Daria Shoshani
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01

Girls Like Us Don't Cry

Girls Like Us Don't Cry

2025  —  Waypoint, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem

Fish tank, water, black goldfish, wood, metal, cement, polyurethane foam, silicone, textile, nylon wire

The Caryatides are crying as they carry an aquarium. The work retells narratives of womanhood and power structures while the aquarium stands for microcosm, worldmaking, and screens — the architecture of oppression and that of memory.

Photography: Hadas Hay & Idan Zarmon

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Add Water to Water

Add Water to Water

2024  —  Unstable Realities, MAXXI Museum, Rome

Video, 15 min · Cement, bricks, metal, screen, headphones

A dreamer who doesn't sleep at night and builds aquariums at day creates himself a microcosmos at home so he will never have to leave again.

Photography: Tamir Faingold & Marta Ferro

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To Whom It May Concern

To Whom It May Concern

2025  —  Waypoint, Barbur Gallery, Jerusalem

Plaster, iron, paper, concrete, nylon wire, aluminium, textile, glass

Virtuality and intimacy do meet, in the encounter between craft and pixels, touch and screens. The quilt exists in the space between flânerie and mapping, in feeling close while being far.

Photography: Hadas Hay & Idan Zarmon

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Friction, Inscription, Engraving, Scraping, Carving, Rubbing

Friction, Inscription, Engraving, Scraping, Carving, Rubbing

2025  —  Miksha, Fortress Gallery · With Nir Dellus

Plaster, 175 × 100 cm

The work begins with frottage prints the two artists collected being far away from each other. As a way of maintaining touch, the prints encapsulate direct contact being transferred through pressure. Between preservation and transformation, it records what already exists while simultaneously abstracting it.

The imprints are then translated into digital files. As pixels, they travel across continents in milliseconds. They are processed into code and sent to a CNC machine, where the image regains physical depth through carving. What begins as friction on the street returns as incision in plaster. White. Clean. Newly formed.

Photography: Hadas Hay

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1 + 1 = 11

1 + 1 = 11

2024  —  Solo Exhibition, RUFA Space, Rome

Papier-mâché, charcoal on paper and textile

A math exercise: You + me ≠ us. Embodying the paradoxical nature of togetherness — the urge to merge into a singular entity, from the prison of separateness into the prison of physical need for another.

Photography: Marta Ferro

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Future Over Past, I Will Not Turn to Salt But to Sugar

Future Over Past

2023  —  Past, Pass, Future, Export Gallery

Woodcut print on tissue paper, sugar, Jerusalem stone

The petrification of Lot's Wife, due to her inability to move on and not turn back, turns the salt pillar into a monument mirroring itself. A lesson for generations to come.

The work is a second metamorphosis in an attempt to sweeten the punishment of Lot's Wife, and accept the remains of memories as something that does not contradict the aspiration for a future. A gaze of forgiveness to the attachment to time and place, as well as the trauma that remains.

Photography: Hadas Hay

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Long Time No See

Long Time No See

2025 — Artist Book · With Lorenz Kunath

Publication, Vienna Printing Cooperative

After being invited by Vienna Printing Cooperative to make an artist book, Daria Shoshani and Lorenz Kunath — who met in 2019 in Jerusalem and hadn't seen each other since — began sending one image of an artwork per week via email. The perpetual exchange of works, words, and ideas created a visual form of communication that crossed distance and raised questions about archives and the transformation of materials into digital forms. The book Long Time No See is available here.

Photography: Lorenz Kunath

The Cave With No Name

The Cave With No Name

Parco della Cafarella  —  With Giulio Gamba

A one-evening exhibition held in a cave in Parco della Cafarella, created with Giulio Gamba. The works are site-specific, shaped during months of frequent visits. The cave itself curated the media, size, and nature of the works — the meeting between terra and subterra, light and darkness, text and subtext.

Being a narrow cave, eyes and footsteps are fundamentally co-dependent. The spectator must trespass a linear path; the order in which works are revealed — and hidden under darkness — is crucial. Visitors entered in couples, equipped with a candle, a flashlight, and a map.

