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Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué Rabih Mroué (*1967) lives and works in Berlin. He studied theatre at the Lebanese University in Beirut.

His artistic work encompasses theatre, visual arts and literature. Working at the intersection between private and political history, media criticism and concepts of authorship, his performative compositions question our tendencies of seeing and speaking.

Mroué is the editor of The Drama Review and co-founder of the Beirut Art Center. He was a fellow of the International Research Center “Interweaving Performance Cultures” at the Free University of Berlin and regularly directs and performs at the Münchner Kammerspiele, Kampnagel Hamburg and the Hebbel Theater in Berlin. His work has also been shown in numerous international exhibitions, including at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Madrid, Kunstverein Stuttgart, BAK Utrecht, Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona, documenta 13, Performa New York, Centre Pompidou and Tate Modern. In 2020, Rabih Mroué received the Ernst Schering Foundation Prize for Artistic Research – the awards collaborator KW Institute for Contemporary Art presented his solo exhibition Under the Carpet in 2022.