About
Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and visual artist exploring cultural heritage as a space for potential collective repair. Srouji looks for ruptures in the ground where imaginary liberation is possible. She works with physical and ephemeral materials from Palestine understanding each as an evocative object and emotional companion the help her restitch endangered histories. Her projects are developed closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, sound designers, stone masons and glassblowers.
She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2022-2023 and is currently leading studio Underground Palestine in MA City Design at the Royal College of Art in London.
Her work is part of the permanent collections at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Victoria & Albert Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Art Jameel, and the Sharjah Art Foundation.
She has exhibited works at the 60th Venice Art Biennale, Sharjah Art Biennial 15, Lagos Biennial 2024, Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019, the first Islamic Art Biennale 2023, the first Doha Design Biennale, at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Ford Foundation Gallery, Tai Kwun Museum, Institut du Monde Arabe, Alserkal Arts Foundation, Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati and others.
Her writing has appeared in multiple platforms, including The Architectural Review, The Avery Review, Migrant Journal, and The Architecture Review of New York.
2025
Upcoming:
10 October - 29 November 2025: A Cosmogram of Holy Views, Solo at Ab-Anbar Gallery. London, UK.
October- December: Palestine Public Cinema Programme at Tick Tack Gallery in Antwerp, Belgium.
30 October 2025: We-Refuse_d, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. Doha, Qatar.
5 November 2025 - 1 March 2026: The Long Now (Saatchi 40th anniversary), Saatchi Gallery. London, UK.
28 November 2025 - 17 May 2026: Can We Stop Killing Each Other?, Sainsbury Centre. Norfolk, UK.
30 November 2025: Phoenix Rising: Gaza Unearthed, Palestinian Museum. Birzeit, Palestine.
13 December 2025 - 30 April 2026: Amphibian Aesthetics, Kochi - Ishara Foundation. Kochi, India.
13 December 2025 - 30 April 2026: Air of Palestine / Air of Kochi, Time Reclaiming Structures / Birdhouses, in collaboration with Piero Tomassoni, Kochi Biennial. Kochi, India.
2026
Upcoming:
January 2026: Of the Earth, Diriyah Art Futures. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
April 16 - June 30, 2026: Goddess of Love & War, Doha Biennial. Doha, Qatar.
Upcoming October Events:
11 October 2025 4:00 PM: Artist-Led Exhibition Tours: Dima Srouji & Marlon de Azambuja, Ab-Anbar Gallery 34 Mortimer Street London W1W 7JS United Kingdom. RSVP Here
24 October 2025 4:00 PM: Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time, Kanner Forum Lecture Performance by Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji. Lani Hall - Herb Alpert School of Music, UCLA. RSVP Here
25 October 2025 12:15 PM: Jasbir K. Puar and Dima Srouji Keynote Performance, ASAP/16 Conference: Worldmaking/Worldbreaking. Rice University, Houston, Texas.
2024
November 20th-November 24th, 2024: Maternal Labour and Ruler of Superposition II, Abu Dhabi Art with Lawrie Shabibi
November 27th- April 17th, 2025: We Saw an Endless Cycle, Hayy Jameel in Jeddah
November 14th-February 15th, 2025: 93 Fragments, Washington Project for the Arts at Gallery 1 Flagg Building, George Washington University Corcoran School of Art & Design
February 2024: Transparent Histories: Maintaining the Sacred II, Arab Design Now, Design Doha Biennial, Doha Qatar. Curated by Rana Beiruti.
February 2024: This is not Your Grave, Public Art Commission, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai. Curated by Zoe Whitley.
April 2024: 60th Venice Biennale:
South West Bank Landworks, Collective action and Sound
Artists + Allies x Hebron, Dar Jacir
Magazzino Gallery, Palazzo Polignac, Dorsoduro 878. Curated by Jonathan Turner
When Solidarity is Not a Metaphor, Alserkal Arts, Navy Officers’ Club
Curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
May 7th, 2024: Charts for a Ressurection, Solo at Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai.
May 11th, 2024: A Recipe for Happiness (2020), part of As We Move Away From the Sun curated by Fatma Hendawy, Allan Gardens, 160 Gerrard St. East, Toronto, Ontario.
February 2024: Ford Foundation Gallery, New York. Curated by Beya Othmani.
February 2024: She Still Wears Kohl and Smells Like Roses, Lagos Biennial. Curated by Kathryn Weir.
September 26th-February 11th, 2024: The Scent Collection, PARFUMS D'ORIENT, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris.
September 22nd-January 28th, 2024: Dithyramb, A Permanent Nostalgia for Departure: A Rehearsal on Legacy with Zaha Hadid, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. Curated by Maite Borjabad.
2023
December 2023: The Red River, Green Snake, Tai Kwun Museum, Hong Kong. Curated by Kathryn Weir.
September 16th-October 15th, 2023: She Still Wears Kohl and Smells Like Roses, LDF at the V&A Museum
2023: Revolutionary Enclosures (When the Apricots) with Jasbir Puar, Commission, Sharjah Art Biennial
2023: Maintaining the Sacred, Islamic Art Biennial, Jeddah. Curated by Sumayya Valley.
October 9-15th 2023: Maternal Exhumations, Untitled (Radical Objecthood). Artvisor, 60 Curzon Street. Curated by Piero Tomassoni.
2023: And the Mirrors Are Many, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi
2022-2023: Victoria & Albert Museum Jameel Fellow
2022
2022: Fragments of a Continuous Modernity -A People by the Sea, Palestinian Museum.
2022: Nostalgia Interrupted, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Toronto.
2020: Sebastia, E-Flux
2022: Nomination and shortlisting as a finalist for the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative.
2021
2021: Once Upon a Solidarity, Saudi Modern, Bricklab, Jeddah
2021: The Remains of Na’amein, Brooklyn Pop-UP.
2021: Still Pasts, Imagining the Holy x Reel Palestine Series- GPP Alserkal, Dubai
2020: A Recipe for Happiness, Weed Control, Qattan Foundation, Ramallah
Contact
sroujidima@gmail.com or dima.srouji@rca.ac.uk.
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