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Mounira Al Solh

Mounira Al Solh

Lebanese-Dutch visual artist

Mounira Al Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist. She is represented by Sfeir-Semler Gallery.[1]

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Life and education

Mounira Al Solh was born to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother.[2] In 1989, during the Lebanese Civil War, her family left Beirut and emigrated to Damascus in Syria. Al Solh studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut (1998 until 2001) and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (2003–2006), and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (2007–2008).[3] She lives and works in Beirut and Amsterdam.[4]

Work

Al Solh creates artworks on paper, performances, embroidery and film works about the topics of trauma, loss, migration and memory, inspired by the ongoing conflict situation in the Middle East.[5] She treats these topics in a fictional, not documentary way.[6]

In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic).[7] She co-founded NOA Language School in Amsterdam in 2013.[8]

She had solo exhibitions at (among others) BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2022),[5] Art Institute of Chicago (2018), and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013). She participated in documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017)[9] and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).

In 2024, Mounira al Solh was selected to represent Lebanon in the 60th Venice Biennale.

Awards

She is the winner of the ABN AMRO Art Award (2023), is one of seven shortlisted artists for the Artes Mundi 10 prize (2023); received the Uriôt Prize from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (2007) and the Black Magic Woman Award, Amsterdam (2007). She was also shortlisted for the Abraaj Group Art Prize., Dubai (2015) and nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs,[10] Amsterdam (2009). Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil (2007).

Exhibitions

  • 2024 Lebanese Pavillon, La Biennale Di Venezia 2024 [11]
  • 2024 Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
  • 2024 Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 2023 Pocket Rhythms, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg[12]
  • 2023 Dream City Festival, Tunis, Tunisia
  • 2023 Artes Mundi 10, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  • 2023 Choreographies of the Impossible, 35th Bienal De São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
  • 2023 My past is a foreign country, DEO Projects, Temenos Hamidiye & Ottoman Baths, Chios, Greece
  • 2023 Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • 2022 13 April, 13 April, 13 April, Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany
  • 2022 A day is as long as a year, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, United Kingdom
  • 2020 MAM Screen 013: Mounira Al Solh, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
  • 2019 The Mother of David and Goliath, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon[13]
  • 2018 Artist’s Rooms, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
  • 2018 I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar
  • 2018 I strongly believe in our right to be frivolous, The Art Institute Chicago
  • 2016 I Want to Be a Party, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany[14]
  • 2016 I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous, Alt Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2014 All Mother Tongues are Difficult, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon[15]

References

  1. [1]
    "Sfeir-Semler Gallery official website".
  2. [2]
    Malbert, Roger; Gilman, Claire (2023-04-26). Drawing in the Present Tense. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 978-0-500-77822-7.
  3. [3]
    "Mounira Al Solh". Dutch Art Institute. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  4. [4]
    "Mounira Al Solh". Sharjah Art Foundation. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  5. [5]
    "Mounira Al Solh". BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  6. [6]
    "Mounira al Solh". Framer Framed. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  7. [7]
    "NOA Magazine".
  8. [8]
    "People – Sharjah Art Foundation". www.sharjahart.org. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  9. [9]
    "Mounira Al Solh". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  10. [10]
    Bem, Merel; Dost, Lennard; de Vries, Marina (2010-03-25). "Nominaties Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-12-02.
  11. [11]
    "La Biennale Di Venezia 2024".
  12. [12]
    "Pocket Rhythms 2023".
  13. [13]
    "https://www.sfeir-semler.com/beirut/exhibition/mounira-al-solh-1". {{cite web}}: External link in |title= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help)
  14. [14]
    "I want to be a party 2016".
  15. [15]
    "All Mother Tongues are Difficult 2014".
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