Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983, Dakar, Senegal) lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Monira Al Qadiri is a visual artist whose work explores unconventional gender identities, petrocultures and their possible futures, as well as legacies of corruption. Spanning sculpture, installation, film and performance, her multifaceted practice is mainly based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region and manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works. Al Qadiri received a PhD in intermedia art from Tokyo University of the Arts (2010) and has been the subject of solo exhibitions at numerous international institutions, such as BOZAR, Brussels, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, US (both 2024); De Balie, Amsterdam, UCCA Dune, Beijing and Kunstaus Bregenz (all 2023); Guggenheim Bilbao (2022); Hans der Kunst, Munich (2020); the Sursock Museum, Beirut and Gasworks, London (both 2017). She has participated in many biennials such as Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023) and 16 (2025); 24th Biennial of Sydney (2024): 59th Venice Biennale, the 1st Diriyah Contemporary Biennale and 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh (all 2022), and the Asian Art Biennale, Taiwan (2021). Her videos and short films have been screened at MoMA, New York (2018); Rotterdam Film Festival (2018); Kunsthalle Schirn (2017), Le Centre Pompidou (2016) and Berlin International Film Festival (2014).