MONIRA
AL QADIRI
Press
Links
Artsy | "The Artsy Vanguard 2019: 50 Artists to Know Right Now" feature
Apollo Magazine | "40 Under 40 Middle East" feature
Elephant Magazine | "The Seductive Allure of the Diner" by Louise Benson
Artforum | "Crude" review by Douglas Coupland
PW Magazine | Interview by Juliana Lindenhofer
Metropolis M | "Phantom Beard" review & Interview by Ive Stevenheydens (Dutch)
Gallery Talk | "Phantom Beard" review by Jette Büchsenschütz (German)
Kunstkritikk | "Homeric Escape" by Martin Grennberger
Schirn Mag | Film highlights of the Berlinale 2019 (German)
Der Tagesspiegel | "When Cinema Meets Art" by Friederike Horstmann (German)
Living Content | Interview by Brian Paul
Mada Masr | "A history of petro-modernism in the Middle-East: Crude" by Mai El Wakil
De Groene Amsterdammer | "Pearls and Oil" by Roos van der Lint (Dutch)
Bidoun | "Sweet Talk: A conversation with Thuraya Al-Baqsami and Monira Al Qadiri"
Magpie | "Monira Al Qadiri commissioned for Abu Dhabi Art Fair"
Artforum | "The Craft" review by Sylwia Serafinowicz - November 2017 print issue
The Daily Star | "Ode to the Extraterrestrial Modern" by Jim Quilty
De FilmKrant | Rotterdam Film Festival - Ammodo Tiger Shorts preview by Ronald Rovers (Dutch)
Art Asia Pacific | 2017 Almanac - Kuwait review by HG Masters
DeVolkskrant | Amsterdam Art Weekend (Dutch)
Het Parool | Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)
Daily Sabah | "Rijksakademie invaded by UFOs, time machines, plague rats" - by Cihad Kaner
TubeLight | Rijksakademie Open review (Dutch)
Texte Zur Kunst | "The Craft" review by Ella Plevin
Art Asia Pacific | Videobrasil review by HG Masters
Frieze | Portfolio - Monira Al Qadiri
Artforum | Critic's picks London - by Philomena Epps
The Quietus | Remembering the Future - interview by Robert Barry
Frieze | Critic's Guide London - best of summer shows by Orit Gat
Map Magazine | "The Craft" review by Rebecca Bligh
Trebuchet Magazine | "The Craft" review by Michaela Bear
Khaleejesque | Interview by Reham Al-Awadhi
Deutschlandfunk Kultur | "Feeling Dubbing" Radio Interview (German)
Freunde Von Freunden | "Cartoons & the Body as Art" photo & article feature by Siobhan Leddy
Toute La Culture | "The Voices of Monira Al Qadiri at the KunstenFestival" (French)
Panta Magazine | "Oil and Art" feature by Roxanne Goldberg - issue 11 print issue
Schirn Mag | Double Feature - review
Mizna | Environment issue - cover and feature
Thisistomorrow | "Bubble" exhibition review by Anais Castro
Berlin Community Radio | Interview & performance (audio)
Artnet News | Meet 3 Cutting Edge Artists Pushing the Boundaries at Art Dubai
Arab News | Kuwaiti Artist Draws Analogy Between Oil and Pearls
Al Arabiya | Five Gulf Female Artists' Exhibitions (Video - Arabic)
De Telegraaf | Self-portrait between Pearls & Petroleum (Dutch)
ArtForum | "Melting the Sky" exhibition review by Murtaza Vali - January 2017 print issue
Art Lead | Six artists to see at the Rijksakademie Open this year
Gulf News | Redesigning Manmade Borders
New York Times Style Magazine | Flora Powers
ArtForum | Openings - May 2015 print issue
ArtForum | Critic's Picks - August 2016
Sursock Museum | Interview (Arabic)
Ibraaz | "Feeling Dubbing" Essay
Sleek Magazine |Spring 2016 print issue #49 - interview
Tribe Magazine |Issue #2 - "in Search of Lost Time" exhibition review
BBC Arabic | TV interview on Alternative Cinema program (Arabic)
Raseef 22 | Being Monira Al Qadiri (Arabic)
Alef Magazine | 5 page feature - print issue
Bespoke Magazine | "Like a Rebel" 6 page feature - print issue
The Happy Hypocrite | "Fresh Hell" print issue guest edited by Sophia Al Maria
Dazed Digital | "Fresh Hell - The Paralytic Drug that's Killing Our Future"
Spike Magazine | "The Belief That Art Can Make Something Happen in Warsaw"
