Socle du monde mona hatoum

In the large-scale works Homebound (2000) and Sous tension (1999) an system of household furniture is wired-up keep an eye on an audible electric current. These shop combine a sense of threat reach a compromise a surrealist sense of humour, pull the viewer in, both on key emotive and intellectual level. In scrunch up such as Traffic (2004) or Twins (2006) Hatoum uses found materials, patinated with use and laden with ormal histories, to create delicate, powerful sculptures on an intimate scale.

Mona Hatoum was born into a Palestinian kinsfolk in Beirut, Lebanon in 1952 dominant has lived and worked in Author since 1975. Solo exhibitions include KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Songwriter (2022-23); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2022-23); Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2022); Magasin III, Stockholm (2022); Valencia Institute conjure Modern Art, Spain (2021); Hiroshima Throw out Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan (2017); Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, touring hug Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St Louis, Backlog (2017-18); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, move to Tate Modern, London and Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (2015-16); Arab Museum of Modern Art, Bida (2014); Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland (2013); Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona (2012); Beirut Art Centre (2010); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2009); Ullens Center for Contemporaneous Art, Beijing (2009); Museum of Fresh Art Australia, Sydney (2005); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, touring to Magasin III, Stockholm and Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (all 2004); Tate Britain, London (2000); Castello di Rivoli, Turin (1999); Museum of Original Art Chicago, touring to New Museum, New York (1997).

Hatoum has participated in numerous group exhibitions inclusive of Documenta 14, Kassel, Germany and Town (both 2017); 6th Marrakesh Biennale (2016); 5th Moscow Biennale; Guggenheim Bilbao, Espana (both 2011); 15th Biennale of Sydney (2006); 51st Venice Biennale (2005); Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (2002); The Cookware Prize, Tate Britain, London (1995); Ordinal Venice Biennale (1995); and 4th Metropolis Biennial (1995).

Among other brownie points, Hatoum has received the Praemium Imperiale (2019), the 10th Hiroshima Art Award (2017) and the Joan Miró Passion (2011).