Yulia Ani is a Berlin-based visual artist whose practice centers on abstract painting. Born in Russia and having lived in the United States, France, and Germany, her transnational background informs an ongoing interest in perception and the ways visual realities are constructed and interpreted.
Her work has been exhibited across Germany and internationally at galleries, institutions, and art fairs, including Bethanien (Berlin), Galerie Grolman (Berlin), Every Woman Biennial (Copeland Gallery, London), and Discovery Art Fair (Frankfurt). Her works are held in private collections worldwide.
Ani’s paintings develop through an intuitive process that balances spontaneity and control. Distorted forms, simplified shapes, vibrant color fields, and expressive lines move between figuration and abstraction. Her compositions examine how images are perceived, fragmented, and reconstructed within contemporary visual culture.
Alongside her painting practice, Ani has recently begun incorporating AI-generated imagery into selected works. She creates AI-generated photographs of synthetic landscapes and uses them as a printed ground for spontaneous abstract painting. These gestural interventions interrupt and transform the digital composition, introducing human intuition and unpredictability into algorithmically generated imagery. Ani then photographs the resulting paintings and reintroduces them into AI-based processes, where the painted abstractions are animated and translated into moving digital images. Through this cyclical process - from digital image to painting and back to digital space - abstraction shifts between material presence and synthetic visual environments.
Ani is also expanding her practice through sculptural objects and spatial installations, while curating and co-curating exhibitions that explore dialogue between different artistic media.
Exhibitions
2025
Group exhibition “Shelter”, GlogauAir, Berlin
Duo exhibiton “Kokon”, Galerie Grolman, Berlin
Group exhibiton “Dream Gap”, Gewölbekeller, Berlin
2024
Group exhibition #4, New and Abstract, Berlin
Solo exhibition “The moment when…” at GlogauAir, Berlin
BAAM #8, Berlin
“Einsamkeit des Konsumes”, Bethanien Studio 1, Berlin
48 Stunden Neukölln with LiTE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin
BAAM #7 at Monopol, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Parallel Realities”, Haze Gallery at QGallery, Berlin
Duo exhibition "Convergence" at SLP Gallery, Berlin
2023
Group Exhibition “Paper Edition” by BAAM at POP KUDAMM art space, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Body Alchemy” by Haze Gallery at Retramp Gallery, Berlin
Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, represented by Haze Gallery, Berlin
Group Exhibition BAAM #5, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Triumph of the Women”, Haze Gallery, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Round + Round”, LiTE-House Gallery, Berlin
2022
Group Exhibition BAAM #4, Moos Space, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Die Farbe”, LiTE-House Gallery, Berlin
Solo Exhibition in Boxi Espresso, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Imigration”, Forum Lichtenberg, Berlin
Group Exhibition “Heartburn Project”, Theaterhaus Berlin
2021
Every Woman Biennial, Copeland Gallery, London
ZDES na Taganke Gallery, "The One Who Watches Earthmen", Moscow
Boomer Gallery, "What Is Art", London
dōdōmu Gallery, online exhibition "Emerging Artists 2021"
The Art Therapy Institute, NC, "The Heart", USA
Publications
2024- Singulart Magazine
2024- Purplehaze Magazine, Issue #10
Residencies / Experiences
Apr-May 2025 - Aritst in recidence at Bonfire
2025 - Private mentoring by Giulia Colletti, curator and art historian, Italy.
2025 - Selected for the Jackson’s Art Prize (Extended List)
Jan-Mar 2024 - Artist in recidence at GlogauAir, Berlin
2023-2024 - Private mentoring by Karolina Peskisheva, art historian, methodologist, Vienna School of Arts, Skolkovo, Moscow State University (MSU).
Education
She completed her formal art education in Moscow, studied painting at SKBG in Berlin, and in 2024 finished the “Contemporary Art Since 1990” course at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.