Mounira Al Solh

Born in 1978 in Beirut, Lebanon. Lives and works between Beirut and Amsterdam. Mounira studied painting at the Lebanese University, Beirut from 1997 to 2001, and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam from 2003 to 2006. She was also Research Resident at the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2007 and 2008. She is a visual artist embracing inter alia video and video installations, painting and drawing, embroidery, and performative gestures. Irony and self-reflectivity are central strategies for her work, which explores feminist issues, tracks patterns of micro-history, is socially engaged, and can be political and escapist all at once. In 2008, Al Solh started a NOA Magazine, a performative gesture co-edited with collaborators such as Fadi El Tofeili and Mona Abu Rayyan, and Jacques Aswad (NOA III).

She has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute Chicago (2018) ; ALT, Istanbul (2016) ; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2014) ; Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (2013) ; Art in General, New York (2012) ; and Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam (2011). As well as group exhibitions at Carré d’Art Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes (2018) ; documenta 14,
Athens & Kassel (2017) ; 56th Venice Biennial (2015) ; New Museum, New York (2014) ; Homeworks, Beirut (2013) ; House of Art, Munich (2010) ; and the 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009).