exhibition & performance
OHrGrüN / VerT d‘OreiLLe
Myriam El Haïk
19/04 – 26/04/2026
curated by Aline Lenzhofer
Opening & Performance, April 19, 2026, 3 pm
Impro-Session: April 20, 2026, 7 pm
as part of the Salam Music Festival
Venue: philomena+ project room, Heinestraße 40, 1020 Vienna
Myriam El Haïk, OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe, 2025, photo: Emil Bauer
The artist and composer Myriam El Haïk connects music and visual art in her works. Starting with minimalist compositions, she develops sign systems that translate musical structures into visual forms. Writing and playing take on a central role in this process. By consciously subverting conventions, the artist creates her own rules and systems.
Her performance installation OHrGrüN / VerT d‘OreiLLe fits into this working method. Based on the French expression “ver d’oreille” (earworm), the work deals with words and sounds, mistranslations, and their poetic potential to generate new meanings and imaginary worlds. The result is a poetry-based performance, conceived as a live collage of spoken word, invented language, music, images, and performative actions
artist
MYRIAM EL HAÏK
(*1973 in Rabat) is a French-Moroccan artist, composer and performer. Her artistic language is based on simple signs, patterns, or actions. The links between music and visual art take center stage in her work. She develops systems of visual notations, transposing her repetitive and minimalist musical compositions into drawings, performances, videos, installations, sculptures, and even furniture and games.
OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe is part of Against the Playbook, a multistage project that explores the subversive power of play when it comes to questioning rules, social norms, structures, and conventions.
Against the Playbook is a collaboration between DAS WEISSE HAUS, where it unfolds as a group show and PHILOMENA+, which hosts two residencies, the exhibition Public Intimacy by Amal Al-Nakhala, Sedra Arab, and Engy Mohsen as well asthe performance and installation OHrGrüN / VerT d’OreiLLe by Myriam El Haïk.
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