Playful and powerful resistance

Her artistic work deals with structural oppression and abuse of power as well as their effects: Mounira Al Solh (*1978 in Beirut) draws on her own experience. As a child, she emigrated to Syria with her family to escape the Lebanese civil war. Her installations, paintings, sculptures, textile and video works nevertheless exude a certain lightness, sometimes humorous and playful, but with a clear message. Al Solh makes an individual statement for resistance that moves between humor and seriousness. In her first solo exhibition in the Netherlands at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, the artist is showing works created especially for the show and her well-known installations, which were previously on display in the Lebanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2024 and at the Artes Mundi Prize in Cardiff in 2023. A land as big as her skin can be seen from June 7, 2025 to January 11, 2026.

Mounia Al Solh is a Lebanese-Dutch artist who lives and works in Beirut and, since the early 2000s, also in Amsterdam. She sees herself as a collector of stories and combines intimate, personal experiences with collective and political ones. Her work continues to be characterized by a broad choice of materials and an affinity for craftsmanship. In 2007, she took part in the Venice Biennale for the first time. At documenta 14 (2017), which took place in Kassel and Athens, she impressed with an installation on war-related migration and inhumane conditions, as well as with a series of drawings in which she portrayed migrants who have since acquired citizenship of a European state.