Asma Mnaouar
- Horizons 1, 2020, Oil on canvas, 140x120 cm
- Mare Nostrum 1, 2019, Oil on canvas, 120x140 cm
- Abstraction 5, 2019, Oil on canvas, 110x120 cm
- Mare Nostrum 5, 2014, Oil on canvas, Diptych, 50x50 cm each
- Architecture 9, 2014. Oil on canvas, 130x100 cm
- Exhibition view, Horizons, 2021, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
- Exhibition view, Horizons, 2021, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
- Exhibition view, Horizons, 2021, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
- Exhibition view, Horizons, 2021, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
- Exhibition view, Horizons, 2021, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
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Biography
Tunisian born, Asma M'Naouar graduated in Aesthetics and Arts Science from the Institut des Beaux-arts of Tunis in 1988, before she pursued her academic training in Italy at the Rome Art Academy in 1993. Awarded a number of artist residency grants, she stayed in Switzerland, France and Lebanon. Then, she settled in Italy in 2002 where she completed her Master in Conservation at Palazzo Spinelli in Florence. She was awarded various prizes including the 1st Prize of the critic “Giordano Bruno” in Solerno, Italy, in 1993 and the First Golden Prize at the Biennale of Kuwait in 1996. In 1999, she was awarded the 1st Prize for Visual Art by the Ministry of Culture in Tunisia.
Since 1996, Asma has been regularly exhibiting at Elmarsa gallery where she had her latest solo exhibition in June 2014. She took part in numerous group shows. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and biennials in North Africa, Europe and the Middle East such as Sharjah Biennale (1995), Palazzo Suevo Bari, Italy (1998), the National Museum of Art in Kaunas/Lithuania (2003), Municipal museum of Pultsk in Poland (2004), the Arab World Institute in Paris (2008), Dar El Founoun in Tunis, Algiers, Rabat (2008), and the Palais Namaskar in Marrakech as part of the exhibition “Symbiose de deux mondes-L’Europe et le Maghreb” organised by The Written Art Foundation in Franckfurt. She also participated in the itinerant exhibition “Un Autre Regard” in Tunis in 2000 and in 2004 in Switzerland. She took part in international art forums as a guest speaker such as at the Global Art Forum at Art Dubai and at the Palais Namaskar in Marrakech within the framework of the exhibition. In 2015, she took part in the travelling exhibition « All the World’s a Mosque » in Carthage, Tunisia, curated by Lina Lazaar.
Her works can be found in many public and private collections including The Foundation Pietro Caporella in Rome, the Center Rachid Karamé in Tripoli, Lebanon and the Ministry of Culture in Tunisia as well as private collections in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.Exhibitions
Born in 1965, Tunis (Tunisia).Lives and works in Tunis
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
2003 Master in Conservation - Institute for Art and Restoration, Palazzo Spinelli, Florence, Italy
2001 Intergovernmental Agency of the Francophonie in Tripoli, Lebanon
1997 Residency with the Workshop of Tunisia - International City of Arts Paris
1996 Residency with the Workshop of Tunisia - International City of Arts Paris
1995 Residency with the Bildzwang Workshop, Pro-Helvetia at Lucerne, Switzerland
1994 Residency with the Bildzwang Workshop, Pro-Helvetia at Lucerne, Switzerland
1993 Graduate of the Academy of the fine arts of Rome - Emphasis in Painting
1988 Control in Aesthetics and Arts sciences - I.T.A.A.U.T. University of Tunis
SOLO SHOWS (Selection)
2021 “Horizons”, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai
2014 “City”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2010 “Untitled, 2010”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2009 Galerie Gilbert Dufois, Senlis, France
2008 Exhibition at the Raiffeisenbank, Vienna, Austria
2006 “Natura”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2004 “Mare Nostrum”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2004 “Mare Nostrum”, Dante Alghieri, Rome, Italy
2002 “Mare Nostrum II”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
1998 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
1997 Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
1996 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
1993 “Mare Nostrum”, Gallery I.M.M.ART. Fondation Caporella, Roma, Italy
GROUP SHOWS (selection)
2021 “A Tunisian story…”, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2019 “What is a box?” Jacques Derrida, curated by Mohamed Ali-Berhouma, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunis, Tunisia
2017 “Modern art from North Africa”, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2016 “Yesterday is tomorrow's memory: a group show of work from North Africa”, Elmarsa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2013 “Symbiose de deux mondes-L’Europe et le Maghreb”, Palais Namaskar in Marrakech, initiated by The Written Art Foundation in Franckfurt.
