Aria Gilani (US) is an architect and artist working across performance, scenography, and curation. Trained first as a journalist and later as an architect, she follows the thread of space as both subliminal framing device and overt enabler of every form of living relation.

She has worked with art collectives, theatres, museums, and communities in the forms of set and exhibition design, text both fictive and descriptive, and image-based, sensorily-attuned architectural work. All is done in favor of what she finds most beautiful in chaotic times: to translate the complexities of love, hope, and belief into dramatic and emotive gestures that remain true to the now, carefully attentive to the next. She lives and works in Berlin.