Yulia Ani is a visual artist who lives and works in Berlin. She is an artist who always raises a question about the nature of image-making, authorship, and the remaining human presence in the digital age, based on abstract painting.

Her latest practice, “Human Layer,” is an exploration of the tension between anonymously generated images and abstraction as a direct form of human expression. From her recent methodology—utilizing AI models to create apocalyptic landscapes, printing them on canvas or paper, and then painting abstract compositions over them—the artist tries to bring the interplay of technology and intuition back to our reality. The desolation of the synthetic landscapes, marked by traces of human presence, is continuously confronted with her expressive, painterly gestures. She describes her work as a space where the accumulated visual memory of humanity buried within algorithms is given a new, emotional intensity through the immediacy of color and form. Her work is rooted in the balance between spontaneity and control, merging algorithmic imagery within the form of intuitive abstract painting.

Ani has exhibited her work extensively in Germany and internationally. She has been invited to exhibitions and collaborations at Bethanien Studio 1, Galerie Grolman, SLP Gallery, Haze Gallery, New & Abstract Gallery, the Every Woman Biennial at Copeland Gallery in London, as well as the Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt and many other exhibitions.

Education & Training

2025

Private mentoring by Giulia Colletti (Curator and Art Historian), Italy

Artist-in-Residence, Bonfire

2024

Artist-in-Residence, GlogauAir, Berlin

2023–2024

Private mentoring by Karolina Peskisheva (Art Historian), Vienna School of Arts / MSU

Painting Studies, SKBG, Berlin

Formal Art Education, Moscow, Russia

Exhibition & Projects (Selection)

2026

Group Show #17, New and Abstract, Berlin, Germany

Galleri Heike Arndt, Berlin, Germany

2025

Shelter, GlogauAir, Berlin, Germany

Kokon (Duo), Galerie Grolman, Berlin, Germany

Dream Gap, Gewölbekeller, Berlin, Germany

2024

Group Exhibition #4, New and Abstract, Berlin, Germany

The moment when... (Solo), GlogauAir, Berlin, Germany

BAAM #8, Berlin, Germany

Einsamkeit des Konsumes, Bethanien Studio 1, Berlin, Germany

48 Stunden Neukölln, LiTE-HAUS Gallery, Berlin, Germany

BAAM #7, Monopol, Berlin, Germany

Parallel Realities, Haze Gallery at QGallery, Berlin, Germany

Convergence (Duo), SLP Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2023

Paper Edition by BAAM, POP KUDAMM art space, Berlin, Germany

Body Alchemy, Haze Gallery at Retramp Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Discovery Art Fair Frankfurt, represented by Haze Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany

BAAM #5, Berlin, Germany

Triumph of the Women, Haze Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Round + Round, LiTE-House Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2022

BAAM #4, Moos Space, Berlin, Germany

Die Farbe, LiTE-House Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Solo Exhibition, Boxi Espresso, Berlin, Germany

Imigration, Forum Lichtenberg, Berlin, Germany

Heartburn Project, Theaterhaus Berlin, Germany

2021

Every Woman Biennial, Copeland Gallery, London, UK

The One Who Watches Earthmen, ZDES na Taganke Gallery, Moscow, Russia

What Is Art, Boomer Gallery, London, UK

Emerging Artists 2021, dōdōmu Gallery (Online)

The Heart, The Art Therapy Institute, NC, USA