Marwa Arsanios

researcher, educator, and artist
Marwa Arsanios is an artist and researcher focusing, in particular, on gender relations, spatial practices, and land struggles. Working across disciplines, her artistic practice is often developed out of research that is done collaboratively. She is the co-founder of the research project 98weeks. She is currently a PhD candidate at Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna. 
Arsanios’s recent solo and group exhibitions include Micro Resistances, Kunsthalle Bratislava, 2023–2024; Matter of Alliances, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, 2023; Reverse Shot, The Mosaic Room, London, 2022; A Letter Inside a Letter, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, 2021; Who is Afraid of Ideology?, Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, 2018; Falling is not Collapsing, Falling is Extending, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, 2017; and Hammer Projects: Marwa Arsanios, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2016. Arsanios lives and works in Berlin and Beirut.  

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Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, exhibition opening BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Design: Sean van Steenhoven
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, installation view BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
Design: Sean van den Steenhoven
Design: Sean van den Steenhoven
Denise Ferreira da Silva, speaking as pa
Denise Ferreira da Silva, speaking as part of the “Spectral Labor and Unpayable Debt” panel during the 2-day online symposium As for Protocols—To Hold Things Together, curated by BAK for Vera List, 20–21 May 2021
Printing slogans as part of the “Undoi
Printing slogans as part of the “Undoing Debt” reading group which discussed A Feminist Reading of Debt, Kiosk, Rotterdam, 28 April 2024. Photo: Alexandra Martens Serrano
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney in convers
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney in conversation as part of Propositions for Non-Fascist Living, October 2017
Marwa Arsanios, Chart for the Usership o
Marwa Arsanios, Chart for the Usership of Land, prints on paper, 2022, installation detail, Usufructuaries of earth, chpater one, exhibition, BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht. Ten banners each depiciting a sentence that address the rig
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth,
Marwa Arsanios, Usufructuaries of earth, exhibition opening BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, 2024, photo: Tom Janssen
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideolog
Marwa Arsanios, Who Is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1, film still, 2017