Marwan Moujaes is a Lebanese-French visual artist. He is Associate Professor in Visual Arts at the University of Strasbourg and holds a PhD in Art and Art Sciences from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He studied painting at the Lebanese University in Beirut and graduated from the École supérieure d’art et de design de Valenciennes and the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Univeristy in Paris. His practice moves between artistic production, theoretical research, and teaching, and is shaped by a sustained engagement with affect, temporality, and shapes of historical mourning.

Working across painting, video, installation, sculpture, performance, and site-responsive practice, Moujaes develops a body of work attentive to what places, surfaces, animals, gardens, and built environments continue to hold in spite of erasure, censorship, or political violence. Through processes of displacement, infiltration, détour, and formal trickery, his works seek out fragile modes of proximity to worlds marked by opacity, damage, and historical burden.

Moujaes has participated in numerous residency programs, including Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Villa Empain in Brussels, Gamleby Tingshus in Sweden, Prendendo Tempo in Italy, as well as residencies and production programs with Le Shed in Maromme, Galerie Duchamp in Yvetot, and the Cité internationale des arts in Paris.

His work has been shown internationally in institutions and art spaces including SALTS in Basel, the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Villa Empain in Brussels, Fondazione Baruchello in Rome, the Nicolas Sursock Museum in Beirut, and the Contemporary Art Center of Noisy-le-Sec, among others. He was awarded the Prix du Public at the Sciences Po Prize for Contemporary Art in Paris in 2017, received the Boghossian Foundation Villa Empain Residency Award in 2020, the RN13Bis production grant in 2020, and the DRAC Normandie production grant in 2021.

Alongside his artistic practice, Moujaes is affiliated with the ACTE Institute at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the ACCRA research unit at the University of Strasbourg.

His writings and research have been published in collective volumes, journals, and magazines, and presented regularly in conferences, seminars, and public talks.