Gulf futurism

Name

• Gulf Futurism
• Gulf Futurisms

Artists and Creators

• GCC (Nanu Al-Hamad, Khalid Al Gharaballi, Abdullah Al-Mutairi, Fatima Al Qadiri, Monira Al Qadiri, Aziz Al Qatami, Barrak Alzaid, Amal Khalaf)
• Abdel Rahman Munif
• Sophia Al-Maria (QA-US)
• Fatima Al Qadiri (KW-DE-US)
• Monira Al Qadiri (KW-DE)

Curators, Writers & Theorists

• Bruce Sterling
• Rahel Aima
• Farah Abdessamad
• Shumon Basar
• Ahmed Elbenni
• Joan Grandjean
• Jörg Matthias Determann

Events

Exhibitions & Catalogues

• 

  ARABOFUTURS: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires, Institut du Monde Arabe, 2024

2024

• ARABOFUTURS: Science-fiction et nouveaux imaginaires, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, April 23-October 27 2024. Works by Sophia Al-Maria, Fatima Al Qadiri, Meriem Bennani, Sara Sadik, Skyseeef, Ayham Jabr, Mounir Ayache, Gaby Sahhar, Neïla Czermak Ichti, Tarek Lakhrissi, Ayman Zedani, Larissa Sansour, Søren Lind​, Aïcha Snoussi, Hicham Berrada, Zahrah Al Ghamdi. Curated by Élodie Bouffard and Nawel Dehina.

Discussions

• "Gulf Futurism", VCU Qatar School of Arts, Doha, Jan 19 2023. Speakers: Joan Grandjean, Jörg Matthias Determann.

Publications

Essays, Articles, Book Chapters

• Bruce Sterling, "Gulf Futurism", Wired, Nov 2012.
• Bruce Sterling, "Some Cogent Examples of Gulf Futurism", Wired, Nov 2012.
• Sophia Al-Maria, Fatima Al Qadiri, "Al-Maria and Al Qadiri on Gulf Futurism", Dazed Digital, Nov 14 2012.
• Scott Smith, “Ethnic Futurism In The Gulf,” The Sigers, July 13, 2013.
• Christopher Y. Lew, GCC, “The Aesthetics of Nation Building”, Interview with GCC, DIS Magazine, 2014.
• Nathalie Olah, Leala Doherty, "Gulf Futurism is Killing People", Vice.com, May 15 2014.
• Nicolas Nova, “Futures? An Interview with Sophia Al-Maria”, Pasta and Vinegar Blog, archived on NicolasNova.net, Oct 26, 2014.
• Kai (Kari) Altmann, Ruth Saxelby, "Dallas to Dammam Direct: Kari Altmann On Gulf Futurism’s U.S. Outpost", The Fader, Nov 19, 2014.
• Rahel Aima, “Museum of Future Government”, ArteEast, 2015.
• Vit Van Camp, "Gulf Futurism / Technocracy", DiffractionsCollective.org, May 18 2018.

• Erika Balsom, "Sophia Al-Maria on Dystopias, Gulf Futurism, and Sad Sacks", Art in America, Apr 7 2020.

• Rahel Aima, "Horizons: The Khaleeji Ideology", e-flux Architecture and the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Oct 2022.

• Katia Yezli, "Le Gulf Futurism, préfiguration d'un monde à venir", Le Quotidien De L'Art, September 05 2024. (French)

• Ahmed Elbenni, "Who Believes in Gulf Futurism?", E-International Relations, April 29 2025.

See Also

Arab Futurism, SWANA Futurism, North Africa Futurism, Afrofuturism, Deserttropism, Sinofuturism, South Asian Futurism, Global South Futurisms, Indofuturism, Desifuturism