2010 Arab Art Festival, next to the Exposition Universelle of Shangaï, China
2009 “Sur les traces de la peinture contemporaine” (Tunisian Contemporary Painting), Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2009 Group exhibition, BIAT- Banque Internationale Arabe de Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia
2008 “The Emirates through the Arab Contemporary Artists’ Insights”, organized by the Ministry of Culture of the United Arab Emirates, DIFC, Dubai, UAE
2008 “Artistes arabes entre l’Italie et le Maghreb” (“Arab artists between Italy and the Maghreb”), Dar El founoun, Tunis, Alger, Rabat
2008 Exhibitions of women in the occasion of the 13 of August, Saragossa, Spain
2008 “Art connexions”, Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2008 Printemps des Arts, Palais Abdelliya, La Marsa, Tunisia
2007 “Femmes créatives de Tunisie”, Palais de l’UNESCO, Paris, France
2006 “Mémoire de Demain” Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2006 Arab Art Festival, Beijing, China
2005 “Tunisian women and art” UNESCO and IMA-Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
2005 “Regard sur la Tunisie” Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2004 Municipal museum “Four Corners of the World”, Pultsk, Poland
2004 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2003 MK Ciurlionis - National Museum of Art, Kaunas, Lithuania
2003 “5 + 5 Artists of Two Banks of the Mediterranean” Acropolium museum of Carthage, Tunisia
2003 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2002 Hordaland International Art Gallery, Bergen, Norway
2002 Exhibitions “French-speaking Artists” 9th summit of the “francophonie”, Palais de l’UNESCO, Beirut, Lebanon
2002 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2001 “Europ' Art” Geneva, Switzerland
2001 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
2000 “Variations 2000” Gallery El Teatro, Tunis, Tunisia
2000 Exposition Universelle of Hanover, Tunisian Pavilion, Germany
2000 Exhibition of Swiss artists having lived in Tunisia and Tunisian artists having lived in Switzerland
2000 “Un autre regard” (A different insight), Palais Kheireddine, Tunis, Tunisia
2000 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
1999 “Beirut cultural capital” Palais de l’UNESCO, Beirut, Lebanon
1999 Elmarsa Gallery, Tunisia
1998 Exposition Universelle of Lisbon, Portugal
1998 “Dix années de jeune peinture tunisienne”, Palazzo Suevo Bari, Italy
1997 “Another glance” Museum of Modern Art of Bienn/ Gallery ITTEN, Bienn, Switzerland
1997 “Ten years of young Tunisian painting” Charles de Gaulle Library, Tunis, Tunisia
1996 “Chassé croisé” Tunisian and European Painters of the 20th century, Palais Kheireddine, Tunis, Tunisia
1995 “Kunswinter” Contemporary art museum of Luzern, Switzerland.
1995 Biennale of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
1994 “Crossing cultures” Gallery MAE, Marseilles, France/ Museum of Carthage, Tunisia
1994 “Folgoratti sulla via di Damasco” Covent of Saint Onofrio, Rome
1994 “The light, the project, the form” with Molinari and Vinciguerra, Fondation Caporella, Italy
1993 “Mare Nostrum” Galerie I.M.M.ART, Rome, Italy
PRIZES AND AWARDS
2009 1st Prize for the best representation of the city of Kairouan, Cultural capital of the Islamic world, delivered by the ASESCO (UNESCO).
1999 1st Prize of Creation, Ministry of Culture, Tunisia
1996 “Golden Sailing” - 1st Prize - Biennale of Kuwait
1993 1st Prize of the critic “Giordano Bruno” - Campagna - Solerno - Italy
PUBLIC SELECTION
Private collections in the UAE
Ministry of Culture in United Arab Emirates
Ministry of Culture in Lebanon
Ministry of Culture in Tunisia
The Foundation Pietro Caporella in Roma, Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2004 « Arts de Tunisie », Simpact Edition Française Tunis, Khaled Ben Romdhane
2002 « La quête de la Tunisianité » (the quest of tunisianity), Editions Finzi, Mustapha Chelbi, Tunisia
1997 « L’Aventure de l’Art Moderne en Tunisie », Edition Simpact, Ali Louati, Tunisia
FILMOGRAPHY
2007 « Huit femmes tunisiennes peintres » (Eight Tunisian women painters), documentary film by Hmida Ben Ammar, produced by Baheddine Attia, presented at the festival « Doc à Tunis ».
CATALOGUES
2008 « Les Emirats vus par les artistes arabes contemporains », Dubai, UAE
2008 « Artistes Arabes entre l’Italie et le Maghreb », Martina Corgnati/Toni Maraïni, Tunisia.
2007 « Global Art Forum », WAI – World Arab Institute, Paris.
2004 « Impressions croisées », exhibition at Palais Khereddine, Tunisia
2000 « Exposition de l’Art Contemporain », Palais de l’UNESCO, Beirut, Lebanon
1997 « Un autre regard », Swiss painters in Tunisia and Tunisians in Switzerland, Bienn, Switzerland
1997 « Dix années de jeune peinture tunisienne », Tunis
1994 « Folgorati sulla via di Damasco », Roma
1993 « La luce, il progetto, e la forma », with Molinari et Vinciguerra, RomaNews
AWARE: Archives of Women artists
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Dubai Lowdown: Exhibitions to See
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“Horizons” Art Exhibition by Asma M'Naouar at Elmarsa Gallery
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