MONIRA AL QADIRI

Selected Press

Kunstkompass \| The Art Stars of Tomorrow - Number 4 Monira Al Qadiri (German)	27.11.2023
Monopol Magazine \| Top 100 Most Important Figures in the Art World (German)	20.11.2023
K-Art Now \| The World's Most Influential Contemporary Artists Ranked by Germany's Kunstkompass	20.11.2023
The Art Newspaper China \| Where Pearls, Oil and the Sea Meet, A Doomsday Prophecy Emerges in Haunted Water (Chinese)	17.08.2023
Ocula \| Best Institutional Exhibitions in 2023: In Photos	27.07.2023
E-Flux \| Monira Al Qadiri: Mutant Passages exhibition announcement	27.04.2023
ORF \| Monira Al Qadiri's exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz (Video - German)	20.04.2023
Art Papers \| Refined Vision review by Park Myers & winter issue cover	01.02.2023
BerlinArtLink \| Studio Visit with Monira Al Qadiri by Dagmara Genda	09.08.2022
Monopol Magazine \| Artist Al Qadiri Receives the Fellbach Triennale Prize (German)	08.08.2022
The White Review \| No. 33 Interview and cover	30.07.2022
Artnet \| Biennial Stars: Meet the 17 Artists who Have Defined Our Current Era of International Art Shows	09.06.2022
ARTE \| Arte Twist: Venice Biennale 2022 interview (Video, German)	20.05.2022
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao \| Discover Monira Al Qadiri (Video, Spanish)	01.04.2022
Art Asia Pacific \| The Artists of 2021: Monira Al Qadiri by Nicole M. Nepomuceno	01.01.2022
Various Artists \| Globules of Mutated Dissonance by Monira Al Qadiri	08.11.2021
Art Asia Pacific \| One on One - Monira Al Qadiri on Yukio Mishima	01.11.2021
OCULA \| Monira Al Qadiri Dives Deep into Oil interview by Amin Alsaden	03.03.2021
KALEIDOSCOPE \| Dark Genesis interview by Myriam ben Salah	Fall /Winter 2020
HAUS DER KUNST \| Meet the Artist: Monira Al Qadiri	12.06.2020
FRIEZE \| Monira Al Qadiri's Desert Mythology by Hanno Hauenstein	20.03.2020
ARTSY \| The Artsy Vanguard 2019: 50 Artists to Know Right Now	16.12.2019
APOLLO MAGAZINE \| 40‌ Under 40 Middle East	15.12.2019
FRIEZE \| Portfolio – Monira Al Qadiri	07.08.2017
FREUNDE VON FREUNDEN \| Cartoons & the Body as Art by Siobhan Leddy	27.07.2017
TEXTE ZUR KUNST \| The Craft by Ella Plevin	09.2017
BIDOUN \| Sweet Talk: A Conversation with Thuraya Al-Baqsami and Monira Al Qadiri edited by Michael Vazquez	01.03.2018
THE NATIONAL \| A tropical-island, dream-land purgatory place by Melissa Gronlund	17.11.2018
PANTA MAGAZINE \| Oil and Art by Roxanne Goldberg	01.0802017
ARTFORUM \| Openings by Stephanie Bailey	01.05.2015
RASEEF22 \| Being Monira Al Qadiri by Christine Abi Azar (Arabic)	18.06.2016
LIVING CONTENT \| Interview by Brian Paul	30.11.2018

All Press

The Art Newspaper \| As Cop 28 opens in Dubai, museums grapple with net zero by Joe Ware	29.11.2023
The Art Newspaper China \| Whose Ecology? Historical reflections, local narratives, and future declarations of the Mori Art Museum's 20th anniversary exhibition (Chinese)	20.11.2023
About Her \| Kuwaiti Artist Monira Al Qadiri Creates Fantastic Imaginings of the Petrochemical Industry	15.11.2023
Art Asia Pacific \| 24th Biennale of Sydney Announces Lineup	31.10.2023
Crash Magazine \| Rencontres Internationales by Martina Conte	30.10.2023
Artnet \| 5 Exhibitions Not to Miss While Visiting Art Week Tokyo by Vivienne Chow	26.10.2023
Ocula \| 5 Must-See Exhibitions During Art Week Tokyo by Shanyu Zhong	25.10.2023
Numero \| Asia Now: Works not to be missed, between wool tentacles and drill heads by Camille Bois-Martin (French)	20.10.2023
Art Africa \| Dream City 2023: A festival at the heart of reality by Suzette Bell-Roberts	23.10.2023
Business Insider \| Our Ecology at Mori Art Museum by Atsuko Arahata (Japanese)	20.10.2023
Tokyo Art Beat \| Our Ecology at Mori Art Museum (Japanese)	20.10.2023
Bijutsu Techo \| How do artists react to the environment? Our Ecology exhibition at Mori Art Museum (Japanese)	18.10.2023
EFE \| Tokyo's Mori Art Museum explores link between art and ecology in exhibition	17.10.2023
Kunst und Film \| Plastic World by Wibke Weishaupt (German)	18.09.2023
K-Art Now \| Monira Al Qadiri Solo Show "Haunted Water" at UCCA Dune: Oil and Pearl in the Gulf	15.09.2023
Sculpture Network \| Pearly Oil: Monira Al Qadiri's Art on Petro-Culture by Sietske Roorda	14.09.2023
Suddeutsche Zeitung \| So Colorful and Crumbling by Till Briegleb (German)	21.08.2023
Artillery \| Strong Winds Ahead by Alex Garner	03.08.2023
NOWNESS \| Doomsday Fantasy from Kuwait by Lu Ran (Chinese)	12.07.2023
GQ Middle East \| Monira Al Qadiri's "Holy Quarter" on show at Art Basel 2023 by Cat Woods	17.06.2023
Artline \| Ambivalently Shimmering Surfaces by Julia Metzdorf (German)	26.06.2023
PARNASS \| Monira Al Qadiri - Trapped by an Alien by Edith Schlocker (German)	16.06.2023
Whitewall \| Al Qadiri, Doris Salcedo and More Art Basel 2023 Shows by Erica Silverman	13.06.2023
The Collectors Agenda \| Monira Al Qadiri in the Studio (interview)	10.06.2023
