Rabih Mroué

"Grandfather, Father, Son", 2011, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg

  
 
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1967 born in Beirut, Lebanon
   
  Rabih Mroué is an actor, director, playwright and a TDR Contributing Editor. In 1990 he began putting on his own plays, performances, and videos. Continuously searching for new and contemporary relations among all the different elements and languages of the theatre art forms, Mroué questions the definitions of theatre and the relationship between space and form of the performance and, consequently, questions how the performer relates with the audience. His works deal with the issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon. He draws much-needed attention to the broader political and economic contexts by means of a semi-documentary theatre….
   
   
Exhibitions/Performances
   
2012 Demonstrationen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 "Victims and Martyrs", Göteborg Konsthall
Photo Romance, Performance with Lina Saneh, Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
Das Volk fordert, Kunstverein Stuttgart
"I, the Undersigned", Lunds Konsthall, Sweden
“My Leap into the void”, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Three evenings with Rabih Mroué and friends, Globe, Erdgeschoss der Deutsche Bank-Türme, Frankfurt
2010 “I, The Undersigned”, BAK, Utrecht
2009 “The Inhabitants of images” a lecture performance co-produced by Bidoun Magazine, TQW in Vienna, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
2008 “Noiseless” a short animation produced by CINE-POEM
“Theater with dirty feet”, lecture-performance for HAU 2, Hebbel Theater, Berlin
2007 “How Nancy wished that everything was an April Fool’s Joke” with Fadi Toufiq
2006 “ Make Me Stop Smoking”, Oberhausen film festival
“Look at the Light Moving Between the Buildings”, Siemens Art Program, Munich
“Leap into the Void”, an installation work, Gallery Sfeir-Selmer, Beirut
2004

“Life is Short But the Day is Too Long”, Les Subsistances, Lyon
“Who’s Afraid of Representation”, Hebbel theater, Berlin
2003 “Looking for a Missing Employee”, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut
“Bir-Rooh Bid-Dam”, short film
"Limp Bodies", Tannzquartier Wien, Denkmal project
2002 “Biokhraphia” with Lina Saneh, Ashkal Alwan production
2001 “Face A / Face B”, Short Film
2000 “Red Dead Zone” with Feyrouz Serhal, Ashkal Alwan production
“Three Posters”, with Elias Khoury, Festival Ayloul production
1998 “Come in Sir we are Waiting for you Outside” with Tony Chakar
1997 “Extension 19”, Festival Ayloul production
1995 “La Prison de Sable”
   
Awards
   
2011 Prince Claus Award, Netherlands
Bansemer & Nyssen Dramatiker Preis (togehter with Lina Saneh)
2010

Spalding Grey Award, New York
Artist Grant for Theatre/Performance Arts from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, New York