Mirna Bamieh
Mirna Bamieh
Sour Things Project. 2024

Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and memory production by unpacking the social concerns and limitations of Palestinian communities amid contemporary political dilemmas. Since 2019 the artist has also been reflecting on the process of fermentation through text, ceramics and video works incorporated into site-specific interactive installations. With a degree in culinary arts, she melds food and storytelling to develop socially engaged work through Palestine Hosting Society (a live art project she founded in 2018). Staging dinner performances and various interventions that draw from food practices as well as the passage of recipes through generations, the project aims to revitalize traditional Palestinian food cultures on the verge of disappearing.

Works

Sour Things Project. 2024

Ceramics
45x30x15cm

Sour Cords Series. 2024

Glazed ceramics

Sour Things Project. 2024

Yellow LED Neon. Edition of 5
33 x 102 cm (Arabic) 20 x 141 cm (English)

Sour Jars Series. 2024

Glazed ceramics and glass
20 x 20 x 30 cm

Sour Things Project. 2024

Ceramics
20x40x15cm

Sour Jars. 2023

Watercolor ink, brine on artisanal cotton paper
21,5 x 29 cm

Lemon spread over my body, 2022

Raku fired ceramic figurines
16 x 6,5 cm

Sour Things, Sour Things Collection, 2022

Stoneware
6,5 x 13 x 19,5 cm

Sour bodies from Sour Things Collection, 2022

Raku
18 x3,5 cm

Sour Touch, 2022

Stoneware
15 x 10,5 cm

Hand kneaded trays from “The Tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth", 2021

Stoneware
9,5 x 34 cm

The Tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth, 2022

Ceramic
3,5 x 13 x 14 cm

Dessert bowls from “The Tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth” performance, 2021

Ceramic
Variable dimensions

Ulla from “The Tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth", 2021

Stoneware
28 x 32 cm

Bread from Sour Things Collection and “The Tongue tracing the hand tracing the earth” production, 2022

Stoneware
7 x 36 cm

Sour Things: The Kitchen, 2023

Powder-coated metal, videos, soundscape, textile, ceramics, plaster, ferments, lemon and salt Mixed media installation
235 x 200 x 220 cm

Press

Books

Artist Biography

Mirna Bamieh

Mirna Bamieh

Mirna Bamieh has participated in various international exhibitions and festivals, including Biennial Gherdeina, Dolomites/ Italy, 2023. Sharjah Biennial 15/ Sharjah, 2023. Tashweesh Festival-Tanzquartier/ Vienna, 2022. Aesthetic of the Political festival- Bozart /Brussels 2020. Where No Wall Remains, LAB Biennial, New York (2019); Qalandiya Palestine (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018); Museum of Fine Arts, Japan (2017); Tokyo Wonder Site (2017); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2017); After the Last Sky, Berlin (2016); Halcyon, Transart Berlin Triennial (2016); Marrakech Biennial (2016); I Spy With My Little Eye, Mosaic Rooms, London; Casa Árabe, Madrid (2015); Exposure 2014, Beirut Art Center (2014); Encounters Film Festival, Bristol (2014); Cork Film Festival, Ireland (2014); and Eye on Palestine Art and Film Festival, Brussels (2014).

She has taken part in several art residencies, including The Invisible Dog Art Center, New York (2023, 2021). Windler Stiftung, Stein am Rhein (2023). Binz 39, Zurich (2022). Vooruit, Belgium (2020). Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland (2019-2021). Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan (2016). Art Omi, New York (2015); and Delfina Foundation, London (2012).


Bamieh’s grants and awards include Dr Georg and Josi Guggenheim Foundation Award, Zurich (2022); CEC ArtsLink International Fellowship, New York (2020); The Visible Project Award (long list), Paris (2017); and A.M Qattan Foundation Artist of the Year Award 2012.


She obtained a BA in Psychology from Birzeit University, Ramallah (2002-2006) and an MFA in Fine Arts from Bezalel Academy for Arts and Design, Jerusalem (2010-2013), Ashkal Alwan Homeworks Study program, Beirut (2013-2014), Culinary Arts Kitchenclub Academy, Ramallah
(2016).