Mounira Al Solh | |
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Born | 1978 ![]() |
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Occupation | Painter, drawer, video artist, video installation artist, performance artist ![]() |
Website | www![]() |
Mounira Al Solh, also known as Mounira al-Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.
Mounira Al Solh was born to Lebanese parents. [1] 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). [2]
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. [4] She treats these topics in a fictional, not documentary way. [5]
In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic). [6] She co-founded NOA Language School in Amsterdam in 2013. [7]
She had solo exhibitions at (among others) BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2022), [4] Art Institute of Chicago (2018), and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013). She participated in documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017) [8] and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015).
In 2024, Mounira al Solh was selected to represent Lebanon in the 60th Venice Biennale.
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, [9] Amsterdam (2009). Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil (2007).
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