MONA HATOUM

In the 1980s, Hatoumexplored themes of surveillance and state control through performanceand video works that focused intensely on using the body as a site ofconflict.

Since the early 1990s, her work developed into largeinstallations and sculptures exploring notions of exclusion andrestriction of movement through materials and structures that bring upin the viewer opposing emotions of desire and repulsion, fear andfascination.

In 2020, Mona Hatoum was awarded the Julio González Prize 2020 by theValencia Institute of Modern Art, as well as the Praemium Imperialeprize for Sculpture in 2019, submitted by Japan Art Association, themost historical cultural foundation in Japan.

She was presented with a number of other prizes during her career, such as the 10^th Hiroshima Art Prize by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2017), Joan Miró Prize of the Fundació Joan Miró (2011), Honorary Doctorate from the University of Southampton (2010), or Roswitha Haftmann Stiftung Prize (2004) among others.

In 2015, her exhibition at the Centre Pompidou Paris travelled to Tate London, then to the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2016).

Mona Hatoum has shown her work at numerous major institutions such asthe Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2025); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2022);KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); NBK - NeuerBerliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2022); Magasin III and Accelerator,Stockholm (2022); Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia(2021); Menil Collection, Houston, (2017) that toured to the PulitzerArts Foundation in St. Louis (2018); Hiroshima City Museum ofContemporary Art (2017); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2015); Pinacotecado Estado, São Paulo (2014); Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (2014); ArabMuseum of Modern Art, Doha (2014); Arter, Istanbul (2012); Fundació JuanMiró, Barcelona (2012); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing(2009); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2009); Museum ofContemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2005); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg(2004); Kunstmuseum, Bonn (2004); Magasin III, Stockholm (2004); Museode Arte Contemporáneo, Oaxaca (2003); Centro de Arte, Salamanca (2002).

Mona Hatoum’s works have joined the collections of the HE Art Museum,Shunde; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hiroshima Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum,Basel; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq; MAC VAL,Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine; Citénationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris; Sammlung Goetz, Munich;La Caixa, Barcelona; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Arken Museum of ModernArt, Copenhagen; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; NationalMuseum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Mathaf,Doha; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.

Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel