Mirna Bamieh explores the politics of disappearance and the production of memory, tracing how Palestinian communities navigate loss, continuity, and erasure within ongoing political realities.

With a background spanning visual arts, culinary arts, and sociology/psychology, her practice brings together food and storytelling as forms of cultural and social inquiry. In 2018, she founded Palestine Hosting Society, a long-term live art project that unfolds through dinner performances and participatory interventions. Drawing on culinary traditions and the transmission of recipes across generations, the project reactivates Palestinian food practices that exist under threat of disappearance.

Since 2019, Bamieh has turned toward a more intimate inquiry, examining personal history in relation to collective memory through the lens of fermentation. Working across text, sound, ceramics, drawing, and video, she develops site-specific installations that consider fermentation as both material process and metaphor. This ongoing body of work takes form in her series Sour Things, where transformation, time, and unseen processes shape new modes of connection.

Bamieh has performed and exhibited her work at several distinguished venues such Tate Modern, Kunsthaus Zurich, Fondazione Merz, Sharjah Biennial, MoMAPS1, Tanzquartier, TBA21 among others.

Has been featured in major media outlets such as Umbigo, New York Times, Hyperallergic, AD Middle East, Conde Nast, Canvas, Contemporânia, The National and Art Monthly.

She received several awards such as A.M Qattan Founation’s Artist of the year award, and Josi Guggenhein Foundation award, and was a finalist for Molskin’s award for social change in 2026.

Her works are in several private and public collections such as Sharjah Foundation, Kunsthaus Zurich and Thyssen Bornemisza collection and Institut du Monde Arab.



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