Asian Art Newspaper \| Monira Al Qadiri Interview by Olivia Sand	06.06.2023
Numéro \| Between Fascination and Repulsion: Five Artists Questioning our Relationship to Technology and Progress by Camille Bois-Martin (French)	02.06.2023
Kunstund.net \| Monira Al Qadiri "I Call Myself a Post-Oil Baby" by Hildegund Amanshauser (German)	31.05.2023
Monopol Magazin \| Where to this Weekend? (German)	26.05.2023
Stuttgarter Zeitung \| The stuff that we're addicted to by Adrienne Braun (German)	25.05.2023
Salzburger Nachrichten \| Like the Flowers of Evil by Sibylle Fritsch	25.05.2023
Badische Zeitung \| Deceptively Glittering Seduction by Hans-Dieter Fronz (German)	19.05.2023
Kronen Zeitung \| The Colorful Reign of Molecules and Aliens by Thomas Gabler (German)	16.05.2023
Schwaebische Zeitung \| Monira Al Qadiri and Oil in Kunsthaus Bregenz by Antje Merke (German)	05.05.2023
MeinBezirk.at \| Monira Al Qadiri's Art is Banging, Cheering and Awakening by Isabelle Cerha (German)	04.05.2023
Kunstforum \| Monira Al Qadiri in Kunsthaus Bregenz (German)	02.05.2023
Vernissage TV \| Monira Al Qadiri - Mutant Passages / Kunsthaus Bregenz (video)	30.04.2023
Der Standard \| Monira Al Qadiri Opens an Oil Field in Kunsthaus Bregenz by Ivona Jelcic (German)	30.04.2023
Allgäuer Zeitung \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri Stages the Beauty of Horror by Klaus-Peter Mayer (German)	25.04.2023
Luzerne Zeitung \| Oil is Everywhere by Kristin Schmidt (German)	24.04.2023
BR24 \| Oil and Seashells: Monira Al Qadiri in Kunsthaus Bregenz (German)	23.04.2022
Art Salon \| The Oil, The Extraterrestrial	22.04.2023
Deutschlandfunk Kultur \| Bodies and Car Paint (Radio - German)	22.04.2023
VOL.AT \| The Glittering Seduction of Wealth by Sieglinde Wöhrer (German)	20.04.2023
APA \| Monira Al Qadiri "Mutant Passages" in KUB (German)	20.04.2023
E-Flux \| Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present by Ben Eastham	21.02.2023
Ocula \| Art World Predictions for the Year of the Rabbit by Sam Gaskin	27.01.2023
Art Agenda \| Monira Al Qadiri's "Refined Vision" by Valentin Diaconov	27.10.2022
Middle East Eye \| Jurassic World: Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri on oil, war, and Japanese manga by Yvonne Singh	19.10.2022
Stuttgarter Zeitung \| Fellbach Triennale resonates with audiences by Frank Rodenhausen (German)	03.10.2022
e-Flux \| Refined Vision announcement	25.09.2022
The National \| Monira Al Qadiri Explores our Reliance on Fossil Fuels by Maan Jalal	20.08.2022
Vogue \| Inside Selfridge's Super Futures Exhibition in London by Michael Philouze	15.08.2022
Wallpaper \| Qatar Transforms into a Museum of Public Art Ahead of 2022 Fifa World Cup by Harriet Lloyd-Smith	10.08.2022
The Art Newspaper \| Koons, Kusama, KAWS: Qatar Installs 40 More Sculptures in Time for the FIFA World Cup by Lee Cheshire	09.08.2022
Zeit Online \| Al Qadiri from Kuwait Receives the Fellbach Triennale Prize (German)	08.08.2022
Vernissage TV \| Monira Al Qadiri - Venice Biennale 2022 (video)	29.08.2022
I-D \| Inside the London Exhibition Dreaming Up Bold New Futures by Mahoro Seward	26.07.2022
The Business of Fashion \| Selfridges Partners with Berlin's Reference Festival for In-store Exhibition by Tamison O'Connor	01.07.2022
Ara \| The Invisible Revolution by Lurdes Vidal (Catalan)	24.06.2022
Artnet \| Here are the 150 Artists That Curators Hand-picked for The Carnegie International by Taylor Dafoe	22.06.2022
Magpie \| A Future for Dubai Expo 2020	22.06.2022
TROUW \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri hopes that in the future no one would know what drill heads are by Joke de Wolf (Dutch)	07.06.2022
STIR World \| Stirring Dreams: Multi Media Artist Monira Al Qadiri Presents at the Venice Art Biennale by Sukanya Deb	05.06.2022
Artforum \| Experiences of Oil - Stavanger Kunstmuseum review by Adam Kleinman	01.06.2022
My Art Guides \| The Big Return: The Biennale Arte Opens in Venice with a host of Collateral Events and Exhibitions Across the City	20.05.2022
Berlin Art Link \| More Space for Fantasy - Pics from the 59th Venice Biennale of Art by Anna Russ	10.05.2022
KÜNSTLERINNENPREIS \| Laughter through Disaster, or How the Joke Speaks Back Strangely by Nat Muller	04.05.2022
The Paris Review \| Venice Dispatch: from the Biennale by Olivia Kan-Sperling	29.04.2022
The National \| Venice Biennale 2022's 'The Milk of Dreams' - in pictures	27.04.2022
Hyperallergic \| Captivating Highlights from the 2022 Venice Biennale by Laura Raicovich	26.04.2022
KUNA \| Kuwaiti Artist Participates in Venice Biennale with Three Sculptures (Arabic)	25.04.2022
Exibart \| First Impressions of the Venice Biennale (Spanish)	22.04.2022
DW \| How the Venice Biennale Reacts to the Ukraine War (German)	22.04.2022
Quotidiano Nazionale \| Venice Biennale 2022: The First Shots of the Works on Display (Italian)	21.04.2022
