MONIRA AL QADIRI
SILOED BEINGS

KÖNIG MUNICH
8 MAY – 30 JUNE 2024

OPENING
7 MAY 2024 | 6 – 9 PM
ARTIST TALK AT 6.30 PM

KÖNIG GALERIE is pleased to announce the opening of KÖNIG BERGSON on May 7, 2024. The Munich branch will be the fifth location within the KÖNIG network, and the third gallery in Germany. In Munich, solo and group exhibitions by KÖNIG GALERIE artists, as well as artists from outside the gallery program, will be presented.


Monira Al Qadiri solo exhibition FLOATING WORLD at ICD Brookfield Place, Dubai
Image by Seeing Things © Courtesy of the artist

KÖNIG BERGSON is pleased to announce Monira Al Qadiri’s solo show SILOED BEINGS, which will inaugurate the new gallery space in the silos of the former powerplant. Al Qaidiri’s show will include new glass, aluminum, and light pieces, as well as some of her signature 3D-printed works, in which she appropriates the shape of drill heads used in the petrol industry, transforming them into fantastical objects drilling into the sky. Furthermore, her exhibition will be complemented by a monumental outdoor sculpture and a large-scale installation of inflatable artworks in the 25m high atrium of the historic building.

FEATURED ARTIST

MONIRA AL QADIRI
Monira Al Qadiri (b. 1983) is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. Spanning sculpture, installation, film, and performance, Al Qadiri’s multifaceted practice is based on research into the cultural histories of the Gulf region. Her interpretation of the Gulf’s so-called “petro-culture” is manifested through speculative scenarios that take inspiration from science fiction, autobiography, traditional practices, and pop culture, resulting in uncanny and covertly subversive works that destabilize mythologies of statecraft and modernization as well as traditional notions of gender. Tracing the delicate ecologies threate...
Read more