Nour Sokhon

Based between Beirut and Berlin, Nour Sokhon’s practice draws on archival methods and the activation of inanimate matter as living narrators, taking the form of sound and music pieces, performances, interactive installations, and moving-image works.

She earned a master’s degree of Design in Sound for the Moving Image from The Glasgow School of Art. She received the Emerging Artist Prize from the Sursock Museum in 2019, for a moving image piece entitled Revisiting: Hold Your Breath and was awarded the Sound Art 2020 scholarship by Lower Saxony and the University of Fine Arts in Braunschweig.
In the fall of 2024 Beirut Birds / طیور بیروت her debut solo album, was digitally released on aural conduct and was produced with the support of the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture – AFAC.

Nour Sokhon has exhibited her artwork intenationally and performed in various sound/ music festivals including This Is Not Lebanon (2021), Punkt Festival (2023), Gaudeamus Festival (2023), United in Grief (2024), Vorspiel (2024), the Biennale d’Aix (2024), Salam Music (2025), Mapping Sounds in Exile (2025), IFFI (2025), Avant Art Festival Berlin (2025) and Sonic Acts (2026).

Her work has also been shown at institutions such as Spatial Sound Institute, Beirut Art Center, SAVVY Contemporary, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Silent Green, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, GMEM, Frankfurt Lab, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Kampnagel Hamburg and neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK).

Artist’s website:
https://www.noursokhon.com/

Links:
https://ibraaz.org/ibraaz-publishing/watch/beruit-birds

https://auralconduct.bandcamp.com/album/beirut-birds