Contemporary Art Stavanger \| In Petrochemical Arms by Susanne Christensen (Danish)	13.04.2022
Spike Art Magazine \| A Drowned World (This is How it Ends) Portrait: Monira Al Qadiri and Raed Yassin by Laura Cugusi	06.04.2022
Bizkaia! \| Monira Al Qadiri Holy Quarter Bilbao (Basque)	11.03.2022
Noticias De Navarra \| A Reflection on Oil and Climate Change arrives at the Guggenheim Museum (Spanish)	11.03.2022
Deia \| Monira Al Qadiri reflects on Climate Change at the Guggenheim (Spanish)	10.03.2022
Martin Cid Magazine \| Hayward Gallery announces new outdoor commissions by Anthea Hamilton, Jyll Bradley and Monira Al Qadiri	03.03.2022
Architectural Digest \| Take an Art Tour Of Expo 2020 Dubai	28.02.2022
The Japan Times \| Theater Commons Tokyo Rethinks the 'Voices' of Performing Arts in the Covid Era by Andrew and Mika Eglinton	20.02.2022
Orient XXI \| When the End of the Oil Era Comes to Dubai Expo by Amelie Mouton	12.02.2022
Ocula \| Venice Biennale 2022 to Reframe Art History as a Story of 'Symbiosis, Solidarity and Sisterhood' by Sam Gaskin	04.02.2022
Recto Verso \| A Voyage on the North Sea. Experiences of Oil at Stavanger Art Museum by Peter Vermeulen	21.01.2022
Selections Magazine \| A Celebration of Public Art in Expo 2020 Dubai	05.01.2022
The National \| Six Must-See Artworks at the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale by Alexandra Chaves	22.12.2021
Wall Street International \| Experiences of Oil review	21.12.2021
Nafas Art Magazine \| Interview with Monira Al Qadiri by Pat Binder and Gerhard Haupt	17.12.2021
Art of the Working Class \| Do You Believe in Life After Oil? by Ben Livne Weitzman	08.12.2022
Forbes \| New Exhibition Questions Norway's Trillion Dollar Oil Industry by Joanne Shurvell	01.12.2021
Axis Mag \| Performances, music and film inside a space-ship like atmosphere by Saki Hibino (Japanese)	15.11.2021
Flee Project \| Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony	12.11.2021
Ocula \| 8th Asian Art Biennale Looks Back to Look Forward by Esther Lu	10.11.2021
Architectural Digest \| Take An Art Tour of Expo 2020 Dubai by Benedetta Ghione	29.10.2021
Lampoon Magazine \| Monira Al Qadiri: The Human Being is a Tragic Subject Both on a Geospatial and Spiritual Scale by Giulia Ottavia Frattini	22.10.2021
The National \| Expo 2020's Public Art Program: The Best Works to See by Melissa Gronlund	11.10.2021
RBB Kultur \| Collaborators Monira Al Qadiri and Raed Yassin at ICC (Video interview - German)	09.10.2021
Berlin Art Link \| Berliner Festspiele Activates Retro-Futuristic ICC Building by Alice Connolly O'Brien	05.10.2021
CNN Arabic \| What's the secret of this Alien-like Sculpture at Dubai Expo? (Video interview - Arabic)	04.10.2021
Universe in Universe \| Expo 2020 Public Art Programme	03.10.2021
Artforum \| Saudi Arabia's First Biennial Announces Participating Artists	24.09.2021
Bijutsu Techo \| Supporting Berlin's Club Culture through Art - a venture by "Studio Berlin" by Saki Hibino (Japanese)	20.09.2021
France 24 \| Monira Al Qadiri's Visual Project: a Dark View Filled with Color TV interview by Lina Saleh (Arabic)	08.09.2021
Berliner Zeitung \| The Oil and Aliens of Monira Al Qadiri by Claire Koron	02.08.2021
DSCENE \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri Talks Art and Environment interview by Katarina Djoric	12.07.2021
The Art Newspaper \| Dubai's long-awaited Expo announces artist line-up by Nadine Khalil	06.07.2021
Vogue Arabia \| This Kuwaiti Artist's Sculpture is Dubai Expo's First Permanent Public Artwork by Apoorva Dudani	04.07.2021
The National \| What Monira Al Qadiri's otherwordly Expo 2020 Dubai Sculpture says about the UAE by Melissa Gronlund	04.07.2021
E-Flux \| Public Art program unveiled at Expo 2020 Dubai	04.07.2021
Art Review \| Gnarly Symbiosis: Can Art Help Us Understand Our Relationship to Nature? by Martin Herbert	09.06.2021
Gallery Talk.net \| Ruhr Ding Klima at Glesenkirchen, Herne, Recklinghausen & Haltern am See (German)	09.06.2021
Artmagazine.cc \| Sunrise \| Sunset: Cat pheromones, Octopods, and the Reconfigured role of Humans by Holiday Nadja Karrash (German)	21.03.2021
HAWA Magazine \| Towards a Certain Fall by Alexis Loisel-Montambaux (French)	09.01.2021
STIR World \| An Exhibition in Hamburg Explores Dehumanization in Europe by Jones John	02.01.2021
GRIOT Mag \| Monira Al Qadiri: About the End of Oil interview by Eric Otieno (Italian)	02.09.2020
KULT Italy \| Human Nature by Fausto Colombo (Italian)	11.09.2020
POLY MAGAZINE \| In the Deep End by Hervé Lévy (French)	12.07.2020
KUNSTHALLE BADEN-BADEN \| Kunsthalle Revisited online feature	08.07.2020
HAUS DER KUNST BLOG \| A Holy Quarter in a Bifurcated Country by Saud Al-Zaid	03.07.2020
ART SPECTACLE ASIA \| Our World is Burning at Palais de Tokyo by Xuan Mai Ardia	22.05.2020
DONAKURIER \| Transcendence and Bureaucracy by Joachim Goetz (German)	11.05.2020
