Ana Sneeringer Brings The Inner Negotiation to London’s D Contemporary
The Slovenian-American painter joins ten international artists in Dreams Without Borders II, curated by Sonia Borrell, October 9–23, 2026.
What happens when an artwork leaves the quiet of the studio and enters a room filled with other artists, new surroundings, and unfamiliar eyes? This question sits at the heart of Dreams Without Borders II, an upcoming group exhibition at D Contemporary in London, curated by Sonia Borrell and presented through Studio to Gallery.
Opening October 9, the exhibition brings together ten international artists whose practices move across abstraction, figuration, sculpture, installation, and other forms of visual expression. Rather than asking the artists to fit into one shared style, Dreams Without Borders II gives space to the distinct visual languages they have developed through years of experimentation. The exhibition considers what happens when works created through private processes of making, testing, changing, and revisiting are finally placed into conversation with one another and with an audience.
Among the participating artists is Slovenian-American painter Ana Sneeringer, whose figurative oil paintings bring a more intimate, psychologically charged dimension to the exhibition. Her women often appear caught somewhere between openness and self-protection, their gestures and surroundings carrying a quiet emotional tension. In Sneeringer’s work, strength does not always arrive loudly. Sometimes it appears as uncertainty, restraint, observation, or simply the decision to remain present.
The exhibition brings different artistic languages into conversation, exploring boundaries between abstraction and figuration, cultures, and individual approaches to making. Within this setting, Sneeringer’s figurative paintings examine the negotiations between freedom and control, vulnerability and protection, and the desire to be seen while remaining guarded.
Inside The Inner Negotiation
In The Inner Negotiation, women inhabit psychologically charged spaces where familiar objects and gestures become emotionally significant. Gloves, pearls, and other recurring forms carry shifting associations rather than fixed symbolic meanings. The paintings leave their relationships unresolved, allowing viewers to recognize tensions through their own experiences.
“I’m interested in the conversations we carry silently within ourselves,”
Sneeringer says.
“In my paintings, strength does not have to announce itself. It can be quiet, uncertain, and still deeply present.”
Sneeringer’s interest in human behavior began during her career in Slovenian television, where she worked as a journalist, producer, and host. At 29, she left Slovenia and began a life across cultures, living in Jordan, France, Russia, the Dominican Republic, the Netherlands, India, and the United States. She began painting in the Dominican Republic without formal art training, gradually turning a personal means of expression into an international artistic practice.
Repeatedly rebuilding her life in unfamiliar places shaped her attention to identity, belonging, and the ways people understand themselves. Now based in Alabama, she works primarily in oil, developing her compositions through an intuitive process of addition, removal, and revision.
Her work entered the collection of the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, India, in 2020. She participated as a VIP Artist at the Urban Art Fair in Paris in 2025, and her work has appeared in various international art and interior magazines. The participating artists are Anese Cho, Yoav Brener, Visi Almagro, Nicole Tijoux, Joan Maureen Collins, Lee Ghilain, Paula Borsetti, Maria Cohen, Ana Sneeringer, and Samantha Davies.
A Quiet Conversation Within a Larger Exhibition
At D Contemporary, Sneeringer’s paintings will sit alongside the work of Anese Cho, Yoav Brener, Visi Almagro, Nicole Tijoux, Joan Maureen Collins, Lee Ghilain, Paula Borsetti, Maria Cohen, and Samantha Davies. The artists approach making from very different directions, with practices spanning abstraction, painting, sculpture, installation, and textile-based work.
The exhibition’s title, Dreams Without Borders, feels particularly fitting for a group brought together through such varied artistic and cultural experiences. Here, borders are not simply geographical. They can exist between private and public life, between abstraction and figuration, between certainty and experimentation, and between the artist’s original intention and the meaning a viewer eventually finds.
For Sneeringer, that space between what is known and what remains unresolved is central to the work. Her paintings ask viewers to slow down and look a little longer. A pearl may simply be a pearl, or it may become something more personal. A gesture may suggest confidence, hesitation, protection, or vulnerability. A familiar object can suddenly feel emotionally loaded.
Nothing needs to be fully explained. Instead, the paintings leave the door open for the viewer to recognize something of their own inner conversations within them.
Dreams Without Borders II will be on view at D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9HP, from October 9–23, 2026. Curated by Sonia Borrell, the exhibition opens on October 9, with the opening reception scheduled from 3–6 p.m. Visits are by appointment. The participating artists are Anese Cho, Yoav Brener, Visi Almagro, Nicole Tijoux, Joan Maureen Collins, Lee Ghilain, Paula Borsetti, Maria Cohen, Ana Sneeringer, and Samantha Davies
Exhibition: Dreams Without Borders II
Curator: Sonia Borrell
Dates: October 9–23, 2026
Opening reception: October 9, 3–6 p.m.
Venue: D Contemporary, 1 Birdcage Walk, London SW1H 9HP
Visits: By appointment
Media contact:
Ana Sneeringer
hi@anasneeringer.com · www.anasneeringer.com
High-resolution artwork images, captions, and interviews are available upon request.
Exhibition information:
https://www.dcontemporary.com/dreamswithoutbordersii
