Mounira Al Solh

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Mounira Al Solh (* 1978 in Beirut ) is a Lebanese - Dutch draftsman , video and installation artist .

education

Mounira Al Solh's family left Beirut during the Lebanese civil war in 1989 and emigrated to Syrian Damascus . Al Solh studied painting at Lebanese University in Beirut from 1998 to 2001. Subsequently, Mounira Al Solh studied fine arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam from 2003 to 2006. In 2007 and 2008 she was Research Resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. In 2012 she took part in the peaceful White March in Beirut and commemorated the civil war victims in Beirut.

She lives in Beirut and in Amsterdam .

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Mounira Al Solh deals with the current effects of flight, displacement and war. She partly processes her own experiences in a cultural nomadism .

documenta 14, Athens

Mounira Al Solh has set up an installation in Athens. A tent, embroidered by women in the refugee camps in their homeland, Lebanon, as a symbolic refuge for those uprooted by war. It wraps a table with book pages on which Al Solh wrote down the stories of the migrants she last met in Athens and Kassel. The Lebanese artist Mounira Al Solh shows huge, colorful patchwork fabric curtains and hand embroidery on fabric on which she uses Arabic, French and English lines. One encounters a comparable mess in the city of Beirut, where the three languages ​​mixed together to form a unique dialect typical of the city. It is Al Solh's protest against the destructive and inhumane conditions in neighboring Syria.

The work was exhibited at the Museum of Islamic Art in Athens.

documenta 14, Kassel

Mounira Al Solh showed a series of portraits from 2012 under the title I Strongly Believe in our Right to be Frivolus at documenta 14 in Kassel . The drawings on officially yellow paper were portraits of migrants from the Middle East and North Africa and were created in Kassel and Athens partly documented with narrated migration experiences. The drawings show people who are going through the transition from refugee to citizen of a state. Mounira Al Sohl is compiling an atlas from oral history and processing the descriptions of displaced persons. The work was shown in a glass pavilion at Kurt Schumacher-Str. shown in Kassel in the basement .

She installed Nassib`s Bakery from 2017 on the ground floor . The bakery shows Mounira Al Solh's father's bakery in Beirut before she fled. In the Lebanese bakery were Zatar spiced bread and different varieties of Mankish baked on the Saj and sold.

Exhibitions

  • 2007 Venice Biennale, Venice
  • 2007 Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
  • 2009 Arizona State University
  • 2009 El patio de mi casa , Arte Córdoba
  • 2009 As if I don't fit here , Galerie Nord, Berlin
  • 2009 Embedded Realities , Kunstraum, Düsseldorf
  • 2011 Tate Modern, London
  • 2011 Exhibition No. 17 , Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut
  • 2012 Prichard Art Gallery, Los Angeles
  • 2012 grunt gallery, The Sea Is A Stereo , Vancouver
  • 2014 Neues Museum, Arab Art , New York
  • 2014 Morocco Biennale
  • 2014 KW Institute for Contemporary Art Now eat my script , Berlin
  • 2015 Sfeir-Semler Gallery, All Mother Tongues are Difficult , Beirut
  • 2016 Galerie Sfeir-Semler, I Want To Be a Party , Hamburg
  • 2017 Kunsthaus Zürich , Action , Zürich
  • 2017 Temporary Museum Bijlmerbajes, Amsterdam
  • 2017 documenta 14 Athens, Kassel
  • 2017 Kunsthalle Hamburg, Art And Alphabet

Film festivals

  • 2014 Short Film Festival Oberhausen, with the video Now eat my script

Works in museums

  • British Museum, London

literature

  • Hendrik Folkerts : Daybook documenta 14. Pestel Verlag, Munich, London, New York 2017.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of December 18, 2014 - Article at Nexis, accessed on October 9, 2017 from the Berliner Zeitung
  2. ↑ Service de base français of June 22, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on October 9, 2017 from Service de base français
  3. ↑ Generalanzeiger of July 21, 2017 - article at Nexis, accessed on October 9, 2017 from the Generalanzeiger
  4. ↑ Appenzeller Zeitung of June 28, 2017 - Article at Nexis, accessed on October 9, 2017 from the Appenzeller Zeitung
  5. ↑ The New York Times, June 24, 2017 - Nexis article, accessed October 9, 2017 from The New York Times
  6. ↑ The New York Times, July 17, 2017 - Nexis article, retrieved from the New York Times on October 9, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Al Solh, Mounira
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese video and installation artist and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Beirut