Mounira Al Solh

Mounira Al Solh works within different media such as painting, drawing, performance, video 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.

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 Art Space 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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