Mounira Al Solh Biography

Mounira Al Solh's paintings, drawings, performances, textiles, videos, and installations narrate the histories and experiences of her broad family and community. The personal stories are often closely interwoven with the political: Al Solh's work reflects on themes such as migration, identity, language, trauma and feminism. Many of her projects are rooted in a collaborative and socially engaged practice.

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Mounira Al Solh attempts to visualise the oral histories of individuals by portraying numerous conversations with Middle Eastern and North African migrants on the impact of the conflicts in their region and the displacement due to the social and political climate, war and oppression. For other projects Al Solh invites women from different backgrounds to engage with her practice through manual labour or personal narratives.

Mounira Al Solh, born 1978 in Beirut, lives and works in Lebanon and the Netherlands. . The artist currently has a solo show at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead as well as at the Felix Nussbaum Haus in Osnabrück.

Al Solh had solo exhibitions at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo (2020), the Musée National Pablo Picasso in Vallauris (2020), The Art Institute of Chicago (2018), the Mathaf in Doha (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 was included in group shows at WIELS in Brussels (2020), 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), Tate Modern in London (2011) and the 11th International Istanbul Biennial.

Text courtesy Zeno X Gallery.

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She Woke up the Radio by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting
Mounira Al Solh She Woke up the Radio, 2022 Oil on canvas
86 x 68 cm
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Warrior's Fakes, and My Aunt's Mule by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting, works on paper
Mounira Al Solh Warrior's Fakes, and My Aunt's Mule, 2022 Oil on canvas
206 x 234 cm
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13 April, 13 April, 13 April by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, sculpture, drawing
Mounira Al Solh 13 April, 13 April, 13 April, 2020 Ink, markers and textile on paper
30.4 x 43.2 cm
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13 April, 13 April, 13 April by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, drawing
Mounira Al Solh 13 April, 13 April, 13 April, 2020 Ink, watercolour and pen on paper

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13 April, 13 April, 13 April by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting, works on paper, drawing
Mounira Al Solh 13 April, 13 April, 13 April, 2020 Ink, blood and watercolour on paper
21.4 x 27.4 cm
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Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting
Mounira Al Solh Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water, 2022 Ink, gouache, watercolour, collage, pencil and pen on paper
59.2 x 41.8 cm
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Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting
Mounira Al Solh Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water, 2022 Ink, gouache, watercolour, collage, pencil and pen on paper
59.2 x 41.8 cm
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Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water by Mounira Al Solh contemporary artwork painting
Mounira Al Solh Wanted, Blind, Beloved, in Jail and on the Water, 2022 Ink, gouache, watercolour, collage, pencil and pen on paper
59.2 x 41.8 cm
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