Marrakech Biennale

21/12/2016

OPEN CALL // APPEL A PROJET
Artistes de Méditerranée

Bjcem is an international network who create opportunities for the young artists to produce and showcase their works.

04/11/2016

// NOW !
On vous attend place du 16 novembre !

Vendredi 04 novembre à partir de 17h00 @ Avenue Mohammed V en direction de la Place Jemaa el Fna. Une grande parade festive s'empare de l'avenue Mohammed V, le vendredi 4 novembre.Plus de 200 artistes acrobates, échassiers, musiciens, danseurs ET VOUS à vélos, à roulettes...

28/09/2016

Thank you Thought Leader Global!

06/06/2016

Well done Mouna Mekouar👏👏👍❤️

L’artiste berlinois et sa troupe de danseurs se mettent en « situation » au cœur de Marrakech.

29/05/2016

Marrakech Biennale 6, Participating Artists (Essay on E-flux)

Not New Now, the 6th edition of the Marrakech Biennale, taking place February 24 to May 8, 2016 in Marrakech, Morocco, is pleased to announce its participating artists.

Participating artists:
Talal Afifi, Haig Aivazian, El Anatsui, Tarek Atoui, Kader Attia, Dana Awartani, Yto Barrada, Isak Berbic, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Farid Belkahia, Ahmed Bouanani, Touda Bouanani, Mohamed Chebaa, Manthia Diawara, Melvin Edwards, Ali Essafi, Khalil El Ghrib, Sam Gilliam, David Hammons, Mohssin Harraki, Mona Hatoum, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, Saba Innab, Bouchra Khalili, Radhika Khimji, Rachid Koraichi, Al Loving, Khaled Malas, Djibril Diop Mambéty, Jumana Manna, Ahmed Mater, Megumi Matsubara, Mohammed Melehi, Naeem Mohaiemen, Mohamed Mourabiti, Radouan Mriziga, Oscar Murillo, Sara Ouhaddou, Juan Asis Palao, Khalil Rabah, SUPERFLEX, Rayyane Tabet, The Otolith Group, Eric Van Hove, Adrián Villar Rojas, Fatiha Zemmouri

The work of these leading international artists will comprise the central exhibition titled Not New Now. It focuses on artistic projects, research, and ideas that respond to socio-political urgencies, representative of “living art”—an art that is for people and society, whilst harnessing aesthetic forms and poetics.

Not New Now is curated by Reem Fadda and assistant curator Ilaria Conti. The central exhibition also includes curatorial interjections by Omar Berrada, who is curating Memory Games: Ahmed Bouanani Now, a multifarious engagement with the work and the archive of writer-filmmaker Ahmed Bouanani; and Salma Lahlou and Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa, who are curating a section on the avant-garde art movement, the Casablanca School.

The Biennale mainly spans across five historical locations in the medina of Marrakech: Koutoubia Mosque, Palais Badii, Palais Bahia, Dar Si Said, and Menara Pavilion. Simultaneously, a selection of Partner and Parallel Projects will be on view across the city.

About the Marrakech Biennale
Founded in 2004 to address social issues through the arts, the Marrakech Biennale is one of the leading biennials of Africa and the Arab world. For the first time, the 2016 Biennale presents its program free of charge, in an effort to welcome a wider public and reinforce the Biennale’s connection to Marrakech’s urban historical landscape. The Biennale is also on view for the first time over a prolonged period of 11 weeks, presenting each week a diverse program of events.

26/05/2016

Education Program
From Here On, A wonderful Project by Zona Dynamic for the Marrakech Biennale!

20/05/2016

Marrakech Créative Interiors Cluster, Partner project of the Marrakech Biennale, at the Emerging Business Factory!

18/05/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Video by Made in Marrakech, about the Marrakech Biennale Education Program!
Special thanks to everyone who helped making it happen, especially ALSA.

Le jeudi 21 avril 2016, dans le cadre de la Marrakech Biennale, les élèves de l'école Chahid Ben Abdallah (Tahanaout) ont participé à une sortie éducative so...

12/05/2016

C’est en plein centre de La Medina de Marrakech sur la place des Ferblantiers que se trouve la nouvelle fresque de Dourone.
www.dourone.com

MB6 Projet Partenaire - Street Art a développé pour la première fois un projet de Street art pendant la sixième édition de la biennale de Marrakech.

“Inside Out” traite de la lumière intérieure que l’on peut voir à travers le regard des personnes qui nous entoure.
Photos du grand photographe documentaire Ian Cox (www.wallkandy.net)

10/05/2016

Merci Médias24!

La MB6, qui a fermé ses portes ce 8 mai, a été un vrai succès en termes d’affluence et de rayonnement international. Son président demande cependant aux autorités d’être plus généreuses pour équilibrer ses comptes de fonctionnement.

09/05/2016

Education Program

More than 4000 students benifited from the Education Program of the 6th edition of the Marrakech Biennale!

CULTURE - Le rideau vient de tomber sur la 6e édition de la Biennale de Marrakech et l'heure est au bilan. Lancé pour la première fois cette année en marge de l'év&e

03/05/2016

Meanwhile in Rabat, JIDAR - Toiles de Rue is turning the blank walls into beautiful murals..

the Jidar Festival, organized by the Association Boulevard L’EAC and the National Museums Foundation

01/05/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Carnets de Voyage of the students from INBA in residency with the Marrakech Biennale.

