Rana Anani

Rana Anani is a Palestinian curator and writer in visual arts and culture. She is a founding member of the Palestinian Museum (Birzeit), and Qalandiya International Biennial (Palestine), where she led the 2018 edition under the theme of Solidarity. Anani served as an associate curator of Sharjah Biennial 13 off-site project Shifting Grounds, Ramallah edition (2017).

She has curated several group exhibitions including No Boundaries, (Bethlehem, 2019), Salute to the Prisoners of Freedom, (Beirut, 2021), Mist by Shada Safadi and Akram Al Halabi (Ramallah, 2022), The Spring Exhibition (Ramallah, 2023), and the solo show Control Anatomy by Mahmoud Alhaj (Ramallah, 2024).

Anani is a fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies. and a board member at Sakakini Cultural Center in Ramallah. She edited artist Nabil Anani’s memoirs Emerging to the Light; co-authored by Throne Village Architecture and published by Riwaq; and curated The Land and I, a book on Nabil Anani’s work.