QANTARA \| In Awe of the Cosmos by Claudia Mende	04.05.2020
PZ-NEWS \| Is Bathing a Sin? by Susanne Kupke (German)	11.03.2020
GALLERY TALK \| Encapsulated - Capsule 11 and 12 at Haus der Kunst by Quirin Brunnmeier (German)	31.01.2020
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG \| The Glass Bead Game by Evelyn Vogel (German)	30.01.2020
GOSEE ART \| Poetry, Myth and the Fossil Fuel Industry	29.01.2020
PASSE-AVANT \| The Sublime Beauty of Destruction by Radia Soukni	24.11.2019
GÖTTINGER TAGEBLATT \| The Beauty of the Drilling Heads: Monira Al Qadiri's Empire Dye in the Old Town Hall by Tobias Christ (German)	09.20.2019
ARAMCO WORLD \| A Crude History by Beliz Tecirli	01.03.2019
ELEPHANT MAGAZINE \| The Seductive Allure of the Diner by Louise Benson	02.07.2019
ARTFORUM \| Crude by Douglas Coupland	01.05.2019
PW MAGAZINE \| Interview by Juliana Lindenhofer	26.05.2019
METROPOLIS M \| Phantom Beard review and interview by Ive Stevenheydens (Dutch)	23.05.2019
GALLERY TALK \| Phantom Beard review by Jette Büchsenschütz (German)	29.05.2019
KUNSTKRITIKK \| Homeric Escape by Martin Grennberger	25.02.2019
SCHIRN MAG \| Film highlights of the Berlinale 2019 (German)	22.02.2019
DER TAGESSPIEGEL \| When Cinema Meets Art by Friederike Horstmann (German)	10.02.2019
MADA MASR \| A History of Petro-Modernism in the Middle-East: Crude by Mai El Wakil	31.01.2019
METROPOLIS M \| Future Generation Art Prize: Taus Makhacheva, Monira Al Qadiri and Kasper Bosmans nominated	28.09.2019
DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER I Pearls and Oil by Roos van der Lint (Dutch)	19.09.2018
ARTNET \| Meet the seven power players remaking the cultural landscape of the Middle-East by Arsalan Mohammad	12.04.2018
DI'VAN JOURNAL \| Tomorrow Girls: Sci-fi, Other Worlds and Geopolitics in Media Art from the Middle-East by Nat Muller	06.03.2018
ARTFORUM \| The Craft review by Sylwia Serafinowicz	01.011.2017
THE DAILY STAR \| Ode to the Extraterrestrial Modern by Jim Quilty	23.01.2018
DE FILMKRANT \| Rotterdam Film Festival - Ammodo Tiger Shorts Preview by Ronald Rovers (Dutch)	10.01.2018
ART ASIA PACIFIC \| 2017 Almanac - Kuwait review by HG Masters	01.12.2018
DE VOLKSKRANT \| Amsterdam Art Weekend (Dutch)	24.11.2017
HET PAROOL \| Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)	23.11.2017
DAILY SABAH \| Rijksakademie invaded by UFOs, time machines, and plague rats by Cihad Kaner	28.11.2017
TUBE LIGHT \| Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)	24.11.2017
ART ASIA PACIFIC \| Videobrasil review by HG Masters	03.11.2017
ARTFORUM \| Critic's Picks London by Philomena Epps	13.07.2017
THE QUIETUS \| Remembering the Future interview by Robert Barry	22.07.2017
FRIEZE \| Critic's Guide London - Best of Summer Shows by Orit Gat	18.07.2017
MAP MAGAZINE \| The Craft review by Rebecca Bligh	01.08.2017
TREBUCHET MAGAZINE \| The Craft review by Michaela Bear	30.08.2017
KHALEEJESQUE \| Interview by Reham Al-Awadhi	01.06.2017
DEUTSCHLAND KULTUR \| Feeling Dubbing radio interview	25.05.2017
TOUTE LA CULTURE \| The Voices of Monira Al Qadiri by Amelie Blausteim Niddam	10.05.2017
SCHIRN MAG \| Double Feature review	29.05.2017
SLEEK MAGAZINE \| Monira Al Qadiri is the Artist Using Humor to Unpick Islamic Societies by Will Furtado	03.01.2017
MIZNA \| Environment Issue - cover and feature	17.02.2016
THISISTOMORROW \| Bubble review by Anais Castor	21.04.2017
BERLIN COMMUNITY RADIO \| Interview and performance	24.03.2017
ARTNET \| Meet 3 Cutting Edge Artists Pushing the Boundaries at Art Dubai by Brian Boucher	17.03.2017
ARAB NEWS \| Kuwaiti Artist Draws Analogy Between Oil and Pearls by Lulwah Shalhoub	10.02.2017
AL-ARABIYA \| Five Gulf Female Artists' Exhibitions - video and article (Arabic)	06.02.2017
DE TELEGRAAF \| Self-portrait between Pearls and Petroleum by Paola van de Velde	16.01.2017
ARTFORUM \| Melting the Sky review by Murtaza Vali	01.01.2017
ARTLEAD \| Six artists to see at the Rijksakademie Open this year by Thomas Caron	25.11.2016
GULF NEWS \| Redesigning Man-Made Borders by Jyoti Kalsi	12.10.2016
NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE \| Flora Powers by Alexander Coggin	06.02.2016
ARTFORUM \| Critic's Picks by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie	01.08.2016
SURSOCK MUSEUM \| Interview (Arabic)	05.10.2016
IBRAAZ \| Feeling Dubbing essay by Monira Al Qadiri	30.03.2016
BBC ARABIC \| Alternative Cinema Interview (Video - Arabic)	2016
ALEF MAGAZINE \| Shooting into Auteur Space by Jessica Holland	2016
THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE \| Fresh Hell edited by Sophia Al-Maria	2015
DAZED DIGITAL \| The Paralytic Drug That's Killing Our Future by Karen Orton	08.12.2015
AQNB & VIDEO IN COMMON \| Portraits of the End of the World Video interview - Part 1	31.05.2015
AQNB & VIDEO IN COMMON \| Portraits of the End of the World Video interview - Part 2	07.04.2015
