Marwa Arsanios
Marwa Arsanios nació en Washington DC en 1978
Actualmente vive y trabaja entre Berlín y Beirut
Marwa Arsanios es una artista, realizadora audiovisual e investigadora que reconsidera las políticas de mediados del siglo XX desde una perspectiva contemporánea con un enfoque particular en las relaciones de género, el urbanismo y la industrialización Su aproximación a la investigación es colaborativa, buscando trabajar de manera interdisciplinar.
Ha sido objeto de exposiciones individuales en el Beirut Art Center (2017), Museo Hammer, Los Ángeles (2016), Witte de With, Rotterdam (2016), Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisboa (2015) y Art in General, Nueva York (2015).
Su trabajo también ha sido mostrado en numerosas exhibiciones colectivas como la Trienal de Arquitectura de Sharjah (2019), SF Moma, San Francisco (2019), la 14a Bienal de Sharjah (2019), la Bienal de Varsovia (2019), Nottingham Contemporary, UK (2017), Maxxi Museum, Roma (2017), Museo Sursock, Beirut (2016), Museo Ludwig, Colonia, Alemania (2016), la Bienal de Tesalónica (2015); Home Works Forum, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut (2010, 2013, 2015), New Museum, Nueva York (2014), la 55a Bienal de Venecia (2013), M HKA, Amberes, Bélgica (2013), In Other Words, nGbK, Berlín (2012) y la 12a Bienal de Estambul (2011), entre otras.
Sus obras en video se han proyectado en el FID Marseille, Francia (2019), tiff Toronto (2019), Centre Pompidou, París (2011, 2017), el Festival Internacional de Cine de Berlín (2010, 2015) y e-flux storefront, Nueva York (2009).
Fue galardonada con el Prix Georges de Beauregard International, FID Marseille (2019), Special Prize of the Pinchuk Future Generation Art Prize (2012) y fue nominada para el Paulo Cunha e Silva Art Prize (2017) y para el Han Nefkens Foundation Award (2014).
También fue miembro de la Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Alemania (2014) y del Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Arts and Space (2010). Es co-fundadora del proyecto de investigación 98weeks.
Sus obras forman parte de la colección permanente del Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; SF MoMA, San Francisco; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius; Kadist, Paris; CNAP, Paris; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.
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 ? Part III - Micro Resistencias, 2020 - HD Video - Video Still
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 II, 2019 - 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
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, MAXXI, Roma, 2017 © Luis do Rosario
Models of landfills, land extensions and garbage mountains, 2016 - Exhibition View, mor charpentier, Paris, 2018
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
98 Thesis for translation, Part II- Learning from Kanda, 2019 - Interactive artist book
Reading room, 2016 - Exhibition View, Sursock Museum, Beirut