Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios nació en Washington DC en 1978
Actualmente vive y trabaja entre Berlín y Beirut
Marwa Arsanios es una artista, cineasta e investigadora cuyo trabajo puede adoptar la forma de instalación, performance e imagen en movimiento. Reconsidera el desarrollo político de la segunda mitad del siglo XX desde una perspectiva contemporánea, centrándose en las relaciones de género, el colectivismo, el urbanismo y la industrialización. Su labor de investigación abarca muchas disciplinas y se despliega en numerosos proyectos de colaboración.
Múltiples exposiciones individuales han sido dedicadas a su trabajo: Heidelberger Kunstverein, Alemania (2023); Mosaïc Rooms, Londres (2022); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (2021); Skuc Gallery, Ljubljana (2018); Beirut Art Center (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Ángeles (2016); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016); Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisboa (2015); y Art in General, Nueva York (2015).
Su obra también se ha presentado en numerosas exposiciones colectivas, entre ellas: Documenta 15, Kassel (2022); 5ta Bienal Mardin (2022); 3ª Bienal de Autostrada, Pristina (2021); 11ª Bienal de Berlín (2020); The Renaissance, Chicago (2020); 2ª Bienal de Lahore (2020); Kunsthalle Wien, Viena (2019); 1ª Trienal de Arquitectura de Sharjah (2019); SF Moma, San Francisco (2019); 1ª Bienal de Varsovia (2019); 14ª Bienal de Sharjah (2019); Nottingham Contemporary (2017); Museo Maxxi, Roma (2017); Museo Sursock, Beirut (2016); Museo Ludwig, Colonia (2016); Bienal de Salónica (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015); New Museum, Nueva York (2014); 55ª Bienal de Venecia (2013); M HKA, Amberes (2013), In Other Words, nGbK, Berlín (2012); o la 12ª Bienal de Estambul (2011).
Sus películas se han proyectado en Cinéma du Réel, París (2021); Festival de Cine de Rotterdam (2021); EMAF, Osnabrück (2021); Film Fest, Hamburgo (2020); State of Concept, Atenas (2020); FID Marsella (2019); tiff, Toronto (2019); RIDM, Montreal (2019); Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (2019); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017); Centre Georges Pompidou, París (2011, 2017); Berlin International Film Festival (2010, 2015); y e-flux storefront, Nueva York (2009).
Ha recibido el Premio Internacional Georges de Beauregard en el FID de Marsella (2019), el Premio Especial del Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012), y ha sido nominada al Premio de Arte Paulo Cunha e Silva (2017) y al Premio de la Fundación Han Nefkens (2014). Recibió la beca Akademie Schloss Solitude de Stuttgart en 2014 y la Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space en 2010. Es cofundadora del 98weeks Research Project.
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV: Reverse Shot, 2022 - Exhibition view, Documenta 15, Kassel, Germany 2022
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV: Reverse Shot, 2022 - HD Video - Video Still
Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part IV: Reverse Shot, 2022 - Exhibition view, Talbolt Rice Gallery, Edinbourgh, 2023
Marwa Arsanios Reverse shot - Exhibition view, Mosaic Rooms, London, 2022
Marwa Arsanios Reverse shot - Exhibition view, Mosaic Rooms, London, 2022
Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1, 2017 - Exhibition view, Kunsthalle Munster, 2022 ©LWL:Hanna Neander
Who is afraid of ideology? Part III - Micro Resistencias, 2020 - Exhibition view, La Loge Brussels, 2021
Who is Afraid of Ideology ? Part III - Micro Resistencias, 2020 - Installation View, 11th Berlin Biennial, KW Institute for Contemporary Art ©photo : Silke Briel
Who is Afraid of Ideology ? 2017-2019 - Exhibition View, SF MOMA, 2019 ©Joanna Arnold
Who is Afraid of Ideology ? Part I, 2019 - HD Video - Video Still
Who is Afraid of Ideology ? Part II, 2019 - Exhibition view, 14th Sharjah Biennial, 2019
Who is Afraid of Ideology ? Part IV, 2022 - HD Video - Video Still
Untitled [Tapestry], 2019 - Exhibition View, SF MoMA, 2019 ©Joanna Arnold
Who is Afraid of Ideology ?, 2017-2019 & Untitled [Tapestry], 2020 - Exhibition View, mor charpentier, Paris, 2020
Exhibition view, Marwa Arsanios: A Letter Inside A Letter, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2021
Matter of Alliances - Exhibition view, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, 2023
Matter of Alliances - Exhibition view, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, 2023
Falling is not collapsing, Falling is extending, 2016-2018 - Exhibition View, Beirut Art Center, 2017
Falling is not collapsing, Falling is extending, 2016 - Exhibition View, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016
Falling is not collapsing, Falling is extending, 2016 - Digital Vidéo
Resilient Weeds, 2016 - Exhibition View, MAXXI, Roma, 2017 © Luis do Rosario
Resilient Weeds, 2016 - Exhibition view, Garage Rotterdam 2021
Models of landfills, land extensions and garbage mountains, 2016 - Plaster, micro cement, abs plastic
After Doxiadis, a proposal for a new social housing project, 2013 - Exhibition View, Beirut Art Center, 2014
After Doxiadis, A proposal for a new social housing project, 2013 - Installation with concrete models of housing, printed documents
After Doxiadis, A proposal for a new social housing project, 2013 - Details of the printed documents from Doxiadis' 1958 plan
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Exhibition View, Istanbul Biennial, 2011 © Mahmut Ceylan
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Detail - Photograph
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Detail of the installation - Exhibition View, Halle 14, Liepzig, 2016
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Exhibition View, Istanbul Biennial, 2011 © Mahmut Ceylan
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Detail - Photograph
All About Acapulco, 2010-2011 - Exhibition View, Istanbul Biennial, 2011 © Mahmut Ceylan
Carlton Hotel Project, 2008 - Installation with an architectural model and three pieces of clothes made of curtain fabric - Exhibition View 12th Gwangju Biennale, 2018
Carlton Hotel Project, 2008 - Detail of the architectural model
Carlton Hotel Project, 2008 - Detail of the architectural model
I've Heard Storie, 2008 - Digital video animation
Al Hilal Project : Olga’s Notes, All those Restless Bodies 2014 - Exhibition View, Art in General, New York, 2015
Al Hilal Project : Olga’s Notes, All those Restless Bodies 2014 - Digital Video
Al Hilal Project : Olga’s Notes, The Library, 2013 – Exhibition View, Belvedere Vienna, 2014
Al Hilal Project : Have You Ever Killed a Bear or Becoming Jamila, 2014 - Digital video - Exhibition View, The Reconnaissance Society, Chicago, 2020
Al Hilal Project : Words as silence, language as rhymes, 2012-2013 – View of the Performance, 54th Venice Biennial 2013
Al Hilal Project : Learning to dance, 2015 - View of the Performance, Palais de la Découverte, 2019 ©Marc Domage
A Platform for Reading Feminist Texts, 2015 - View of the Performance, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany, 2015
Karl and Olga, A Brief Encounter, 2012 - View of the Performance, with the participation of Lawrence Abu Hamdan
98 Thesis for translation, Part II- Learning from Kanda, 2019 - Interactive artist book
98 Thesis for translation, Part II- Learning from Kanda, 2019 - Interactive artist book