TOKYO ART BEAT \| The Tragedy of Self video interview (Japanese)	20.02.2010

Selected Press

Kunstkompass \| The Art Stars of Tomorrow - Number 4 Monira Al Qadiri (German)	27.11.2023
Monopol Magazine \| Top 100 Most Important Figures in the Art World (German)	20.11.2023
K-Art Now \| The World's Most Influential Contemporary Artists Ranked by Germany's Kunstkompass	20.11.2023
The Art Newspaper China \| Where Pearls, Oil and the Sea Meet, A Doomsday Prophecy Emerges in Haunted Water (Chinese)	17.08.2023
Ocula \| Best Institutional Exhibitions in 2023: In Photos	27.07.2023
E-Flux \| Monira Al Qadiri: Mutant Passages exhibition announcement	27.04.2023
ORF \| Monira Al Qadiri's exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz (Video - German)	20.04.2023
Art Papers \| Refined Vision review by Park Myers & winter issue cover	01.02.2023
BerlinArtLink \| Studio Visit with Monira Al Qadiri by Dagmara Genda	09.08.2022
Monopol Magazine \| Artist Al Qadiri Receives the Fellbach Triennale Prize (German)	08.08.2022
The White Review \| No. 33 Interview and cover	30.07.2022
Artnet \| Biennial Stars: Meet the 17 Artists who Have Defined Our Current Era of International Art Shows	09.06.2022
ARTE \| Arte Twist: Venice Biennale 2022 interview (Video, German)	20.05.2022
Museo Guggenheim Bilbao \| Discover Monira Al Qadiri (Video, Spanish)	01.04.2022
Art Asia Pacific \| The Artists of 2021: Monira Al Qadiri by Nicole M. Nepomuceno	01.01.2022
Various Artists \| Globules of Mutated Dissonance by Monira Al Qadiri	08.11.2021
Art Asia Pacific \| One on One - Monira Al Qadiri on Yukio Mishima	01.11.2021
OCULA \| Monira Al Qadiri Dives Deep into Oil interview by Amin Alsaden	03.03.2021
KALEIDOSCOPE \| Dark Genesis interview by Myriam ben Salah	Fall /Winter 2020
HAUS DER KUNST \| Meet the Artist: Monira Al Qadiri	12.06.2020
FRIEZE \| Monira Al Qadiri's Desert Mythology by Hanno Hauenstein	20.03.2020
ARTSY \| The Artsy Vanguard 2019: 50 Artists to Know Right Now	16.12.2019
APOLLO MAGAZINE \| 40‌ Under 40 Middle East	15.12.2019
FRIEZE \| Portfolio – Monira Al Qadiri	07.08.2017
FREUNDE VON FREUNDEN \| Cartoons & the Body as Art by Siobhan Leddy	27.07.2017
TEXTE ZUR KUNST \| The Craft by Ella Plevin	09.2017
BIDOUN \| Sweet Talk: A Conversation with Thuraya Al-Baqsami and Monira Al Qadiri edited by Michael Vazquez	01.03.2018
THE NATIONAL \| A tropical-island, dream-land purgatory place by Melissa Gronlund	17.11.2018
PANTA MAGAZINE \| Oil and Art by Roxanne Goldberg	01.0802017
ARTFORUM \| Openings by Stephanie Bailey	01.05.2015
RASEEF22 \| Being Monira Al Qadiri by Christine Abi Azar (Arabic)	18.06.2016
LIVING CONTENT \| Interview by Brian Paul	30.11.2018

All Press

The Art Newspaper \| As Cop 28 opens in Dubai, museums grapple with net zero by Joe Ware	29.11.2023
The Art Newspaper China \| Whose Ecology? Historical reflections, local narratives, and future declarations of the Mori Art Museum's 20th anniversary exhibition (Chinese)	20.11.2023
About Her \| Kuwaiti Artist Monira Al Qadiri Creates Fantastic Imaginings of the Petrochemical Industry	15.11.2023
Art Asia Pacific \| 24th Biennale of Sydney Announces Lineup	31.10.2023
Crash Magazine \| Rencontres Internationales by Martina Conte	30.10.2023
Artnet \| 5 Exhibitions Not to Miss While Visiting Art Week Tokyo by Vivienne Chow	26.10.2023
Ocula \| 5 Must-See Exhibitions During Art Week Tokyo by Shanyu Zhong	25.10.2023
Numero \| Asia Now: Works not to be missed, between wool tentacles and drill heads by Camille Bois-Martin (French)	20.10.2023
Art Africa \| Dream City 2023: A festival at the heart of reality by Suzette Bell-Roberts	23.10.2023
Business Insider \| Our Ecology at Mori Art Museum by Atsuko Arahata (Japanese)	20.10.2023
Tokyo Art Beat \| Our Ecology at Mori Art Museum (Japanese)	20.10.2023
Bijutsu Techo \| How do artists react to the environment? Our Ecology exhibition at Mori Art Museum (Japanese)	18.10.2023
EFE \| Tokyo's Mori Art Museum explores link between art and ecology in exhibition	17.10.2023
Kunst und Film \| Plastic World by Wibke Weishaupt (German)	18.09.2023
K-Art Now \| Monira Al Qadiri Solo Show "Haunted Water" at UCCA Dune: Oil and Pearl in the Gulf	15.09.2023
Sculpture Network \| Pearly Oil: Monira Al Qadiri's Art on Petro-Culture by Sietske Roorda	14.09.2023
Suddeutsche Zeitung \| So Colorful and Crumbling by Till Briegleb (German)	21.08.2023
Artillery \| Strong Winds Ahead by Alex Garner	03.08.2023
NOWNESS \| Doomsday Fantasy from Kuwait by Lu Ran (Chinese)	12.07.2023
GQ Middle East \| Monira Al Qadiri's "Holy Quarter" on show at Art Basel 2023 by Cat Woods	17.06.2023
Artline \| Ambivalently Shimmering Surfaces by Julia Metzdorf (German)	26.06.2023
PARNASS \| Monira Al Qadiri - Trapped by an Alien by Edith Schlocker (German)	16.06.2023
Whitewall \| Al Qadiri, Doris Salcedo and More Art Basel 2023 Shows by Erica Silverman	13.06.2023
