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Mounira Al Solh 1978
Vit à Libanon & Nederland. Travaille dans Libanon & Nederland.
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Zeno X Gallery
Mounira Al Solh works within different media such as painting, drawing, performance and installation. Her works narrate the histories and experiences of her broad family and community but also of the people she encounters. At Documenta 14, she presented a series of portraits of Middle Eastern and North African migrants who were no longer able to live in their countries because of wars and climate change. In her painting practice, Al Solh often attempts to visualize the oral histories of (displaced) individuals. Buried Alive was created in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion in 2020 but is also a dedication to unjustly imprisoned Lebanese, Syrian and Egyptian women. The Kiss of the Revolution: Pickled references a trend of kissing on the streets of Beirut as an act of activism after the protests in 2019 as well as a traditional Lebanese and Syrian way of pickling eggplants with walnuts practiced by her Syrian grandmother. “I don’t consider this an insult.” is a self-portrait, framed in a typical decorative motif referencing early Byzantine paintings and Islamic ornamentation. It could be a metaphor for the empowering actions of women and people of the LGBTQ community during the recent revolution in Lebanon, which was responded to with arrests and killings. The Arabic texts that are usually present in her work can be read as voices shouting out confronting injustice and sexism among other things, and they are integral in the paintings and give them rhythm.
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Mounira Al Solh was born in 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon. She lives and works in Lebanon and the Netherlands. She studied painting at the University of Beirut and fine art at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She will have a solo show at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead and the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück in 2022. Previously she had solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2020), the Art Institute of Chicago (2018), Alt in Istanbul (2016), KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (2014), the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow (2013), Art in General in New York (2012) and Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2011). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2020), Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (2020), Carré d’Art - Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes (2018), Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017), the 56th Venice Biennial (2015), the New Museum in New York (2014) and the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009).
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 'Pocket Rhythms', Sfeir Semler Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
2022 'Lovers Nahawand and Saba. She sang me songs and I didn't mind', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South, Antwerp
(BE)
'A day is as long as a year', BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
2021 'MOUNIRA AL SOLH - 13 APRIL, 13 APRIL, 13 APRIL', Felix Nussbaum House / Museum of Cultural History, Osnabrück (DE)
2020 'MAM Screen 013: Mounira Al Solh', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
'Mounira Al Solh', Musée National Pablo Picasso, War and Peace Chapel, Vallauris (FR)
2019 'The Mother of David and Goliath', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
2018 'Artist's Rooms: Mounira Al Solh', Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (UAE)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (QA)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', The Art Institute, Chicago (US)
2016 'I Want to Be a Party', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', Alt Art Space, Istanbul (TR)
2014 'Now Eat My Script', KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
2012 'The Sea Is a Stereo', Grunt Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
'Dinosaurs', Art in General, New York (US)
2011 'Mounira Al Solh, René Daniëls and Bassam Ramlawi', Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 'The Sea Is a Stereo', Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (PT)
'Exhibition No. 17', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
2008 'Open Ateliers 2008', Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (NL)
2005 'Squatted Vitrine', Squat Deluxe, Rotterdam (NL)
2003 '150 Watts', Fennel Gallery, Beirut (LB)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout, Antwerp (BE)
2022 'Busan Biennale: We, on the Rising Wave', Busan, The Republic of Korea
'Interwoven Histories by Touch/Trace', Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (NL)
'(Counter) Narrative. Mounira Al Solh, Yael Bartana, Walid Raad, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE)
'A Lasting Truth Is Change', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
2021 'QALQALAH: plus d'une langue', La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (FR)
'Off Road II', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout, Antwerp (BE)
2020 'Risquons-Tout', WIELS, Brussels (BE)
'Faces: a Look at the Other', Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
'Notre monde brûle / Our world is burning', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
'QALQALAH: plus d'une langue', CRAC Occitanie, Sète (FR)
2019 'Positions #5 Telling Untold Stories', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
'Gohyang: Home', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)
'Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout', National Gallery of Iceland / Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavik (IS)
'How the Light Gets In', Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, New York (US)
2018 'Close: Drawn Portraits', The Drawing Room, London (UK)
'The Line Up: The Power of Drawing', Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
'Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout', Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad (SE)
'Picasso. A Period of Conflict & Vanishing Points', Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
2017 'Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbours', MAXXI, Rome (IT)
'From Ear to Ear', Nottingham Contemporary (UK)
'Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future for Changing the Society and Fashioning the Future', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taipei (TW)
'Action!', Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
