Rabih Mroué
Rabih Mroué (Beirut/1967) lives and works in Berlin.
Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist and a contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR), New York. He has had solo exhibitions at MoMA, New York (2023-2015); Kunsthal Extra City, Antwerp (2022); KW Institute of Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); Kunsthalle Mainz (2016); Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2015); SALT, Istanbul (2014); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2013); Documenta, Kassel (2012); Kunstverein Stuttgart (2011); and BAK, Utrecht (2010).
He has Participated in major group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2018); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); MACBA, Barcelona (2015); Performa 09, New York (2009); 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); and Tate Modern, London (2007).
His works are in the collections of the MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, SFMOMA San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, CA2M Madrid, MACBA Barcelona, and the Van Abbe Museum Rotterdam, among others. Mroué is a co-founder of the Beirut Art Center and a long time collaborator with Ashkal Alwan, who have produced many of his performances. He is currently an associate director of Kammerspiele Munich.
Practicing Acceptance #11, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Practicing Acceptance #17, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Practicing Acceptance #18, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Practicing Acceptance #22, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Practicing Acceptance #23, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Practicing Acceptance #9, 2024
mixed media on paper
36 × 47 cm
Too close but yet inaccessible, 2022
installation with video 6‘51‘‘ loop and 23 drawings 23,5 x 32,5 cm each
The Other, the Unknown Other and Other Stories, 2021
16:9 HD projection, endless loop
5‘40‘‘
Again, We’re Defeated , 2018
112 A4 prints, 16:9 HD projection, endless loop
As If Seen By a Bird Standing On a Cow, 2018
4x3 monitor, endless loop, no sound
The Crocodile Who Ate the Sun, 2015
Series of 12 photographs
18,8 × 28 cm
Blow Ups, 2012
Series of 7 inkjet print
130 × 90 cm
Pixelated Revolution, 2012
Non-academic lecture
Pixelated Revoution, 2012
Installation at Documenta 13, Kassel
Leap year‘s diary, 2006-2016
Series of 137 collage on paper
23 × 16,5 cm
Old House, 2006
video, color, sound
1‘32‘‘