AQNB & Video in Common | "Portraits of the End of the World" mini documentary (part 1)
AQNB & Video in Common | "Portraits of the End of the World" mini documentary (part 2)
Berlin Art Link | "Art & Feminism" Interview
Al-Monitor | "10 Middle-East Artists to Watch"
Ibraaz | "How Toshihiko Made Me Understand Islam" Essay & video
Ibraaz | "The Great Journey" a conversation with Lidia Al-Qattan
Ibraaz | "Accented" exhibition review
BBC Arabic | BBC Xtra program - on the comedy scene in the Gulf (Arabic / Video)
Purple Magazine | Travel - Dubai
AQNB | "Never Never Land" Review
Barakabits | "Enigmatic Futuristic Works of Art in the Center of Dubai"
The National | "Giant Drill Bit Among Works of Public Art Unveiled in Dubai"
FlashArt | "InVisible AFAC - Dubai"
Creative Time | "SOAP" Video project #2
Migrant Rights | "Putting the Migrants in the Picture" review
i-D Magazine | "Positive Realism with Kuwaiti Artist Monira Al Qadiri" profile
Ibraaz | "Flash Futures" Interview
Ibraaz | "Myth Busters" Project
Jadaliyya & Medrar TV | Video Interview - Arabic with English subtitles
Reorient | "Murals Morals Muhawwils" article & video
Arab Fund for Arts & Culture (AFAC) | "Muhawwil" (Transformer) project - Grantee Story
Bant Mag | Interview (English)
Bant Mag | Interview (Turkish)
Mada Masr | "Humor and the Aesthetics of Sadness" - Profile
Baraka Bits | "The Woman of 1000 Faces"
Creative Time | "Rumors of Affluence" video project #1
ArteEast | "Tracing Art Histories"
Tokyo Art Beat | Video Interview - Japanese
Tokyo Art Beat | Video Interview - English subtitles
Mumora | "Monira Al Qadiri & Art in the UAE"
Daily Star | "The Body as Political Commentary" review
Daily Star | "Exposure 2013" review
Now Lebanon | "Exposure 2013" review
Gulf News | "Plucking the Many Strands of Identity" review
Time Out Dubai | "An Art Show About Body Hair in Dubai" review
Beirut.com | "Behind Lebanon's Closed Doors" Homeworks 6/ Ex-Apartments project review
Culture & Gender | "For Soothing Simultaneity of Different Realities" - German
Daily Star | "Dancing with a Lone Cow in the Field" review
RBB TV | Ex-Apartments review - German
Art Journal | "Precarious Symbolism: When the Political Sphere Overshadows Art History" review
New York Times Blog | "Aboveground Animation at the New Museum" preview
Greater Middle East Photo | "The Bearded Lady: Monira Al Qadiri" Profile
Al Jazeera Documentary | "Wa Waila" (Oh Torment) " review - Arabic
Goethe Institut Arab Shorts | Independent Film in the Gulf
Lowave | Human Frames - Melancholy DVD
Signs Journal | Visibility & Visuality
Now Lebanon | All the Other Lovers - program preview
Time Out Beirut | "Neo-Japonisme" lecture preview
DIS Magazine | Aboverground Animation
Jadaliyya | "Bodies Moving to Memory" review
Gulf Art Guide | "Trends in the Kuwaiti Art World"
Publications
Ethnofuturism | Edited by Armen Avanessian & Mahan Moalemi, Merve Verlag (German)
Future Imperfect | Contemporary art practices and cultural institutions in the Middle East (Sternberg Press)
Di'van Journal | "Tomorrow Girls: Sci-Fi, Other Worlds, and Geo-Politics in Media Art from the Middle-East" by Nat Muller
Artforum | "The Craft" review by Sylwia Serafinowicz - November 2017 print issue
Panta Magazine | "Oil and Art" feature by Roxanne Goldberg - issue 11 print issue
Khaleejesque | Interview by Reham Al-Awadhi
Mizna | Prose, Poetry and Art - cover and print feature
Sleek Magazine |Spring 2016 print issue #49 - interview
The Happy Hypocrite | "Fresh Hell" print issue
ArtForum | May 2015 print issue
Alef Magazine | 5 page feature - print issue
Bespoke Magazine | "Like a Rebel" 6 page feature - print issue
Baumtest Quarterly | "SOAP" 7 page feature - issue 5
Goethe Institut | Arab Shorts Book
"The Fertile Crescent: Gender, Art & Society" | Book