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Naima Morelli

Naima is an arts writer and journalist specialized in contemporary art from Asia-Pacific and the MENA region. She has written for the Financial Times, Al-Jazeera, The Art Newspaper, ArtAsiaPacific, Internazionale and Il Manifesto, among others, and she is a regular contributor to Plural Art Mag, Middle East Monitor and The New Arab as well as writing curatorial texts for galleries. She is the author of three books on Southeast Asian contemporary art.

A studio portrait shows a woman with long dark hair wearing a sleeveless denim top, sitting with her arms crossed and looking directly at the camera.

Meet the Collector: Yasmine Berrada Wants to Change the Way the World Sees Moroccan Art

By Naima Morelli
A visitor wearing a headscarf stands in a gallery space with bright blue walls, looking at two large abstract paintings framed in light wood, one composed of organic pastel shapes and the other of interlocking geometric forms.

1-54 Marrakech Turned a Boutique Fair into a Citywide Moment

By Naima Morelli
People at an art fair with temporary walls installed in a large warehouse like space

S.E.A. Focus Gets a Boost from Art SG, But Questions About Identity Remain

By Naima Morelli
A richly patterned textile-style image shows a winged mythical creature with a horse’s body and a human female head, adorned with elaborate jewelry and a headdress, set against a densely decorated floral background framed by ornate borders.

Oslo Museums Face the Contradictions in Their Collections

By Naima Morelli
A glossy black glass sculpture shaped like a hemisphere sits on a pedestal, with two smaller matching dome forms beside it, reflecting light in a dimly lit gallery.

Nika Neelova On “UMBRA” and the Death of Linear Time

By Naima Morelli
A person with curly red hair, wearing a pinstriped suit and blue-tinted glasses, stands before wall-mounted sculptural garments made of layered, painted fabric and speaks to an unseen audience.

Contemporary Artists in the Baltics Fight Instability with Connection

By Naima Morelli
An exterior view of the Almaty Museum of Arts shows its angular limestone facade with rust-colored accents against a blue sky.

Could Almaty’s Contemporary Art Museum Mark a New Era for Kazakhstan?

By Naima Morelli
An art installation made up of stacked oranges formed into a set of curving walls

Emerging Art Scenes in Chios and Leros Offer a More Relaxed Definition of Art World Success

By Naima Morelli
An outdoor sculpture by Gunzi Holmström shows a mushroom-shaped form with a dome-like cap painted with orange geometric patterns and four curved tentacle-like legs, installed on a grassy clearing among trees at the 2025 Helsinki Biennial on Vallisaari Island.

The Slow Biennial: Helsinki’s Gentle Vision for Environmental Art

By Naima Morelli
A group of six people stands and crouches around a reflective tiled installation on the floor inside a white-walled gallery space, observing and discussing the work.

VIMA Art Fair and the Quiet Politics of a Nascent Regional Scene

By Naima Morelli
The World Falls to the Earth (2008), Rudi Mantofani. This work is featured in the inaugural exhibition at the Macan Museum in Jakarta on November 03, 2017. 03NOV17 [NOVEMBER2017 FEATURES] SCMP: Enid Tsui

Younger, Bolder and Determined to Grow: The Rise of the Indonesian Contemporary Art Market

By Naima Morelli
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