Outside the Image Inside Us
March 30–April 3, 2016
In a long-standing collaboration, in works that move between documentary, video art and performance, the internationally-recognized Lebanese artist couple Rabih Mroué and Lina Majdalanie has developed a quite specific language. By blurring the borders between the real and the fictional, their performances, “non-academic lectures” and installations constantly circle around current political events and questions of representation.
With the retrospective Outside the Image Inside Us, HAU Hebbel am Ufer will presents a selection of their previous works: from the beginnings, to Mroué’s collaborations with Hito Steyerl, to the present day. Alongside the moving performance Riding on a Cloud (2013), their most recent work Ode to Joy (2015) will be shown in Berlin for the first time.
Programme:
March 30–31 / HAU2 / Rabih Mroué, Ode to Joy (2015)
March 30 / HAU3 / Rabih Mroué, Looking for a Missing Employee (2003)
March 31 / HAU1 / Hito Steyerl & Rabih Mroué, Probable Title: Zero Probability (2012)
April 1 / HAU3 / Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué, Biokhraphia (2002)
April 1 and 3 / HAU1 / Rabih Mroué, Riding on a Cloud (2013)
April 2 / HAU1 / Rabih Mroué, Make Me Stop Smoking—Presentation of Ideas Under Study (2006)
April 2 / HAU2 / Rabih Mroué, Who’s Afraid of Representation (2005)
April 3 / HAU2 / Lina Majdalanie & Rabih Mroué, 33 RPM and a Few Seconds (2012)
HAU1, Stresemannstr. 29, 10963 Berlin
HAU2, Hallesches Ufer 32, 10963 Berlin
HAU3, Tempelhofer Ufer 10, 10963 Berlin
Rabih Mroué lives in Berlin and is an actor, director, writer and editor of the Lebanese journals Kalamon and The Drama Review. He is co-founder and board member of the Beirut Art Center Association (BAC). Employing fiction, real life stories and analysis as tools for engaging with his immediate reality, Mroué explores the responsibilities of the artist in communicating with an audience in given political and cultural contexts. He often uses everyday ordinary materials in his work: posters, photographs, videos or newspaper clippings serve as his starting point.
Lina Majdalanie (née Lina Saneh), born in Beirut, lives in Berlin. The different areas of her activity are united in her artistic work—for instance she has written, directed, and acted in a variety of plays. From 2008 to 2013, she taught at the Haute Ecole d’Art et de Design in Geneva.
