Rabih Mroué

Rabih Mroué (, born 1967) is a Lebanese stage and film actor, playwright, and visual artist. Rooted in theater, his work includes videos and installation art; the latter sometimes incorporates photography, text and sculpture. He graduated in theater in 1989 from Lebanese University, Mroué has written of his own work, "My works deal with issues that have been swept under the table in the current political climate of Lebanon,"

Mroué's 2007 piece about the Lebanese Civil War, How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool's Joke, toured internationally. Banned domestically by the Lebanese Interior Ministry, In 2012, a series of photographs made with mobile phones at Homs, Syria showed persons killed during the fights of 2011/2012. Copies of the photographs were shown at dOCUMENTA (13) at Kassel, Germany with the title Pixelated Revolution.

Mroué is a board member of the Beirut Art Center.

Mroué has had solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Mainz (2016); MoMA, New York (2015); Museum of Fine Arts, Mulhouse (2015); SALT, Istanbul (2014); Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid (2013) 2012); Documenta, Kassel (2012); Art Association Stuttgart (2011); and BAK, Utrecht (2010).

Participated in major group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2018); House of World Cultures, Berlin (2017); Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); MACBA, Barcelona (2015); Performa 09, New York (2009); XI Istanbul International Biennale (2009); Queen's Museum, New York (2009); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2008); and Tate Modern, London (2007).

His work is held in the collections of the MoMA in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the CA2M in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona and the Van Arbey Museum in Rotterdam, among others. Mroué is the co-founder of Beirut Arts Centre and a long-term partner of Ashkal Alwan, who has produced many of his performance pieces. He is currently an associate director of Kammerspiele Munich.

Awards 2010 Spalding Gray Award (awarded by PS 122, The Andy Warhol Museum, On the Boards, and the Walker Art Center)., Yesterday's Man (2007), in collaboration with Tony Chakar and Tiago Rodrigues, premiered at La Mercè, Girona, Spain. Photo-Romance (2009). Collaboration with Lina Saneh. Premiered at Festival d'Avignon, Avignon.

Installations With Soul, with Blood (2003). Memory Box (2021)