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 MENA, 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, 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.
Upcoming
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
2024
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