The Collectors Agenda \| Monira Al Qadiri in the Studio (interview)	10.06.2023
Asian Art Newspaper \| Monira Al Qadiri Interview by Olivia Sand	06.06.2023
Numéro \| Between Fascination and Repulsion: Five Artists Questioning our Relationship to Technology and Progress by Camille Bois-Martin (French)	02.06.2023
Kunstund.net \| Monira Al Qadiri "I Call Myself a Post-Oil Baby" by Hildegund Amanshauser (German)	31.05.2023
Monopol Magazin \| Where to this Weekend? (German)	26.05.2023
Stuttgarter Zeitung \| The stuff that we're addicted to by Adrienne Braun (German)	25.05.2023
Salzburger Nachrichten \| Like the Flowers of Evil by Sibylle Fritsch	25.05.2023
Badische Zeitung \| Deceptively Glittering Seduction by Hans-Dieter Fronz (German)	19.05.2023
Kronen Zeitung \| The Colorful Reign of Molecules and Aliens by Thomas Gabler (German)	16.05.2023
Schwaebische Zeitung \| Monira Al Qadiri and Oil in Kunsthaus Bregenz by Antje Merke (German)	05.05.2023
MeinBezirk.at \| Monira Al Qadiri's Art is Banging, Cheering and Awakening by Isabelle Cerha (German)	04.05.2023
Kunstforum \| Monira Al Qadiri in Kunsthaus Bregenz (German)	02.05.2023
Vernissage TV \| Monira Al Qadiri - Mutant Passages / Kunsthaus Bregenz (video)	30.04.2023
Der Standard \| Monira Al Qadiri Opens an Oil Field in Kunsthaus Bregenz by Ivona Jelcic (German)	30.04.2023
Allgäuer Zeitung \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri Stages the Beauty of Horror by Klaus-Peter Mayer (German)	25.04.2023
Luzerne Zeitung \| Oil is Everywhere by Kristin Schmidt (German)	24.04.2023
BR24 \| Oil and Seashells: Monira Al Qadiri in Kunsthaus Bregenz (German)	23.04.2022
Art Salon \| The Oil, The Extraterrestrial	22.04.2023
Deutschlandfunk Kultur \| Bodies and Car Paint (Radio - German)	22.04.2023
VOL.AT \| The Glittering Seduction of Wealth by Sieglinde Wöhrer (German)	20.04.2023
APA \| Monira Al Qadiri "Mutant Passages" in KUB (German)	20.04.2023
E-Flux \| Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present by Ben Eastham	21.02.2023
Ocula \| Art World Predictions for the Year of the Rabbit by Sam Gaskin	27.01.2023
Art Agenda \| Monira Al Qadiri's "Refined Vision" by Valentin Diaconov	27.10.2022
Middle East Eye \| Jurassic World: Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri on oil, war, and Japanese manga by Yvonne Singh	19.10.2022
Stuttgarter Zeitung \| Fellbach Triennale resonates with audiences by Frank Rodenhausen (German)	03.10.2022
e-Flux \| Refined Vision announcement	25.09.2022
The National \| Monira Al Qadiri Explores our Reliance on Fossil Fuels by Maan Jalal	20.08.2022
Vogue \| Inside Selfridge's Super Futures Exhibition in London by Michael Philouze	15.08.2022
Wallpaper \| Qatar Transforms into a Museum of Public Art Ahead of 2022 Fifa World Cup by Harriet Lloyd-Smith	10.08.2022
The Art Newspaper \| Koons, Kusama, KAWS: Qatar Installs 40 More Sculptures in Time for the FIFA World Cup by Lee Cheshire	09.08.2022
Zeit Online \| Al Qadiri from Kuwait Receives the Fellbach Triennale Prize (German)	08.08.2022
Vernissage TV \| Monira Al Qadiri - Venice Biennale 2022 (video)	29.08.2022
I-D \| Inside the London Exhibition Dreaming Up Bold New Futures by Mahoro Seward	26.07.2022
The Business of Fashion \| Selfridges Partners with Berlin's Reference Festival for In-store Exhibition by Tamison O'Connor	01.07.2022
Ara \| The Invisible Revolution by Lurdes Vidal (Catalan)	24.06.2022
Artnet \| Here are the 150 Artists That Curators Hand-picked for The Carnegie International by Taylor Dafoe	22.06.2022
Magpie \| A Future for Dubai Expo 2020	22.06.2022
TROUW \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri hopes that in the future no one would know what drill heads are by Joke de Wolf (Dutch)	07.06.2022
STIR World \| Stirring Dreams: Multi Media Artist Monira Al Qadiri Presents at the Venice Art Biennale by Sukanya Deb	05.06.2022
Artforum \| Experiences of Oil - Stavanger Kunstmuseum review by Adam Kleinman	01.06.2022
My Art Guides \| The Big Return: The Biennale Arte Opens in Venice with a host of Collateral Events and Exhibitions Across the City	20.05.2022
Berlin Art Link \| More Space for Fantasy - Pics from the 59th Venice Biennale of Art by Anna Russ	10.05.2022
KÜNSTLERINNENPREIS \| Laughter through Disaster, or How the Joke Speaks Back Strangely by Nat Muller	04.05.2022
The Paris Review \| Venice Dispatch: from the Biennale by Olivia Kan-Sperling	29.04.2022
The National \| Venice Biennale 2022's 'The Milk of Dreams' - in pictures	27.04.2022
Hyperallergic \| Captivating Highlights from the 2022 Venice Biennale by Laura Raicovich	26.04.2022
KUNA \| Kuwaiti Artist Participates in Venice Biennale with Three Sculptures (Arabic)	25.04.2022
Exibart \| First Impressions of the Venice Biennale (Spanish)	22.04.2022
DW \| How the Venice Biennale Reacts to the Ukraine War (German)	22.04.2022
