Rabih Mroué, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 2006. Courtesy the artist
Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué
Under the Carpet
Rabih Mroué (b. 1967, LB) is the 2020 recipient of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research. Mroué’s acclaimed body of work that span theatre, visual arts, and literature. Working at the intersection of personal and political history, media criticism, and concepts of authorship, his oeuvre is an interrogation of the ways we see and speak. Under the Carpet features eight newly commissioned pieces that are set within a constellation of works that spans 20 years.
The Award for Artistic Research has grown out of the Schering Stiftung Art Award, which was awarded biannually to international artists between 2005 and 2018. In 2019, the award was redesigned together with the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. The 2020 edition of the Award for Artistic Research is the sixth time that Schering Stiftung has collaborated with KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Curator: Nadim Samman
Assistant curator: Sofie Krogh Christensen
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Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, Again We Are Defeated, 2018, Mixed Media (Detail). Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler und die Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroue, Images mon amour, 2021, Digitalfilm. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroue, As If Seen By a Bird Standing On a Cow, 2018, Video (links), Images mon amour, 2021, Digitalfilm (rechts). Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, Footnotes of an Unwritten Text About War, Body and Theatre, 2014–2016, Video (links), The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, Mixed Media (rechts). Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler und die Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, I Miss the Old Days (Detail), 2012, Mixed Media. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroue, Diary of a Leap Year (Detail), 2006–2016, Collage auf Papier. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler und die Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, Mixed Media. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler und die Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, The Other, the Unknown Other and Other Stories, 2021, Digitalfilm. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy der Künstler; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Foto: Frank Sperling -
Rabih Mroué, The Fall of a Hair, Part 4: “Eye” vs “Eye”, 2012, Mixed Media. Installationsansicht der Ausstellung Preis für künstlerische Forschung der Schering Stiftung 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet, in den KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy die Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg/Beirut; Foto: Frank Sperling
Curator’s Introduction with Nadim Samman. Camera and editing: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué (born 1967 in Beirut) lives and works in Berlin. Mroué is an actor, director, playwright, visual artist, and a contributing editor for The Drama Review (TDR), New York.
He has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Mainz (2016); MoMA New York (2015); Kunsthalle Mulhouse (2015); SALT, Istanbul (2014); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2013); Documenta, Kassel (2012); Kunstverein Stuttgart (2011); and BAK, Utrecht (2010). He has participated in major group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston (2018); Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); MACBA, Barcelona (2015); Performa 09, New York (2009); 11th International Istanbul Biennial (2009); Queens Museum of Art, New York (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); and Tate Modern, London (2007).
His works are in the collections of the MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, SFMOMA San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, CA2M Madrid, MACBA Barcelona, and the Van Abbe Museum Rotterdam, among others. Mroué is a co-founder of the Beirut Art Center and a long time collaborator with Ashkal Alwan, who have produced many of his performances.
Rabih Mroué, Sand In The Eyes, 2017. Photo: Joachim Dette.
Rabih Mroué, Sand In The Eyes, 2017. Photo: Joachim Dette.
The exhibition is part of the Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020 and realised with financial support from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.