Rabih Mroué, Self-Portrait as a Fountain, 2006. Courtesy the artist
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
Exhibition Leaflet (PDF)
Curator’s Introduction with Nadim Samman
Camera and editing: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Again We Are Defeated, 2018, Mixed Media (detail). Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Images mon amour, 2021, digital film. Installation view of the exhibition Schering
Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, As If Seen By a Bird Standing On a Cow, 2018, video (left), Images mon amour,
2021, digital film (right). Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic
Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Footnotes of an Unwritten Text About War, Body and Theatre, 2014–2016, video
(left), The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, mixed media (right). Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, I Miss the Old Days (detail), 2012, mixed media. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Diary of a Leap Year (detail), 2006–2016, collage on paper. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, mixed media. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Other, the Unknown Other and Other Stories, 2021, digital film. Installation
view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under
the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Fall of a Hair, Part 4: “Eye” vs “Eye”, 2012, mixed media. Installation view of
the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the
Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Again We Are Defeated, 2018, Mixed Media (detail). Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Images mon amour, 2021, digital film. Installation view of the exhibition Schering
Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for
Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, As If Seen By a Bird Standing On a Cow, 2018, video (left), Images mon amour,
2021, digital film (right). Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic
Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Footnotes of an Unwritten Text About War, Body and Theatre, 2014–2016, video
(left), The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, mixed media (right). Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, I Miss the Old Days (detail), 2012, mixed media. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, Diary of a Leap Year (detail), 2006–2016, collage on paper. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Crocodile Who Ate The Sun, 1982, 2015, mixed media. Installation view of the
exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the Carpet at
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Other, the Unknown Other and Other Stories, 2021, digital film. Installation
view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under
the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy the artist; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Installation view of the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih
Mroué: Under the Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022; Photo: Frank
Sperling
Rabih Mroué, The Fall of a Hair, Part 4: “Eye” vs “Eye”, 2012, mixed media. Installation view of
the exhibition Schering Stiftung Award for Artistic Research 2020: Rabih Mroué: Under the
Carpet at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 2022. Courtesy Galerie Sfeir-Semler,
Hamburg/Beirut; Photo: Frank Sperling
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.
