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The body is the starting point for much of the artist’s commentary on the state of the world. However, it may also be the object. Since early days, Mona Hatoum explored the interiority of the body, often revealing its deepest intimacy. With some humor, while still seeking to elicit contradictory emotions, the artist once again uses the sphere in the work entitled Inside Out (concrete), whose surface pattern is reminiscent of the meanderings of the digestive system.

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ABOUT ARTISTS : Mona Hatoum

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Born in 1952 in Beirut. Lives and works in London. Hatoum went through her art training in schools in London in the mid-1970s. She has worked in a diverse range of media including performance, video, photography, sculpture, installation and works on paper. Her work, which deals with issues of displacement, marginalisation and systems of social and political control, is often realised through the use of unconventional materials such as household objects, glass marbles or even her own hair. In the 1980s, Hatoum explored themes of surveillance and state control through performance and video works that focused intensely on using the body as a site of conflict. Since the early 1990s, her work developed into large installations and sculptures exploring notions of exclusion and restriction of movement through materials and structures that bring up in the viewer opposing emotions of desire and repulsion, fear and fascination. In 2025, Mona Hatoum was awarded the 2025 KU Leuven Doctor Honoris Causa, the Julio González Prize 2020 by the Valencia Institute of Modern Art, as well as the Praemium Imperiale prize for Sculpture in 2019, submitted by Japan Art Association, the most historical cultural foundation in Japan. She was presented with a number of additional prizes during her career, such as the Hiroshima Art Prize by the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2017), and the Joan Miró Prize of the Fundació Joan Miró (2011), among others. Mona Hatoum has shown her work at numerous major institutions such as the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2026); Barbican Center, London (2025); Museo Nivola, Orani 2025); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort (2025); Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin (2022); KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2022); NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (2022); Magasin III and Accelerator, Stockholm (2022); Valencia Institute of Modern Art (IVAM), Valencia (2021); Menil Collection, Houston, (2017); Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires (2015); Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent (2014); Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2014); Arter, Istanbul (2012); Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona (2012); Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2009); Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (2009); Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney (2005); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (2004); Magasin III, Stockholm (2004). Mona Hatoum’s works have joined the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; HE Art Museum, Shunde; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hiroshima Museum of Art; Kunstmuseum, Basel; Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg; LaM, Villeneuve d’Ascq; MAC VAL, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine; Cité nationale de l’histoire de l’immigration, Paris; Sammlung Goetz, Munich; La Caixa, Barcelona; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich; Mathaf, Doha; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah.

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