Marwa Arsanios

*1987 / Lebanon

Works

Contacts for the work of Marwa Arsanios

Marwa Arsanios

Beirut
instagram.com/marwaarsanios

Solo exhibitions

Who is Afraid of Ideology?

Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck (AT)
27 Jun 2026 – 4 Oct 2026
The Land Shall Not Be Owned

La tierra no será poseída

ARTIUM. Centro-Museo, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)
7 Nov 2025 – 12 Apr 2026
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 5: Right of Passage

Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (ES)
14 Nov 2025 – 18 Jan 2026
The Land Shall Not Be Owned

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
8 Apr 2025 – 1 Jun 2025
Matter of Alliances

Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE)
18 Feb 2023 – 30 Apr 2023
Reverse Shot

The Mosaic Rooms, London (GB)
12 Oct 2022 – 22 Jan 2023
Who Is Afraid of Ideology?

CAC Center Cincinnati, Cincinnati (US)
17 Sep 2021 – 27 Feb 2022
Hammer Projects: Marwa Arsanios

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
17 Sep 2016 – 8 Jan 2017
WDW25+ Marwa Arsanios - What representations?

Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam (NL)
27 May 2016 – 31 Dec 2016
Notes, Texts, Annotations or How to Read While Walking

Alt Art Space, Istanbul (TR)
13 Jul 2016 – 9 Oct 2016

Group

Utopías arquitectónicas

Mor Charpentier, Paris (FR)
23 Nov 2024 – 16 Jan 2025

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Lara Almarcegui, Alexander Apostol, Kader Attia, Teresa Margolles
EXPANDED WITH

EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival

Castello di Rivoli , Torino (IT)
2 May 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Jan Dibbets, Anna Maria Maiolino, Paola Pivi
Dits et écrits dispersés

Exils, passages et leurs récits

Centre Photographique Marseille, Marseille (FR)
27 Oct 2023 – 25 Nov 2023

with John Akomfrah, Félix Blume, Frédérique Lagny, Randa Maddah, Mehdi Meddaci
Shifted Realities

Galerie Rudolfinum, Praha (CZ)
16 Mar 2023 – 11 Jun 2023

with Ed Atkins, Adéla Babanová, Zach Blas, Paul Maheke, Leslie Thornton
The Accursed Share

Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh (GB)
17 Mar 2023 – 27 May 2023

with Sammy Baloji, Moyra Davey
Qualcosa nell’aria / Something in the air

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino (IT)
17 Mar 2022 – 12 Jun 2022

with Carolina Caycedo, Andreas Gursky, Arthur Jafa, Sandra Mujinga, Rory Pilgrim, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Artur Zmijewski
RADICAL HOPE

Mor Charpentier, Paris (FR)
25 Jan 2020 – 27 Feb 2020

with Rossella Biscotti, Paz Errazuriz, Bouchra Khalili, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Motta, Uriel Orlow
Soft Power

SF Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (US)
26 Oct 2019 – 17 Feb 2020

with Haig Aivazian, Nairy Baghramian, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Nikhil Chopra, Minerva Cuevas, Cevdet Erek, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Hassan Khan, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Cinthia Marcelle, Dave McKenzie, Carlos Motta …
CHOREOGRAPHY OF THE FRAME

Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien (AT)
8 Nov 2018 – 15 Dec 2018

with Gwenneth Boelens, Maia Gusberti, Yasmina Haddad, Herbert Hofer, Gabriela Löffel, Tatiana Lecomte, Claudia Märzendorfer, Uriel Orlow, Petignat und Scholz, Michaela Schwentner, Lina Selander, Sophie Thun
Home Beirut. Sounding the Neighbors

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti, Roma (IT)
15 Nov 2017 – 20 May 2018

with Haig Aivazian, Ziad Antar, Eric Baudelaire, Tony Chakar, Ali Cherri, Fouad Elkoury, Ahmad Ghossein, Mona Hatoum, Hatem Imam, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Lamia Joreige, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group) …
From Ear to Ear to Eye

Sounds and Stories from Across the Arab World

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham (GB)
16 Dec 2017 – 4 Mar 2018

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Haig Aivazian, Basma Alsharif, Ziad Antar, Anka Dabrowska, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Hiwa K, Jumana Manna, Raed Yassin, Shirin Yousefi
Putting Rehearsals to the Test.

