Selma Feriani Gallery

What Selma Feriani Gallery does

Selma Feriani Gallery is an independent, privately-held contemporary art gallery founded in 2009 and headquartered at 32 Rue Ibn Nafis in the La Goulette district of Tunis, Tunisia. The gallery represents and promotes contemporary artists primarily from North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the broader MENA region, with a roster that includes Massinissa Selmani, Nicène Kossentini, Zineb Sedira, Amina Saoudi Aït Khay, Sara Ouhaddou, Pascal Hachem, Malek Gnaoui, M'Barek Bouhchichi, and Monia Ben Hamouda, among others. The gallery operates without government support and functions as a private initiative building Tunisia's contemporary art infrastructure, with a stated focus on practices including drawing, installation, photography, video, sculpture, and performance.

The gallery's commercial operations are anchored by commission-based art sales to private collectors and institutions, supplemented by participation in leading international art fairs (Frieze London, Paris+ by Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi Art Fair) and an artist residency program. Its website and gallery management are powered by the Artlogic platform, a standard third-party SaaS used across the gallery industry. Pricing is inquiry-based rather than publicly disclosed, consistent with the primary art market norm.

Distribution and visibility are built through a network of high-prestige institutional partnerships and placements, including Fondazione Bvlgari (Venice Biennale collateral), Fondation H (Antananarivo/Paris), Monnaie de Paris, Louvre-Lens, Tate Britain (Duveen Galleries Commission 2026), and the 61st Venice Biennale. The gallery's customer base is bifurcated between private collectors (with a noted new generation of finance-background buyers) and museums/institutions whose collection holdings validate the gallery's curatorial positioning rather than functioning as recurring enterprise contracts. The gallery uses a multichannel approach combining its website, email newsletter, social media (Facebook and Instagram), art fairs, and earned media to reach its audience.

Name

Selma Feriani Gallery

Legal name

Selma Feriani Gallery

Website

https://selmaferiani.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Selma Feriani Gallery is an independent Tunis-based contemporary art gallery, founded in 2009, that represents North African and Mediterranean artists and sells their work via commissions to international collectors, museums, and institutions through a single physical gallery and leading art fairs.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Contemporary Art Gallery

NAICS

Art Dealers (459920), Art Dealers (45992)

akta.pro primary industry

Art Galleries & Exhibition Spaces (Commercial & Nonprofit) (THAJADAH)

akta.pro secondary industry

Cultural Centers & Multidisciplinary Arts Institutions (THAJADAJ)

Keywords

• Contemporary art gallery
• Artist representation
• Art fair participation
• Art exhibitions
• MENA contemporary art

Headquarters

HQ city

Tunis

HQ country

Tunisia

HQ region

Africa

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Art Sales and Commissions: Primary revenue from selling artworks by represented artists, earning commissions on sales to collectors, institutions, and museums worldwide.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Selma Feriani Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Tunis, Tunisia, that represents and promotes contemporary artists primarily from North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. The gallery operates a physical exhibition space in La Goulette, Tunis, facilitates international art fair participation (Frieze London, Paris+ by Art Basel, Art Basel Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi Art Fair), and earns revenue through commissions on art sales to collectors and institutions worldwide.

Product overview

Selma Feriani Gallery is a contemporary art gallery based in Tunis, Tunisia, operating as a single-location gallery that combines physical exhibition space with artist representation, international art fair participation, and a residency program. The gallery does not operate a software platform but rather provides gallery services including exhibition curation, artist promotion, art fair representation, and newsletter distribution. The core offering centers on showcasing and representing artists primarily from North Africa and the Mediterranean region, with a focus on contemporary practices including drawing, installation, photography, video, sculpture, and performance.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gallery Exhibition Space
• Artist Representation
• Art Fair Participation
• Residency Program
• Press and Publications

Quantifiable outcome

• Artists represented at major international venues including Tate Britain, Venice Biennale, Fondazione Bvlgari

Named customers9 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor, flagship and core.

• Green Art GalleryminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaborative group exhibition partnership with Green Art Dubai, presenting works by Nazgol Ansarinia, Rossella Biscotti, M'barek Bouhchichi and other artists. Joint exhibition held January-February 2024.
• Monnaie de ParisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrestigious French cultural institution that exhibited gallery artist Pascal Hachem's 'Threaded Whole' installation/performance in November 2025.
• Fondazione BvlgariflagshipStrategic or Co-development PartnerGallery artist Monia Ben Hamouda selected for first exhibition promoted by Fondazione Bvlgari as collateral event of Biennale Arte 2026, at Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice.
• Fondation HcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerParis-based foundation hosting solo exhibitions by gallery artists including M'Barek Bouhchichi and Malek Gnaoui, providing significant institutional exposure in France.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• Taymour Grahne Projects: Gallery operating between London and Beirut focused on contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and diaspora. Overlaps on the MENA contemporary art thesis with a younger operational footprint.

Broad incumbents

• Galerie Lelong & Co. Established international gallery with Paris and New York locations representing contemporary artists with strong museum and biennale presence. Comparable institutional-collector-sales model but with a longer track record and broader roster.
• Lehmann Maupin: Major international contemporary art gallery with locations in New York, London, Seoul, and Hong Kong. Comparable model of artist representation, international art fair presence, and institutional placement strategy, though at a much larger scale and broader geographic focus.
• Pace Gallery: Global blue-chip gallery representing major contemporary artists across multiple cities. Overlaps on contemporary art representation, biennale participation, and museum placement strategy, but operates at vastly larger scale and broader portfolio.
• Galleria Continua: Internationally established gallery with locations in Italy, China, France, and elsewhere representing major contemporary artists. Comparable model of pairing emerging-market artistic identity with international institutional reach, but at significantly larger scale.

Direct peers

• Green Art Gallery: Dubai-based contemporary art gallery with parallel focus on MENA and South Asian artists. Directly comparable as a regional commercial gallery in a Gulf hub, and documented as a direct collaborative exhibition partner of Selma Feriani Gallery.
• Lawrie Shabibi: Dubai-based gallery focused on contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Directly comparable roster focus, gallery model, and participation in the same international art fairs (Frieze, Art Basel affiliates).
• The Third Line: Dubai-based gallery representing contemporary artists from the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia. Same target segment (MENA-origin contemporary art), same institutional-fair-collector distribution model, and same international art fair circuit participation.
• Athr Gallery: Jeddah-based contemporary art gallery championing Saudi and Arab artists internationally. Comparable mission of elevating Arab/MENA contemporary art, similar institutional placement strategy, and similar art fair participation.

Regional players

• Kamel Lazaar Foundation: Tunisia-based cultural foundation collecting and exhibiting modern and contemporary Arab art. Comparable regional footprint and mission to develop the North African contemporary art ecosystem, though structured as a foundation rather than a commercial gallery.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights3 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfr-fr.facebook.com/SelmaFerianiGalleryTn
• Instagraminstagram.com/selmaferianigallery/?hl=fr
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/selma-feriani-gallery

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Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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