'Suspended Territories - Artists from the Middle East and North Africa', MARTa Herford, Herford (DE)
'dOCUMENTA 14', Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens (GR)
'The Restless Earth, La Triennale di Milano', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (IT)
'Graphic Witness', The Drawing Room, London (UK)
'Art and Alphabet', Hamburger Kunsthalle (DE)
2016 'We Refugees - Of the Right to Have Rights', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 '56th Venice Biennial: All the World's Futures', Biblioteca of la Biennale, Venice (IT)
2014 'Here and Elsewhere', New Museum, New York (US)
'Drowning and swallowing this text', LACE, Los Angeles (US)
'5th Biennial Marrakech: Where are we now?', Marrakech (MA)
2012 'Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
'The Ungovernables', New Museum, New York (US)
'Dear Art', Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and Moderna Balerija, Lljubljana (SI)
2011 'I Decided Not to Save the World', Tate Modern, London (UK)
'3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art: A Rock and a Hard Place', Thessaloniki (GR)
'Beirut, project space', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
2010 'The Future of Tradition - the Tradition of Future 100 Years after the Exhibition "Masterpieces of Muhammadan art" in Munich', Haus
der Kunst, Munich (DE)
'I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs', De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
2023 'Pocket Rhythms', Sfeir Semler Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
2022 'Lovers Nahawand and Saba. She sang me songs and I didn't mind', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp South, Antwerp
(BE)
'A day is as long as a year', BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (UK)
2021 'MOUNIRA AL SOLH - 13 APRIL, 13 APRIL, 13 APRIL', Felix Nussbaum House / Museum of Cultural History, Osnabrück (DE)
2020 'MAM Screen 013: Mounira Al Solh', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
'Mounira Al Solh', Musée National Pablo Picasso, War and Peace Chapel, Vallauris (FR)
2019 'The Mother of David and Goliath', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
2018 'Artist's Rooms: Mounira Al Solh', Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (UAE)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (QA)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', The Art Institute, Chicago (US)
2016 'I Want to Be a Party', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg (DE)
'I Strongly Believe in Our Right to Be Frivolous', Alt Art Space, Istanbul (TR)
2014 'Now Eat My Script', KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (DE)
2012 'The Sea Is a Stereo', Grunt Gallery, Vancouver (CA)
'Dinosaurs', Art in General, New York (US)
2011 'Mounira Al Solh, René Daniëls and Bassam Ramlawi', Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (NL)
2010 'The Sea Is a Stereo', Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (PT)
'Exhibition No. 17', Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut (LB)
2008 'Open Ateliers 2008', Rijksakademie, Amsterdam (NL)
2005 'Squatted Vitrine', Squat Deluxe, Rotterdam (NL)
2003 '150 Watts', Fennel Gallery, Beirut (LB)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 'Works on Paper', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout, Antwerp (BE)
2022 'Busan Biennale: We, on the Rising Wave', Busan, The Republic of Korea
'Interwoven Histories by Touch/Trace', Rozenstraat - a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam (NL)
'(Counter) Narrative. Mounira Al Solh, Yael Bartana, Walid Raad, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (DE)
'A Lasting Truth Is Change', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
2021 'QALQALAH: plus d'une langue', La Kunsthalle Mulhouse (FR)
'Off Road II', Zeno X Gallery Antwerp Borgerhout, Antwerp (BE)
2020 'Risquons-Tout', WIELS, Brussels (BE)
'Faces: a Look at the Other', Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
'Notre monde brûle / Our world is burning', Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
'QALQALAH: plus d'une langue', CRAC Occitanie, Sète (FR)
2019 'Positions #5 Telling Untold Stories', Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
'Gohyang: Home', Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul (KR)
'Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout', National Gallery of Iceland / Listasafn Íslands, Reykjavik (IS)
'How the Light Gets In', Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Cornell University, New York (US)
2018 'Close: Drawn Portraits', The Drawing Room, London (UK)
'The Line Up: The Power of Drawing', Centraal Museum, Utrecht (NL)
'Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout', Ystad Konstmuseum, Ystad (SE)
'Picasso. A Period of Conflict & Vanishing Points', Carré d'Art, Nîmes (FR)
2017 'Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbours', MAXXI, Rome (IT)
'From Ear to Ear', Nottingham Contemporary (UK)
'Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future for Changing the Society and Fashioning the Future', National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts,
Taipei (TW)
'Action!', Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
'Suspended Territories - Artists from the Middle East and North Africa', MARTa Herford, Herford (DE)
'dOCUMENTA 14', Benaki Museum of Islamic Art, Athens (GR)
'The Restless Earth, La Triennale di Milano', Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan (IT)
'Graphic Witness', The Drawing Room, London (UK)
'Art and Alphabet', Hamburger Kunsthalle (DE)
2016 'We Refugees - Of the Right to Have Rights', Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (DE)
2015 '56th Venice Biennial: All the World's Futures', Biblioteca of la Biennale, Venice (IT)
2014 'Here and Elsewhere', New Museum, New York (US)
'Drowning and swallowing this text', LACE, Los Angeles (US)
'5th Biennial Marrakech: Where are we now?', Marrakech (MA)
2012 'Arab Express: The Latest Art from the Arab World', Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
'The Ungovernables', New Museum, New York (US)
'Dear Art', Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova and Moderna Balerija, Lljubljana (SI)
2011 'I Decided Not to Save the World', Tate Modern, London (UK)
'3rd Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art: A Rock and a Hard Place', Thessaloniki (GR)
'Beirut, project space', Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
2010 'The Future of Tradition - the Tradition of Future 100 Years after the Exhibition "Masterpieces of Muhammadan art" in Munich', Haus
der Kunst, Munich (DE)
'I'm Not Here. An Exhibition Without Francis Alÿs', De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
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