1-54 Marrakech Live Events, Art Forum & Music Highlights
Moroco Travel Blog and our team are pleased to present the Live Events, Art Forum & Music Highlights for 1-54 Marrakech Contemporary African Art Fair 2019. The 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair reflects the diversity of artists across the African continent and is symbolically named after Africa’s 54 countries. Its mission is to provide artists from Africa and the diaspora a solid platform to share their experiences and bridge the connection of what it means to be African.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019 – VIP Schedule
10:30 MACAAL press preview of Material Insanity and visit to the Al Maaden
10:30 MACAAL press preview of Material Insanity and visit to the Al Maaden
sculpture park
15:00 Afternoon in Medina: visit of Special Project LOS-RAK with Emeka Ogboh and
site-specific works by Mohamed El Baz and Mo Baala at DADA; visit of
Hybridizations at Banque Al-Maghreb presented by Comptoir Des Mines
Galerie; visit of Riad Yima with Hassan Hajjaj
22:00 DJ set at DADA with special project by Emeka Ogboh and site-specific works by Mohamed El Baz and Mo Baala (optional)
Friday, February 23rd, 2019
10:00 Visit of Fondation Farid Belkahia
11:30 Visit of Yasmina Alaoui’s studio
Thursday, February 21st,14:00 – 18:00
Public opening hours
Saturday February, 23rd 12:00 – 20:00
Sunday February 24th, 12:00 – 18:00
Exhibitions: Friday – Sunday
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
MEDINA
47 DAR EL BACHA
Deborah Benzaquen: Les inséparables
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
Opening on Friday 22 at 19:00
47 rue Dar El Bacha (next to Musée des Confluences)
www.galeriedarelbacha.com
Phone: +212 5 24 39 09 86 / +212 5 24 39 09 78
ART HOLDING MOROCCO
The Ephemeral Museum: Moroccan Modernities
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
Ex-Bank Al Maghrib, Jamaa el-Fna
Phone: +212 6 61 31 81 09
DADA
LOS-RAK,a site specific sound and video installation by Emeka Ogboh, and special commissions to Mohamed El Baz and Mo Baala
Wednesday February 20th– Sunday, February 24th, 11:00-18:00
Place Jemaa El-Fna
Phone: +212 6 61 45 15 19
DAR MOULAY ALI, MAISON DE LA FRANCE À MARRAKECH
Amine El Gotaibi: Perspective de Séduction
Saturday 23 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 18:00
Entrance: 40 Dhs full rate / 20 Dhs discounted rate, free for children under 12 & schools. The exhibition will be on view until 31 May
Rue Ibn Khaldoun, by Koutoubia mosque
Phone: +212 5 24 44 69 30
EL FENN
BORDERLAND, new series by Alia Ali
Deborah Benzaquen: Les héros
Vernissage: Friday 22 February, 18:00 to 20:00
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00-19:00. The exhibitions will be on view until 30 May
Derb Moulay Abdullah Ben Hezzian, 2
Phone: +212 5 24 44 12 10
GALERIE DAR EL BACHA
Kibari Habib: Released semi-figurist energies
Friday 22 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
Opening on Friday 22 at 19:00
ue Dar El Bacha (next to Musée des Confluences)
Phone: +212 5 24 39 09 86 / +212 5 24 39 09 78
galerie.darelbacha@gmail.com
LE 18
Le Brouillon: Syllogismes de la pudeur
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
18 Derb El Ferrane, Riad Laarouss
MAISON DENISE MASSON
Des témoins, with photographer Geneviève Michon and painter Philippe Deltour
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 18:00
Free entrance. The exhibition will be on view until 15 April
Maison Denise Masson, 49 Derb Zemrane, Quartier Bab Doukkala (between Dar el Bacha and mosque)
Phone: +212 524 385 050
PALAIS EL BADI
Maria Karim: Autoportraits, 2014-2019