Quotidiano Nazionale \| Venice Biennale 2022: The First Shots of the Works on Display (Italian)	21.04.2022
Contemporary Art Stavanger \| In Petrochemical Arms by Susanne Christensen (Danish)	13.04.2022
Spike Art Magazine \| A Drowned World (This is How it Ends) Portrait: Monira Al Qadiri and Raed Yassin by Laura Cugusi	06.04.2022
Bizkaia! \| Monira Al Qadiri Holy Quarter Bilbao (Basque)	11.03.2022
Noticias De Navarra \| A Reflection on Oil and Climate Change arrives at the Guggenheim Museum (Spanish)	11.03.2022
Deia \| Monira Al Qadiri reflects on Climate Change at the Guggenheim (Spanish)	10.03.2022
Martin Cid Magazine \| Hayward Gallery announces new outdoor commissions by Anthea Hamilton, Jyll Bradley and Monira Al Qadiri	03.03.2022
Architectural Digest \| Take an Art Tour Of Expo 2020 Dubai	28.02.2022
The Japan Times \| Theater Commons Tokyo Rethinks the 'Voices' of Performing Arts in the Covid Era by Andrew and Mika Eglinton	20.02.2022
Orient XXI \| When the End of the Oil Era Comes to Dubai Expo by Amelie Mouton	12.02.2022
Ocula \| Venice Biennale 2022 to Reframe Art History as a Story of 'Symbiosis, Solidarity and Sisterhood' by Sam Gaskin	04.02.2022
Recto Verso \| A Voyage on the North Sea. Experiences of Oil at Stavanger Art Museum by Peter Vermeulen	21.01.2022
Selections Magazine \| A Celebration of Public Art in Expo 2020 Dubai	05.01.2022
The National \| Six Must-See Artworks at the Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale by Alexandra Chaves	22.12.2021
Wall Street International \| Experiences of Oil review	21.12.2021
Nafas Art Magazine \| Interview with Monira Al Qadiri by Pat Binder and Gerhard Haupt	17.12.2021
Art of the Working Class \| Do You Believe in Life After Oil? by Ben Livne Weitzman	08.12.2022
Forbes \| New Exhibition Questions Norway's Trillion Dollar Oil Industry by Joanne Shurvell	01.12.2021
Axis Mag \| Performances, music and film inside a space-ship like atmosphere by Saki Hibino (Japanese)	15.11.2021
Flee Project \| Nahma: A Gulf Polyphony	12.11.2021
Ocula \| 8th Asian Art Biennale Looks Back to Look Forward by Esther Lu	10.11.2021
Architectural Digest \| Take An Art Tour of Expo 2020 Dubai by Benedetta Ghione	29.10.2021
Lampoon Magazine \| Monira Al Qadiri: The Human Being is a Tragic Subject Both on a Geospatial and Spiritual Scale by Giulia Ottavia Frattini	22.10.2021
The National \| Expo 2020's Public Art Program: The Best Works to See by Melissa Gronlund	11.10.2021
RBB Kultur \| Collaborators Monira Al Qadiri and Raed Yassin at ICC (Video interview - German)	09.10.2021
Berlin Art Link \| Berliner Festspiele Activates Retro-Futuristic ICC Building by Alice Connolly O'Brien	05.10.2021
CNN Arabic \| What's the secret of this Alien-like Sculpture at Dubai Expo? (Video interview - Arabic)	04.10.2021
Universe in Universe \| Expo 2020 Public Art Programme	03.10.2021
Artforum \| Saudi Arabia's First Biennial Announces Participating Artists	24.09.2021
Bijutsu Techo \| Supporting Berlin's Club Culture through Art - a venture by "Studio Berlin" by Saki Hibino (Japanese)	20.09.2021
France 24 \| Monira Al Qadiri's Visual Project: a Dark View Filled with Color TV interview by Lina Saleh (Arabic)	08.09.2021
Berliner Zeitung \| The Oil and Aliens of Monira Al Qadiri by Claire Koron	02.08.2021
DSCENE \| Artist Monira Al Qadiri Talks Art and Environment interview by Katarina Djoric	12.07.2021
The Art Newspaper \| Dubai's long-awaited Expo announces artist line-up by Nadine Khalil	06.07.2021
Vogue Arabia \| This Kuwaiti Artist's Sculpture is Dubai Expo's First Permanent Public Artwork by Apoorva Dudani	04.07.2021
The National \| What Monira Al Qadiri's otherwordly Expo 2020 Dubai Sculpture says about the UAE by Melissa Gronlund	04.07.2021
E-Flux \| Public Art program unveiled at Expo 2020 Dubai	04.07.2021
Art Review \| Gnarly Symbiosis: Can Art Help Us Understand Our Relationship to Nature? by Martin Herbert	09.06.2021
Gallery Talk.net \| Ruhr Ding Klima at Glesenkirchen, Herne, Recklinghausen & Haltern am See (German)	09.06.2021
Artmagazine.cc \| Sunrise \| Sunset: Cat pheromones, Octopods, and the Reconfigured role of Humans by Holiday Nadja Karrash (German)	21.03.2021
HAWA Magazine \| Towards a Certain Fall by Alexis Loisel-Montambaux (French)	09.01.2021
STIR World \| An Exhibition in Hamburg Explores Dehumanization in Europe by Jones John	02.01.2021
GRIOT Mag \| Monira Al Qadiri: About the End of Oil interview by Eric Otieno (Italian)	02.09.2020
KULT Italy \| Human Nature by Fausto Colombo (Italian)	11.09.2020
POLY MAGAZINE \| In the Deep End by Hervé Lévy (French)	12.07.2020
KUNSTHALLE BADEN-BADEN \| Kunsthalle Revisited online feature	08.07.2020
HAUS DER KUNST BLOG \| A Holy Quarter in a Bifurcated Country by Saud Al-Zaid	03.07.2020
ART SPECTACLE ASIA \| Our World is Burning at Palais de Tokyo by Xuan Mai Ardia	22.05.2020
DONAKURIER \| Transcendence and Bureaucracy by Joachim Goetz (German)	11.05.2020
