Mounira Al Solh
Mounira Al Solh, also known as Mounira al-Solh (born 1978 in Beirut) is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.
Mounira Al Solh
- Born
- 1978 · Beirut.
- Nationality
- Lebanon
- Occupation
- artist · painter · draftsperson · embroiderer
- Education
- Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
- Honours
- ABN AMRO Art Award
- Languages
- Arabic
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Life and education
Life and education
Mounira Al Solh studied at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten. The recorded working language is Arabic. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amsterdam. Work by Mounira Al Solh is recorded in the collections of Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst. Distinctions recorded are ABN AMRO Art Award.
Mounira Al Solh was born to Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. 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). She lives and works in Beirut and Amsterdam.
Work
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. She treats these topics in a fictional, not documentary way. In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic). She co-founded NOA Language School in Amsterdam in 2013. She had solo exhibitions at (among others) BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art (2022), Art Institute of Chicago (2018), and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013). She participated in documenta 14 (Athens and Kassel, 2017) and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). In 2024, Mounira al Solh was selected to represent Lebanon in the 60th Venice Biennale.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 2025: A land as big as her skin, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands • 2024: Lebanese Pavillon, La Biennale Di Venezia 2024 • 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 • 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 • 2018: Artist’s Rooms: Mounira Al Solh, 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 • 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
Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
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1978
Mounira Al Solh born at Beirut.
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, Amsterdam (2009). Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil (2007).
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- 1.Malbert, Roger. Drawing in the Present Tense. Thames & Hudson. 26 April 2023. 978-0-500-77822-7.
- 2.Mounira Al Solh, My specialty was to make a peasants' haircut, but they obliged me work till midnight often, 2015-2017. LACMA Collections.
- 3.Mounira Al Solh. Dutch Art Institute.
- 4.Mounira Al Solh. Sharjah Art Foundation.
- 5.Mounira Al Solh. BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
- 6.Mounira al Solh. Framer Framed.
- 7.NOA Magazine.
- 8.People – Sharjah Art Foundation. www.sharjahart.org.
- 9.Mounira Al Solh. www.documenta14.de.
- 10.Bem, Merel. Nominaties Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs. de Volkskrant. 25 March 2010.
- 11.La Biennale Di Venezia 2024. 31 January 2024.
- 12.Pocket Rhythms 2023. sfeir-semler.com.
- 13.Mounira al Solh | Art Gallery. sfier-semler.com.
- 14.I want to be a party 2016. sfier-semler.com.
- 15.All Mother Tongues are Difficult 2014. sfier-semler.com.
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Mounira Al Solh received ABN AMRO Art Award. Recorded as artist, painter, draftsperson and embroiderer.
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst
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