AFS 2024 Speakers
Rabih Mroué
Artist
Born in Beirut and currently lives now in Berlin, is a theatre director, actor, visual artist and playwright. He is a contributing editor for The Drama Review /TDR (New York) and the quarterly Kalamon (Beirut). He is also a co-founder and was a board member of the Beirut Art Center (BAC).
He was a fellow at The International Research Center: Interweaving Performance Cultures/ FU/Berlin since 2013 -2014. He was a theatre-director at Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich) since 2015 – 2018.
He got different awards including the Foundation for Contemporary Arts for performing arts - New York, The Spalding Gray Award, New York 2010, and the Prince Claus Award - The Netherlands, 2011 among others…
He has performed and exhibited internationally including dOCUMENTA (13) - Kassel, CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo - Madrid, MoMa - New York , Centre Pompidou – Paris, SALT – Istanbul, The City Art Museum of Ljubljana, and others…
His works include: Borborygmus, The Pixelated Revolution, So Little time, Ode to Joy, Riding on a cloud, How Nancy wished that everything was an April Fool’s Joke, Looking for a missing employee, water Between three hands, The Inhabitants of images, Who’s Afraid of Representation, Biokhraphia and others...