An exhibition presented by ThinkArt
The exhibition will be on view until April
Wednesday 20 to Sunday 24 February, 9:00-17:00
Entrance: 10 Dhs for Moroccans; 70 Dhs for foreigners
Phone: +212 6 61 14 93 41
RIAD YIMA, BY HASSAN HAJJAJ
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 18:00
52 Derb Aarjane, Rahba Lkdima
Phone: +212 5 24 39 19 87
THE ORIENTALIST MUSEUM
Les Orientalistes peintres voyageurs, de Delacroix à Majorelle
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 9:00 – 19:00
Entrance: 50 dhs full rate; 40 dhs discounted rate; free for children under 12
Phone: +212 5 24 44 83 26
GUÉLIZ
BCK ART GALLERY – ANNEXE
Group Show: Keya, Caroline Faindt, Daifallah Noureddine, Mederic Turay
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
Rue Ibn Khaldoun, Esplanade Koutoubia
Phone: +212 5 24 44 93 31 / +212 6 71 99 49 55
COMPTOIR DES MINES GALERIE
African Poetries: Youness Atbane, Mustapha Akrim, Mohamed Arejdal, Hassan Bourkia, Larbi Cherkaoui, Simohammed Fettaka, Khalil Nemmaoui
Thursday February 21st– Sunday, February 24th,10:00 – 19:00
Corner rue de la Liberté and rue de Yougoslavie
www.comptoirdesminesgalerie.com
Phone: +212 6 88 14 60 74 / +212 6 63 01 01 91
DAVID BLOCH GALLERY
Group Show
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:30 – 13:30 and 15:30 – 19:30
8 bis rue des Vieux Marrakchis
Phone: +212 5 24 45 75 95
GALLERY 127
Carolle Bénitah: La chambre interdite
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 11:00 – 19:00
127 Avenue Mohammed V, 2nd Floor
Phone: +212 5 24 43 26 67 / +212 6 61 33 99 53
GALERIE NOIR SUR BLANC
Sharing
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 20:00
48 rue Yougoslavie, Adam Plaza, 1st floor
Phone: +212 6 61 33 56 08 / +212 6 61 44 06 24
GALERIE SINIYA28
The Essaouira Artists: Untouched Stories
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 13:30 and 14:30 – 19:30
The exhibition will be on view until 17 March
ue Tarik Ibn Ziad, 1st floor, Apt 4
Phone: +212 5 24 43 43 53 / +212 6 61 10 74 66
L’ATELIER 21 (HORS LES MURS)
Yamou: Deep Inside
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 10:00 – 19:00
Comptoir des Mines Galerie, Corner rue de la Liberté and rue de Yougoslavie
MACMA, MUSÉE D’ART ET DE CULTURE MARRAKECH
Un siècle de photographie au Maroc, de 1870 à 1970
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 9:00 – 19:00
Entrance 50 dhs full rate; 40 dhr discounted rate; free for children under 12
61 rue de Yougoslavie, Passage Ghandouri
Phone: +212 5 24 44 83 26
MATISSE ART GALLERY
Thursday 21 to Sunday 24 February, 9:30 – 13:00 and 15:00 – 19:00
61, rue de Yougoslavie, n°43 passage Ghandouri
Phone: +212 5 24 44 83 26
THE ROYAL THEATRE OF MARRAKECH
Lifting the veil: Bruce Clarke, Manel Ndoye, Jean David Nkot, Marc Padeu and Tarek Ben Yakhlef
Exhibition presented by the gallery Carole Kvasnevski and supported by Ryad Plus and The Royal Theater of Marrakech
Thursday 21 February to Sunday 24 February, 11:00 – 18:00
40 Boulevard Mohamed VI
www.galeriecarolekvasnevski.com
Phone: +33 6 50 58 94 96
Forum:
LET’S PLAY SOMETHING LET’S PLAY ANYTHING LET’S PLAY*
18:00 – 19:30
Ted Joans in Context: Notes and Thoughts on Filmmaking
A unique opportunity to engage with rarely shown films featuring Ted Joans. Following her extensive research on Ted Joans, art historian and curator KARIMA BOUDOU (1-54 FORUM Programme Curator) will introduce several films spanning the decade of the 1990s. What is the role of archives in generating discourse and understanding histories? What can we learn from the process of archiving film and the use of archived documentary films in contemporary cultural projects?