Selected Works

Paintings and Drawings

Paintings and Drawings

2022–2026

Sculptures

Sculptures

2022–2026

About

Daria Shoshani (b.1998) lives in Vienna. Her practice includes mainly sculpture, painting, drawing and video. Her works are a confessional research of how immaterial aspects such as ephemerality, heritage, politics and location interact with the material figure. The interaction is retelling narratives by intertwining the mundane with the oneiric. The works recruit a childish, intuitive and dynamic visual language, often contrasting form and substance.

She has participated in various exhibitions in recent years e.g MAXXI museum (2024), Fondazione Pastificio Cerere (2024), Wasserwasser Vienna (2025), and Barbur Gallery (2025). Her duo artist book done with the painter Lorenz Kunath Long Time No See was published with Vienna Printing Cooperative (2025), other works were published with Granata, Portfolio magazine, Dito Publishing. She did her BA in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the department of general and comparative literature (2023), and graduated her MFA with excellence in the department of sculpture and installation in Rome University of Fine Arts (2025) where her thesis work The Space Between Zeros and Ones received an excellent honorarium.

Curriculum Vitae

Education and Experience

  • 2025–26
    Internship in the studio of Gelatin/Gelitin. Vienna, Austria.
  • 2024
    Internship in the stone workshop of M'artescultura. Zagarollo, Italy.
  • 2022–2024
    MA with excellence in Fine Arts — Sculpture and Installation from Rome University of Fine Arts.
  • 2020–2023
    Founder and artistic director of Cinema Rex, an independent cinema in Jerusalem.
  • 2021
    Assistant in the studio of Oren Fischer.
  • 2020
    Studio and teacher assistant in mosaic courses held Annan Ednan.
  • 2019–2023
    Studio member in Studio Strauss Collective.
  • 2017–2021
    BA with excellence in General and Comparative Literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Solo and Duo Exhibitions

Collections

  • Mareva and Arthur Essebag collection, Acer Roma, and private collections.

Residencies

Scenography

  • 2024
    Art director in short movie Birdboy directed by Marco Galleazi.
  • 2023
    Art director in short movie Digital Diary directed by Yasmin Scheft.
  • 2021
    Director and art director in Video clip The North Star for Shen.
    Art director in Video clip Yesh Hamon directed by Tamir Fainegold for musician Ziv Barashi.
    Costume Designer, short film A Silent Movie directed by Naama Shmueli.
  • 2020
    Director and art director in short movie ZOOM done with Tal Elkayam.
    Art director in web series The Whole World is a Bed directed by Roee Mashiah.
    Art director in Video clip A Vase directed by Tamir Fainegold for music duo "Kashaiof".
    Art director in short film Brightening Hour directed by filmmaker Shiri Kuban.
  • 2019
    Art director in music video Hold for Red-Axes with SIIDS Duo, Amos Peled and Nevo Revivo.
    Stage Designer, Israel Museum: Israel Festival: annual Jazz Festival — show by "Red Axes", live drawing session directed by Eden Kalif.
    Stage-designer, three days of live shows hosted by Kapitan in Teder, Tel-Aviv.
    Stage Designer in Shen's live show in Teder, Tel-Aviv.

Group Exhibitions

Screenings and Performances

  • 2026
    Add Water to Water in Smadar Festival, Jerusalem.
  • 2025
    Night of the Dead in Tel Aviv International Film Festival.
    Night of the Dead in the Jerusalem Arts Festival.
  • 2024
    Night of the Dead in Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv.
    Add Water to Water in "Bolla Blu" screening. In collaboration with Spazio Y, Rome.
    Night of the Dead in the Shaon Horef festival, Jerusalem.
    Night of the Dead in Cinema Shablulim festival, Jerusalem.
    Disjointed performed in the performance cluster festival Beyond The Pale. Rufa Space.

Awards

  • 2025
    Erasmus plus grant of a year long internship for graduates.
  • 2024
    Best experimental film award to Add Water to Water, Cinema Kanada.
    Experimentation in technique award for Add Water to Water by IUVART's "Cosa è Arte" competition in collaboration with Loveitaly and Art Centrica.

Publications

Contact [email protected] @daria.sho
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