About
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East stemming from poetry, music, art and religious practices. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is currently based in Berlin.
Publications
Selection of solo exhibitions:
Holy Quarter Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao | 2022 |
Behind the Sun Digital Arts Resource Center, Ottawa | 2022 |
DIVER Art Gallery of Burlington, Toronto | 2021 |
Holy Quarter Haus der Kunst, Munich | 2020 |
Empire Dye Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen | 2019 |
RESERVOIR BITS Circl Pavilion, Amsterdam | 2018 |
The Craft Sursock Museum, Beirut | 2017 |
The Craft Gasworks, London | 2017 |
Attempts to Read the World Differently Stroom Den Haag, the Hague | 2017 |
Bubble ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin | 2017 |
Legacy ATHR Gallery, Jeddah | 2017 |
Muhawwil (Transformer) Sultan Gallery, Kuwait | 2014 |
The Tragedy of Self Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan | 2009 |
Selection of group exhibitions:
The Milk of Dreams The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022, Venice | 2022 |
Feeling the Stones Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennial, Riyadh | 2022 |
Expo 2020, Dubai | 2021 |
Phantasmapolis 2021 Asia Art Biennial, Taiwan | 2021 |
One Escape at a Time Seoul Mediacity Biennial, Seoul | 2021 |
Experiences of Oil Stavanger Art Museum, Norway | 2021 |
Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany | 2021 |
The Sun Machine is Coming Down Berliner Festspiele, Berlin | 2021 |
Studio Berlin Boros & Berghain, Berlin | 2021 |
Sunrise | Sunset Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin | 2021 |
Ruhr Ding: Klima, Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Recklinghausen, Germany | 2021 |
Intermingling Flux, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China | 2021 |
Not Fully Human, Not Human at All Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg | 2021 |
Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | 2020 |
Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories, Migros Museum, Zurich | 2020 |
Body. Gaze. Power: A Cultural History of the Bath, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden | 2020 |
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York | 2019-2020 |
History is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota | 2019 |
Forum Expanded / Berlinale, Berlin |
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The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane | 2018 |
6th Athens Biennial, Athens | 2018 |
Lulea Biennial, Sweden | 2018 |
20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo | 2017 |
Glasstress 2017, Palazzo Franchetti San Marco, Venice | 2017 |
Lets Talk about the Weather: Art & Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut | 2016 |
Invisible Threads: Technology & its Discontents, NYU Abu Dhabi | 2016 |
DUST, CCA Warsaw, Poland | 2015 |
Whose Subject Am I?, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany | 2015 |
Accented, Maraya Arts Center, Sharjah, UAE | 2015 |
The Return of Ghosts, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan | 2014 |
Never Never Land, Edge of Arabia Projects, London | 2014 |
Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon | 2013 |
X-Apartments, Home Works 6, Beirut, Lebanon | 2013 |
50/20, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait | 2011 |
Paradiso, Watermill Center, New York | 2010 |
Tokyo Wonder Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | 2008 |
In Transition Russia, Moscow Center of Contemporary Art | 2008 |
Selection of Screenings:
Video Art at Midnight, Babylon Cinema, Berlin | 2019 |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 2018 |
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam | 2018 |
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt | 2017 |
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris | 2016 |
Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival | 2014 |
Where is My Territory?, Whitechapel Gallery, London | 2014 |
Parle Pour Toi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris | 2014 |
Medrar Cairo Video Festival, Egypt | 2014 |
Aboveground Animation, New Museum, New York | 2012 |
Art Screen, Obrero, Sweden | 2012 |
Arab Shorts, Arsenale, Berlin | 2012 |
Gulf Film Festival, Dubai | 2008, 2009 |
About
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of the Arts, where her research was focused on the aesthetics of sadness in the Middle-East stemming from poetry, music, art and religious practices. Her work explores unconventional gender identities, petro-cultures and their possible futures, as well as the legacies of corruption. She is currently based in Berlin.
