Monira Al Qadiri

Foyer

For the large foyer wall, which is periodically assigned to artists for extended commissions, Berlin-based Kuwaiti artist Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983, Senegal) has been invited to create a major pictorial intervention. In her work, she addresses both the Gulf states’ dependence on oil and our global reliance on this resource, along with the devastating ecological and social consequences that follow. With a powerful visual language, Al Qadiri imagines speculative future scenarios and links them to a critical engagement with the environmental conditions that define our present.

Curated by Ines Goldbach