QANTARA \| In Awe of the Cosmos by Claudia Mende	04.05.2020
PZ-NEWS \| Is Bathing a Sin? by Susanne Kupke (German)	11.03.2020
GALLERY TALK \| Encapsulated - Capsule 11 and 12 at Haus der Kunst by Quirin Brunnmeier (German)	31.01.2020
SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG \| The Glass Bead Game by Evelyn Vogel (German)	30.01.2020
GOSEE ART \| Poetry, Myth and the Fossil Fuel Industry	29.01.2020
PASSE-AVANT \| The Sublime Beauty of Destruction by Radia Soukni	24.11.2019
GÖTTINGER TAGEBLATT \| The Beauty of the Drilling Heads: Monira Al Qadiri's Empire Dye in the Old Town Hall by Tobias Christ (German)	09.20.2019
ARAMCO WORLD \| A Crude History by Beliz Tecirli	01.03.2019
ELEPHANT MAGAZINE \| The Seductive Allure of the Diner by Louise Benson	02.07.2019
ARTFORUM \| Crude by Douglas Coupland	01.05.2019
PW MAGAZINE \| Interview by Juliana Lindenhofer	26.05.2019
METROPOLIS M \| Phantom Beard review and interview by Ive Stevenheydens (Dutch)	23.05.2019
GALLERY TALK \| Phantom Beard review by Jette Büchsenschütz (German)	29.05.2019
KUNSTKRITIKK \| Homeric Escape by Martin Grennberger	25.02.2019
SCHIRN MAG \| Film highlights of the Berlinale 2019 (German)	22.02.2019
DER TAGESSPIEGEL \| When Cinema Meets Art by Friederike Horstmann (German)	10.02.2019
MADA MASR \| A History of Petro-Modernism in the Middle-East: Crude by Mai El Wakil	31.01.2019
METROPOLIS M \| Future Generation Art Prize: Taus Makhacheva, Monira Al Qadiri and Kasper Bosmans nominated	28.09.2019
DE GROENE AMSTERDAMMER I Pearls and Oil by Roos van der Lint (Dutch)	19.09.2018
ARTNET \| Meet the seven power players remaking the cultural landscape of the Middle-East by Arsalan Mohammad	12.04.2018
DI'VAN JOURNAL \| Tomorrow Girls: Sci-fi, Other Worlds and Geopolitics in Media Art from the Middle-East by Nat Muller	06.03.2018
ARTFORUM \| The Craft review by Sylwia Serafinowicz	01.011.2017
THE DAILY STAR \| Ode to the Extraterrestrial Modern by Jim Quilty	23.01.2018
DE FILMKRANT \| Rotterdam Film Festival - Ammodo Tiger Shorts Preview by Ronald Rovers (Dutch)	10.01.2018
ART ASIA PACIFIC \| 2017 Almanac - Kuwait review by HG Masters	01.12.2018
DE VOLKSKRANT \| Amsterdam Art Weekend (Dutch)	24.11.2017
HET PAROOL \| Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)	23.11.2017
DAILY SABAH \| Rijksakademie invaded by UFOs, time machines, and plague rats by Cihad Kaner	28.11.2017
TUBE LIGHT \| Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)	24.11.2017
ART ASIA PACIFIC \| Videobrasil review by HG Masters	03.11.2017
ARTFORUM \| Critic's Picks London by Philomena Epps	13.07.2017
THE QUIETUS \| Remembering the Future interview by Robert Barry	22.07.2017
FRIEZE \| Critic's Guide London - Best of Summer Shows by Orit Gat	18.07.2017
MAP MAGAZINE \| The Craft review by Rebecca Bligh	01.08.2017
TREBUCHET MAGAZINE \| The Craft review by Michaela Bear	30.08.2017
KHALEEJESQUE \| Interview by Reham Al-Awadhi	01.06.2017
DEUTSCHLAND KULTUR \| Feeling Dubbing radio interview	25.05.2017
TOUTE LA CULTURE \| The Voices of Monira Al Qadiri by Amelie Blausteim Niddam	10.05.2017
SCHIRN MAG \| Double Feature review	29.05.2017
SLEEK MAGAZINE \| Monira Al Qadiri is the Artist Using Humor to Unpick Islamic Societies by Will Furtado	03.01.2017
MIZNA \| Environment Issue - cover and feature	17.02.2016
THISISTOMORROW \| Bubble review by Anais Castor	21.04.2017
BERLIN COMMUNITY RADIO \| Interview and performance	24.03.2017
ARTNET \| Meet 3 Cutting Edge Artists Pushing the Boundaries at Art Dubai by Brian Boucher	17.03.2017
ARAB NEWS \| Kuwaiti Artist Draws Analogy Between Oil and Pearls by Lulwah Shalhoub	10.02.2017
AL-ARABIYA \| Five Gulf Female Artists' Exhibitions - video and article (Arabic)	06.02.2017
DE TELEGRAAF \| Self-portrait between Pearls and Petroleum by Paola van de Velde	16.01.2017
ARTFORUM \| Melting the Sky review by Murtaza Vali	01.01.2017
ARTLEAD \| Six artists to see at the Rijksakademie Open this year by Thomas Caron	25.11.2016
GULF NEWS \| Redesigning Man-Made Borders by Jyoti Kalsi	12.10.2016
NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE \| Flora Powers by Alexander Coggin	06.02.2016
ARTFORUM \| Critic's Picks by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie	01.08.2016
SURSOCK MUSEUM \| Interview (Arabic)	05.10.2016
IBRAAZ \| Feeling Dubbing essay by Monira Al Qadiri	30.03.2016
BBC ARABIC \| Alternative Cinema Interview (Video - Arabic)	2016
ALEF MAGAZINE \| Shooting into Auteur Space by Jessica Holland	2016
THE HAPPY HYPOCRITE \| Fresh Hell edited by Sophia Al-Maria	2015
DAZED DIGITAL \| The Paralytic Drug That's Killing Our Future by Karen Orton	08.12.2015
AQNB & VIDEO IN COMMON \| Portraits of the End of the World Video interview - Part 1	31.05.2015
AQNB & VIDEO IN COMMON \| Portraits of the End of the World Video interview - Part 2	07.04.2015
TOKYO ART BEAT \| The Tragedy of Self video interview (Japanese)	20.02.2010