Rabih Mroué

Born in  Beirut, Rabih Mroué is an artist, actor and director whose work stands  at the intersection of the visual arts, performance and theatre. Using  found documents, video sequences, photographs and objects, Rabih Mroué  plays with the frontiets between reality and fiction to question the  authority of archives. He now lives in Berlin.

A joint founder and board member of the  Beirut Art Center (BAC), Rabih Mroué is also a member of the editorial  team for The Drama Review (New-York), and is associated stage directo  rat the Münchner Kammerspiele. From 2012 to 2015 he was associate  researcher and the “Interweaving Performance Cultures” international  research centre in Berlin. Recent works include: Ode to Joy (2015), Riding on a Cloud (2013) and 33 RPM and a Few Seconds  (2012) with Lina Majdalanie. His work was exhibited at the MOMA in 2015  and dOCUMENTA 13. In spring 2016,  the HAU Hebbel am Ufer theatre in  Berlin presented Outside the Image Inside Us, a retrospective selection of his major pieces (in collaboration with Lina Majdalanie).

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