The journey of each student is documented in diaries that will be soon transformed into an ebook, in a project curated by Aniko M.E Moehler.

It was a great experience thanks to involvement of many actors:
Thank you: Aniko M. E. Boehler Zona Dynamic, Mohmed Baala, , KE'CH Collective, VOICE Gallery, Pikala Bikes, Ra Di Martino...

Many thanks to the team of the Education Program of the Marrakech Biennale.

Many thanks to all the students who participated in this residency

30/04/2016

Work in progress to build an ephemical tower supervised by Oliver Grossetete and the wonderful volunteers and school groups! Still a lot to do and cannot wait to see the outcome at the end !

29/04/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Zona Dynamic is conducting workshops for the 2nd group of students in residency with the Marrakech Biennale.
The workshop is titled “FROM HERE ON - On Collective Creation And Motives” and is opening today at 6 pm at the KE'CH Collective.

Follow the link for more information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1025403037535066/

29/04/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Workshops conducted by Oliver Grossetete for students from public primary, secondary and highschools in Marrakech.

Everyone is getting ready to participate in the making of an ephemeral tower in front of Thearte Royal in Marrakech.
The public is also welcomed to participate in the project. Constructing the tower will start 10 am Saturday 29th.
IT WILL BE FUN

29/04/2016

NE MANQUEZ PAS LA CONFÉRENCE DU DR. RAMZI DALLOUL AUJOURD'HUI À 16H AU PALACE ES SAADI À MARRAKECH

Lebanese-Palestinian art patron Ramzi Dalloul has amassed what is probably the largest collection of modern and contemporary Arab art in private hands. Rebecca Anne Proctor visits Ramzi’s collection in Beirut and learns of his upcoming museum

28/04/2016

I Love My strange Kingdom by Mohmed Baala!

A portrait of Moroccan visual artist Mohamed BAALA exhibiting at Galerie 127 in Marrakesh ,

27/04/2016

Marrakech Biennale in Essaouira!
Reportage by Made !n Essaouira

Biennale de Marrakech à Essaouira. Mars 2016 Une production Made in Essaouira. En interview : Mohammed Zouzaf, Amine Kabbaj, Mahi Binebine, Najia Mehadji, An...

27/04/2016

La plus grande vente aux enchères d'art marocain contemporain aura lieu à Marrakech, Samedi 29 Avril, a 18h au Palace Essaadi..

CULTURE - Samedi 30 avril à 18h, la Compagnie marocaine des oeuvres et objets d'art (CMOOA) organise une vente aux enchères d'art contemporain marocain. 105 oeuvres de 66 artistes -- ce

26/04/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

After their participation in the Marrakech Biennale Education Program guided tours to visit exhibitions and monuments of Marrakech, Lycee Tarik Ben Ziad has been chosen to host the largest mural inside a school in Morocco! Director of the school requested to make the big concrete walls inside the school alive.

Montresso* made this possible in partnership with Jardin Rouge! Artists POES & JOBER incorporated students of the school to put a 386 square meters mural on the walls of the school, around many themes such as environment and education.

26/04/2016

L'Blasa, headquarters of the Marrakech Biennale, and the places holding the 6th edition's Parallel Projects..

Lblassa est une résidence qui date du protectorat français qui abrite, depuis 2014, les bureaux de la Biennale de Marrakech.

25/04/2016

Check this article by Nicola Gray for the Third Text

"‘Not New Now’ is a passionate plea for a shift in considerations of art now, and particularly in the geographical and cultural spaces outside of the still-dominant Euro-American mainstream. It questions formalisms at the same time as employing a political and social compass, and an acute aesthetically sensitised one. Most importantly, it creates conversations with histories that have so often been overlooked by the Eurocentric artworld. The artworks in Marrakech’s old palace rooms and its ruins are not pre-rehearsed, rehashed and repolished, ready for the international market and exhibition circuits. There are no empty gestures transplanted from a white cube somewhere else into an exotic, foreign location. The work on show is alive, active, engaged and conscious, both of its responsibilities and its audiences."

24/04/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

Students from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan in a workshop, filming with Ra Di Martino

20/04/2016

Education Program

Day 2 of the artistic residency of students from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan.

The students today are engaged in a collective workshop supervised by Aniko M. E. Boehler and Mohmed Baala, with Pikala Marrakech and the KE'CH Collective.

19/04/2016

EDUCATION PROGRAM

The second group of students from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan in a residency at the Marrakech Biennale, supervised by Aniko M. E. Boehler

Day 1 with Mohmed Baala: Workshops by Baala held at the KE'CH Collective, followed by a visit to gallery Galerie 127 to discover the works of Mohmed Baala, Marc Belli, Abdelwahab Meddeb & Jellel Gasteli.

16/04/2016

This evening with the Marrakech Biennale
Play: Sihr Lgharam (Performance in Arabic) at the KE'CH Swap2016 - Laboratoire De La Mondialité

12/04/2016

A wonderful article that touches upon the ideas of "Not New Now". Thanks Ocula!

Transculturalism is not a matter of free choice, it is a condition of global exchange that is materially and politically coercive, if also potentially libera...