In-the-Making: The Post-Dramatic Image

VOX, centre de l'image, Montréal (CA)
1 Sep 2016 – 26 Nov 2016

with Judith Barry, Keren Cytter, Loretta Fahrenholz, Mathias Poledna, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Heimo Zobernig
In anderen Worten. Der Schwarzmarkt der Übersetzungen

mit zeitgenössischen Kulturen handeln

Kunst Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
3 Mar 2012 – 15 Apr 2012

with Adel Abidin, Kader Attia, Julien Audebert, Elena Bellantoni, Braco Dimitrijevic, Mounir Fatmi, Christoph Keller, Daniel Knorr, Takehito Koganezawa, Oliver Laric, Timo Nasseri, Rosangela Renno …
12th International Istanbul Biennial

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul (TR)
17 Sep 2011 – 13 Nov 2011

with Eddie Adams, Claudia Andujar, Edgardo Aragon, Kutluğ Ataman, George Awde, Alessandro Balteo Yazbeck, Taysir Batniji, Letizia Battaglia, Mathew B. Brady, Chris Burden, Tammy Rae Carland, Mat Collishaw …

Events

EXPOSED. Torino Foto Festival

New Landscapes - Turin’s New International Festival of Photography

EXPOSED, Torino (IT)
2 May 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Shahidul Alam, Graeme Arnfield, Mathieu Asselin, Fabio Barile, Botto & Bruno, James Bridle, Robert Capa, Lorenzo Castore, Laura Cinti, Monica de Miranda, Paolo Pellion di Persano, Jan Dibbets …
ARTBO 2023

ARTBO, Feria de Arte de Bogotá, Bogotá (CO)
23 Nov 2023 – 26 Nov 2023

with Rodrigo Echeverri, Eduard Moreno y Andrea Marín, María Teresa Hincapié, Jonier Marín, Julieth Morales, Jesús Eduardo Correa Nache, Uriel Orlow, Jose Alejandro Restrepo
documenta 15 Kassel

documenta, Kassel (DE)
18 Jun 2022 – 25 Sep 2022

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Kiri Dalena, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh, Saodat Ismailova, Pinar Öğrenci, Wakaliga Uganda
VIDEONALE.18

FLUID STATES. SOLID MATTER

Videonale, Bonn (DE)
4 Mar 2021 – 18 Apr 2021

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sadie Benning, Eli Cortinas, Thirza Cuthand, Anouk De Clercq, Kevin Jerome Everson, Dora Garcia, General Idea, Barbara Hammer, Kristin Lucas, Adrian Paci, Sondra Perry …
11. Berlin Biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, daadgalerie, Gropius Bau

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
5 Sep 2020 – 1 Nov 2020

with Noor Abuarafeh, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Sara Sejin Chang (Sara van der Heide), Kiri Dalena, Virginia de Medeiros, Eiko Grimberg, Francisco Huichaqueo, Carlos Motta, Aykan Safoğlu, Bartolina Xixa, Osías Yanov, Katarina Zdjelar
Sharjah Biennial 14

Leaving the Echo Chamber

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sophia Al-Maria, Leo Asemota, Ursula Biemann, Hannah Black, Mohamed Bourouissa, Candice Breitz, Adriana Bustos, Ian Cheng, Christopher Cozier, Shezad Dawood, Rohini Devasher …
12th Gwangju Biennale

Imagined Borders

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
7 Sep 2018 – 11 Nov 2018

with Francis Alys, Halil Altindere, Leonor Antunes, Alexander Apostol, Kader Attia, Lara Baladi, Yto Barrada, Louidgi Beltrame, Zach Blas, Alex Buldakov, Tiffany Chung, Paolo Cirio …
FIAC 2018 - Cinéphémère

FIAC Paris, Paris (FR)
18 Oct 2018 – 21 Oct 2018

with Ahmet Oeguet, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, John Akomfrah, Basma Alsharif, Maria Thereza Alves, Michel Auder, Sammy Baloji, Louidgi Beltrame, Will Benedict, Meriem Bennani, ZHENG Bo, Mohamed Bourouissa …
Videoex Festival 2016

Internationales Experimentalfilm & Video Festival

Videoex, Zürich (CH)
24 May 2016 – 29 May 2016

with Chantal Akerman, Laurie Anderson, Kenneth Anger, Ziad Antar, Ursula Biemann, Ali Cherri, Mona Hatoum, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Lamia Joreige, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Christoph Schlingensief, Akram Zaatari
Matter of Alliances

Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg (DE)