Lecture Performance: Monira Al Qadiri

Join Monira Al Qadiri for a lecture performance accompanying her current exhibition “Hero”. The show focuses on her long-standing exploration of the sociocultural, environmental, and political dimensions of the global oil industry.

Through a complex ensemble of sculpture, video, and painting, the artist examines how human activity has turned crude oil into an engine of prosperity, but also of exploitation, geopolitical interests, and structural dependencies—a raw material that is inextricably linked to demands for power, inequality, and colonial dynamics. At the centre of the exhibition is the oil tanker, which serves as an emblematic figure of our present. This floating behemoth represents a dying industry with a toxic legacy that continues to affect the oceans, the air, the earth, and ultimately our own bodies. The artist considers this monstrous vessel from an equally poetic and critical perspective—and reimagines it as the protagonist of a narrative about excess, power, and decay.

In English
Free entry
Exhibition open until 7 pm
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Location

Berlinische Galerie
Alte Jakobstraße 124–128
10969 Berlin

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Participation is free of admission.

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