Monira Al Qadiri
Monira Al Qadiri (born in Dakar, Senegal, 1983) is a visual artist of Kuwaiti citizenship, who is currently based in Berlin. Her work employs various media, including video, sculptures, installation art and performances. She's had several solo exhibitions, which include the Blaffer Art Museum in Houston, Haus der Kunst in Munich, and Sursock Museum in Beirut. Her works have also been part of group exhibitions in internationally renowned museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Recurring themes in Al Qadiri's work are petrostates and gender identity. Biography Al Qadiri was born in Senegal, where her father was a diplomat. Her mother, Thuraya Al-Baqsami worked as an artist, and her older sister, Fatima Al Qadiri, would later become an artist and musician. In 1985, the family moved back to Kuwait, where they lived through the 1991 Gulf War. Al Qadiri moved to Japan at age 16, where she studied for ten years. In 2010, she obtained her PhD in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts, with a dissertation called 'The Aesthetics of Sadness in the Middle East'. Career In 2013 Al Qadiri founded the Gulf art collective GCC, together with