About
Dima Srouji is an architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a space for potential collective repair. Srouji looks for ruptures in the ground where imaginary liberation is possible. She works with glass, text, archives, maps, plaster casts, and film, understanding each as an evocative object and emotional companion that help her question what cultural heritage and public space mean in the context of the Middle East, especially in Palestine. Her projects are developed closely with archaeologists, anthropologists, sound designers, 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, and Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary.
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 appears in multiple platforms including The Avery Review, Migrant Journal, and The Architecture Review of New York.
Current & Upcoming
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.
Recent
2024
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.
December 2023: The Red River, Green Snake, Tai Kwun Museum, Hong Kong. Curated by Kathryn Weir.
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
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: On Foraging, Warehouse421, Abu Dhabi (co-curator)
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
2019: Depth Unknown, Sharjah Architecture Triennial