Mounira Al Solh
Mounira Al Solh is Professor of Performance, Installation and Media at the Kunsthochschüle Kassel. She is a Lebanese artist, working between Lebanon and the Netherlands, whose practice spans installation, painting, sculpture, video, drawing, text, embroidery, and performative gestures. Through micro-history and mythological storytelling, her work engages with equality and bears witness to the impact of conflict and displacement. Al Solh’s work is sociopolitically engaged while being poetically escapist at the same time.
Since 2008, Al Solh also taught as a visiting tutor or guest lecturer at American University of Beirut, Université Saint Joseph (Beirut), Royal Academy of Fine Arts (The Hague), St Joost (Den Bosch), Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem), BEAR ARTez (Arnhem), Rietveld academie (Amsterdam) and at postgraduate schools De Ateliers (Amsterdam) and the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam).
In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic), an initiative co-edited with various collaborators. She co-founded with curator Angela Serino NOA Language School in Amsterdam (2013), which functioned as a temporary research platform for investigations into the relationships between language and immigration.
Al Solh has had solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2026); Bonnefanten, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2025); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2025); Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany (2022); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2022); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2020); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2018); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2018); and The Art Institute Chicago (2018). She has also participated in group exhibitions including at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2026); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2026); Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2025); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2024); Sharjah Biennial (2023); Busan Biennale (2022); Musée National de Pablo Picasso–La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France (2020); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020); Documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); Venice Biennale (2015); New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009); and 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009), among others.
In 2024, Al Solh represented Lebanon at the 60th Venice Biennale.
Since 2008, Al Solh also taught as a visiting tutor or guest lecturer at American University of Beirut, Université Saint Joseph (Beirut), Royal Academy of Fine Arts (The Hague), St Joost (Den Bosch), Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem), BEAR ARTez (Arnhem), Rietveld academie (Amsterdam) and at postgraduate schools De Ateliers (Amsterdam) and the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam).
In 2008, Al Solh started NOA Magazine (Not Only Arabic), an initiative co-edited with various collaborators. She co-founded with curator Angela Serino NOA Language School in Amsterdam (2013), which functioned as a temporary research platform for investigations into the relationships between language and immigration.
Al Solh has had solo exhibitions at Arnolfini, Bristol, UK (2026); Bonnefanten, Maastricht, The Netherlands (2025); Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal (2025); Museumsquartier Osnabrück, Germany (2022); BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK (2022); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2020); Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2018); Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2018); and The Art Institute Chicago (2018). She has also participated in group exhibitions including at Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2026); Sydney Biennial, Australia (2026); Centre Pompidou Metz, France (2025); Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2024); Sharjah Biennial (2023); Busan Biennale (2022); Musée National de Pablo Picasso–La Guerre et la Paix, Vallauris, France (2020); Palais De Tokyo, Paris (2020); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2020); Documenta 14, Kassel and Athens (2017); Venice Biennale (2015); New Museum Triennial, New York (2012); Sharjah Biennial 9 (2009); and 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009), among others.
In 2024, Al Solh represented Lebanon at the 60th Venice Biennale.