Rabih Mroué, born in 1967 in Beirut, lives and works in Berlin. Both a stage and film actor, he is primarily a playwright and visual artist. His work on stage includes video and artistic installations. The latter sometimes consist of photography, text and sculpture. He is a contributing editor for TDR/The Drama Review and co-founder of the Beirut Art Center (BAC).

His 2007 play about the Lebanese civil war, How Nancy Wished That Everything Was an April Fool’s Joke, was banned by the Lebanese Ministry of the Interior and premiered in Tokyo. The ban was eventually lifted. In 2012, some of his shots taken with his cell phone in Homs, Syria, showed people killed during the 2011/2012 combat.

His works are in the collections of the MoMA New York, Centre Pompidou Paris, SFMOMA San Francisco, the Art Institute of Chicago, CA2M Madrid, MACBA Barcelona, and the Van Abbe Museum Rotterdam, among others.

Mroué was associate director of Münchner Kammerspiele (2015–2018).

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Sand in the Eyes
2019 Edition
24.09 – 06.10