Location: ESAV
Language: French and English
Evening Music:
MORE MARRAKECH
Program
Contemporary African Art & afro beats in la Ville Rouge
A week-end of art, music & experiences alongside 1 – 54 Art Fair.
Friday, February 22nd, 2019
19:00 – 0:00
Cocktail and DJ set to celebrate Special Project LOS-RAK by Emeka Ogboh and site-specific commissions by Mohamed El Baz and Mo Baala at DADA
MEDINA | Place Jemaa el-Fna
23:30 – Late
MORE Party with Habibi Funk : Funky music of the arab world of the 1970s, POUVOIR MAGIQUE from Mawimbi : Mystical afro & electronic
HIVERNAGE | RASPOUTINE Marrakech
Saturday 23th of Feb
Forum
12:15 – 12:30
Introduction
KARIMA BOUDOU (1-54 FORUM Programme Curator) gives insights into this year’s 1-54 FORUMprogram. Location: La Mamounia
Language: French
12:30 – 13:30
Ted Joans, Surrealist Traveller
Ted Joans’ engagement with surrealism was often removed from the movement’s supposed bedrock of Paris, and closely involved with broader transatlantic dialogues of anti-colonialism and anti-racism. Grounding the forthcoming programme and drawing on current research, JOANNA PAWLIK (Lecturer at the University of Sussex) discusses Ted Joans’ relationship with surrealism, what it offered him as an artist and poet and how these could be used as a lens through which to place surrealism in contemporary discourse.
Location: La Mamounia
Language: English
19:00 – 20:00
The Films of Kara Walker: Between Narration and Performance
VANINA GÉRÉ (Professor at Villa Arson National School of Fine Arts, Nice) will discuss Walker’s relationship to Afro-surrealism. With an Afro-feminist perspective Walker alters her lived reality as a black woman using imagery from a vast array of histories to confront issues of race, gender and violence. Having first met Walker in 2006 and followed her artistic trajectory ever since, Géré’s holistic lens will explore Walker’s relationship to Afro-surrealism in the context of the artist’s work up to 2015.
Location: Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Language: English
Sunday 24th of Feb
Exhibition:
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN CONTEMPORARY ART AL MAADEN (MACAAL)
Material Insanity
Sunday 24 February, 13:30 – 18:00
The exhibition will be on view until 22 September
MACAAL, Al Maaden, Sidi Youssef Ben Ali
Forum
14:00 – 15:30
Comic Sounds
How can sound and orality reflect and document our (sur)realities and processes of imagination? Panellists will address the Netherlands’ jazz history and archives, and discuss immersive listening practices and audio recordings in the context of Morocco. A panel discussion with JESSICA DE ABREU(Anthropologist and Co-founder of The Black Archives, Amsterdam), ABDELLAH HASSAK (Sound Artist, Casablanca) and HASSAN JOUAD (Linguist and Anthropologist, Paris) moderated by Karima Boudou.
Location: La Mamounia
Language: French and English
19:30 – 20:30
Jazz is My Religion
A rare opportunity to engage with the work of Dutch filmmaker Louis van Gasteren. In 1963, Dutch writer and poet Simon Vinkenoog started a Jazz & Poetry night in Sheherazade, a nightclub in Amsterdam, on behalf of his American friends – including Ted Joans – who asked him “Hey man, where can you read Poetry here?” In 1964, van Gasteren directed the film Jazz and Poetry (1964, 14’) in which Ted Joans reads his poetry with jazz musicians Piet Kuiters, Ruud Jacobs, Cees See and Herman Schoonderwalt at Sheherazade. In response to the film, curators from the Marrakech-based collective UNTITLED (Soukaina Aboulaoula & Yvon Langué) will lead an intervention.
Location: LE 18
Language: French and English