determined languages inhabiting our minds.

Her current project investigates intersections of AI, psychoanalysis, and painting, in order to visualize and transform a global digital unconscious.

Ania Soliman’s work has been exhibited at Misk Art Institute, Riyadh, (2024), Castello di Rivoli, Turin (2023, 2018), Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres (2022), Kunsthaus Bregenz (2020), the Drawing Center in New York (2020, 2010), the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg (2016), the Museum of Contemporary Art at Antwerp (2015), the Whitney Biennial (2010), the 14th Istanbul Biennial (2015), the Museum der Kulturen in Basel (2014), among other venues. She attended Harvard College and Columbia University before participating in the Whitney Independent Study Program. In 2010 she was awarded the Laurenz-Haus residency in Basel, Switzerland.

1/5Ania Soliman, Freud's desk, 2013, pencil and encaustic on paper, 65 × 88 cm
2/5Ania Soliman, Explaining Dance to a Machine, 2016, pencil, encaustic and pigment on paper, 260 × 114 cm
3/5Ania Soliman, Flow, 2017, HD video, color, sound, 10'
Ania Soliman, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, 2022
4/5Ania Soliman, Terraform 1 (everyone-zoospore, recovery-whew), 2022, colored pencil, encaustic, acrylic ink on paper, 4 panels, 280 × 115 cm each
5/5Ania Soliman, Kahrabaa’, mixed media installation, various dimensions

Selected Press

Gallery Exhibitions

Exhibitions Beyond

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2022

  • terraform, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon

2017

  • Explaining Dance to a Machine, Galerie Sfeir-Semler Hamburg

2015

  • Inside the Thing is Nothing, Salt Walter, 14th Istanbul Biennial, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

2014

  • Semiwild, Museum of Cultures, Basel, Switzerland

2010

  • Body Riot, Bollag Project Room, Basel, Switzerland

2000

  • Biohazards, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

  • The Silent Age of Singularity, Misk Art Institute, Riaydh, KSA

2021

  • 100 Drawings from now, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

2020

  • Unprecedented Times, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

  • WHERE THE LEMONS BLOOM…, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2019

  • Age of You, Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, Toronto, Canada

2018

  • Metamorphoses - Let Everything Happen to You, Castello Di Rivoli, Italy

2016

  • BLIND DATE, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Beirut, Lebanon

  • 1000m2 of desire, Center of Contemporary Cultura, Barcelona, Spain

  • Art-Music-Dance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

2015

  • Lodgers, MUHKA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium

2012

  • Nos hicimos la ilusion de avanzar directamente, Espai Cultural, Caja Madrid, Barcelona, Spain

2010

  • Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

2008

  • HYBRID III: Eurographic, a Cultural Bridge Across Europe, Cartwright Gallery, Bradford, England

2006

  • Salad Days, Artists Space, New York, USA

  • When artists say "WE", Artists Space, New York, USA

2002

  • Inscribing the temporal, 3 New York artists' collectives, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria

  • 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

Awards and Residencies

2015

  • Adam Mickiewicz Foundation 

  • AIR Antwerp / MUHKA

2009

  • Laurenz Foundation Residency, Basel, Switzerland

2005

  • Skowhegan Residency, New York, USA

1999

  • Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art, USA

Public Collections