Rana Anani selected as critic-in-residence for 2026

Each year, MGLC, in collaboration with the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, hosts an international art critic for a month-long residency at MGLC Švicarija. This year, the open call was prepared in partnership with Moderna galerija Ljubljana, as the residency holds a thematic focus on the role of art institutions in challenging socio-political conditions and times of crises.

In October 2026, Rana Anani from Ramallah, Palestine, will be coming to MGLC Švicarija. Anani is a curator, writer and researcher concerned with art, archives and practices of solidarity. She has collaborated with institutions and initiatives, including the Palestinian Museum, Qalandiya International, the Palestinian Pavilion at Cannes and the Sharjah Biennale 13 off-site project Shifting Grounds in Ramallah. She is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies, a Fellow at Alserkal Art Foundation and a Board Member at Sakakini Cultural Center. She is based in Ramallah.

Anani is the author of the memoir On the Ghoul’s Path (2026) by artist Sliman Mansour and editor of Nabil Anani’s memoir Exit to the Light (2019). She is an editor of Gaza: A War of Frenzied Revenge, A Collection of Policy Papers (IPS, 2025). Her contributions include Collective Study in Times of Emergency (L’Internationale, 2024) and Race, Nation, Class: Rereading a Dialogue for Our Times (HKW/Argument Verlag, 2018). She also co-authored Throne Village Architecture (Riwaq, 2003) and curated The Land and I (IPS, 2024).