Mounira Al Solh

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Mounira Al Solh
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Occupation Painter, drawer, video artist, video installation artist, performance artist   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Website www.mouniraalsolh.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Mounira Al Solh, also known as Mounira al-Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.

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Life and education

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]

She lives and works in Beirut and Amsterdam. [3]

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. [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.

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, [9] Amsterdam (2009). Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil (2007).

Exhibitions

References

  1. ↑ Malbert, Roger; Gilman, Claire (26 April 2023). Drawing in the Present Tense. Thames & Hudson. ISBN   978-0-500-77822-7.
  2. ↑ "Mounira Al Solh". Dutch Art Institute. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  3. ↑ "Mounira Al Solh". Sharjah Art Foundation. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  4. 1 2 "Mounira Al Solh". BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  5. ↑ "Mounira al Solh". Framer Framed. Archived from the original on 2 December 2022. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "NOA Magazine".
  7. ↑ "People – Sharjah Art Foundation". www.sharjahart.org. Archived from the original on 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  8. ↑ "Mounira Al Solh". www.documenta14.de. Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  9. ↑ Bem, Merel; Dost, Lennard; de Vries, Marina (25 March 2010). "Nominaties Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 December 2022.
  10. ↑ "La Biennale Di Venezia 2024". 31 January 2024. Archived from the original on 28 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "Pocket Rhythms 2023". sfeir-semler.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  12. ↑ "Mounira al Solh | Art Gallery". sfier-semler.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  13. ↑ "I want to be a party 2016". sfier-semler.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  14. ↑ "All Mother Tongues are Difficult 2014". sfier-semler.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
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