Mounira Al Solh


Mounira Al Solh, also known as Mounira al-Solh is a Lebanese-Dutch visual artist.
WWW mouniraalsolh.com

Life and education

Mounira Al Solh was born to Lebanese parents. 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 and Fine Arts at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and was a resident at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam.
She lives and works in Beirut and Amsterdam.

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. She co-founded NOA Language School in Amsterdam in 2013.
She had solo exhibitions at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow. She participated in documenta 14 and the 56th Venice Biennale.
In 2024, Mounira al Solh was selected to represent Lebanon in the 60th Venice Biennale.

Awards

She is the winner of the ABN AMRO Art Award, is one of seven shortlisted artists for the Artes Mundi 10 prize ; received the Uriôt Prize from the Rijksakademie, Amsterdam and the Black Magic Woman Award, Amsterdam. She was also shortlisted for the Abraaj Group Art Prize., Dubai and nominated for the Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs, Amsterdam. Her video Rawane’s Song won the jury prize at Videobrasil.

Exhibitions