Contact
Publications
Selection of solo exhibitions:
Holy Quarter Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao | 2022 |
Behind the Sun Digital Arts Resource Center, Ottawa | 2022 |
DIVER Art Gallery of Burlington, Toronto | 2021 |
Holy Quarter Haus der Kunst, Munich | 2020 |
Empire Dye Kunstverein Göttingen, Göttingen | 2019 |
RESERVOIR BITS Circl Pavilion, Amsterdam | 2018 |
The Craft Sursock Museum, Beirut | 2017 |
The Craft Gasworks, London | 2017 |
Attempts to Read the World Differently Stroom Den Haag, the Hague | 2017 |
Bubble ACUD Macht Neu, Berlin | 2017 |
Legacy ATHR Gallery, Jeddah | 2017 |
Muhawwil (Transformer) Sultan Gallery, Kuwait | 2014 |
The Tragedy of Self Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan | 2009 |
Selection of group exhibitions:
The Milk of Dreams The 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia 2022, Venice | 2022 |
Feeling the Stones Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennial, Riyadh | 2022 |
Expo 2020, Dubai | 2021 |
Phantasmapolis 2021 Asia Art Biennial, Taiwan | 2021 |
One Escape at a Time Seoul Mediacity Biennial, Seoul | 2021 |
Experiences of Oil Stavanger Art Museum, Norway | 2021 |
Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany | 2021 |
The Sun Machine is Coming Down Berliner Festspiele, Berlin | 2021 |
Studio Berlin Boros & Berghain, Berlin | 2021 |
Sunrise | Sunset Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin | 2021 |
Ruhr Ding: Klima, Urbane Kunste Ruhr, Recklinghausen, Germany | 2021 |
Intermingling Flux, Guangzhou Image Triennial, Guangzhou, China | 2021 |
Not Fully Human, Not Human at All Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg | 2021 |
Our World is Burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | 2020 |
Potential Worlds 1: Planetary Memories, Migros Museum, Zurich | 2020 |
Body. Gaze. Power: A Cultural History of the Bath, Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Baden Baden | 2020 |
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991-2011, MoMA PS1, New York | 2019-2020 |
History is Not Here: Art and the Arab Imaginary, Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota | 2019 |
Forum Expanded / Berlinale, Berlin |
|
The 9th Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane | 2018 |
6th Athens Biennial, Athens | 2018 |
Lulea Biennial, Sweden | 2018 |
20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil, Sao Paulo | 2017 |
Glasstress 2017, Palazzo Franchetti San Marco, Venice | 2017 |
Lets Talk about the Weather: Art & Ecology in a Time of Crisis, Sursock Museum, Beirut | 2016 |
Invisible Threads: Technology & its Discontents, NYU Abu Dhabi | 2016 |
DUST, CCA Warsaw, Poland | 2015 |
Whose Subject Am I?, Kunstverein Dusseldorf, Germany | 2015 |
Accented, Maraya Arts Center, Sharjah, UAE | 2015 |
The Return of Ghosts, Hong-Gah Museum, Taiwan | 2014 |
Never Never Land, Edge of Arabia Projects, London | 2014 |
Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon | 2013 |
X-Apartments, Home Works 6, Beirut, Lebanon | 2013 |
50/20, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait | 2011 |
Paradiso, Watermill Center, New York | 2010 |
Tokyo Wonder Wall, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan | 2008 |
In Transition Russia, Moscow Center of Contemporary Art | 2008 |
Selection of Screenings:
Video Art at Midnight, Babylon Cinema, Berlin | 2019 |
The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 2018 |
Rotterdam Film Festival, Rotterdam | 2018 |
Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt | 2017 |
Le Centre Pompidou, Paris | 2016 |
Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival | 2014 |
Where is My Territory?, Whitechapel Gallery, London | 2014 |
Parle Pour Toi, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris | 2014 |
Medrar Cairo Video Festival, Egypt | 2014 |
Aboveground Animation, New Museum, New York | 2012 |
Art Screen, Obrero, Sweden | 2012 |
Arab Shorts, Arsenale, Berlin | 2012 |
Gulf Film Festival, Dubai | 2008, 2009 |