Marrakech Biennale 2016 Programme

The curatorial concept of this year’s biennial starts the premise of the designated title for the Biennale: Not New Now. It aims to provide for an intellectual framework that unites multiple arenas of art and cultures by looking at it from the particular location and history of the city of Marrakech. It builds on a longstanding history of Pan Afro-Arab unity, through critically investigating socio political projects, cultural partnerships, and art movements that have led to many shared artistic tendencies.

OPENING WEEK PROGRAM

24 - 28 February, 2016
Main Program
* Partner and Parallel Programs
Wednesday 24 February
15:00-18:00 Opening Ceremony - Palais El Bahia
16:30 Main Exhibition Tour at Palais El Bahia with curator Reem Fadda and assistant curator Ilaria Conti
18:00-19:00 “3600” Performance by Radouan Mriziga – Palais El Badii
19:00 Vernissage exhibition by Larbi Cherkaoui – Dar Cherifa *
Thursday 25 February
11:00 “NOT NEW NOW” - Curatorial Talk with Reem Fadda - La Mamounia
13:00-16:00 “The Book of Exile” Performance by Sandi Hilal & Alessandro Petti – Citernes de la Koutoubia
13:00-17:00 “Victoria Dearest” Performance by Rayyane Tabet – Pavillon de la Menara
16:00-17:30 Vernissage – Parallel Projects – L’Blassa *
16:00 Main Exhibition Tour - Dar Si Saïd
16:00 Street Art Sunset Party - Attollo - Café des Epices *
16:00-16:20 and 17:30-17:50 “Toi, un coquelicot - Un coquelicot, moi aussi” Performance by Megumi Matsubara and Marine Chesnais (music by Clovis Lemée) - Palais El Badii
16:00-17:00 “Inside Ahmed Bouanani’s Library” Improvised Talk by Juan Asís Palao Gómez - Palais El Bahia
17:00 Vernissage KE’CH collective – KE’CH swap2016 – Riad Laarouss *
18:00 “Le Départ…” - Performance by Chourouk Hriech – Dar Cherifa *
18:00-19:00 “3600” - Performance by Radouan Mriziga – Palais El Badii
18:00 Opening group exhibition “Global Wonderland” - Jnane Tamsna *

EXPOSITION VENUES

1- Bank Al Maghreb* 
2- L’Blassa* 
3- Dar Cherifa 
4- ESAV 
5-Medersa Ben Youssef 

*Open from 10am-6pm every day; February 24-28 open from 10am-8pm

EXPOSITION/VIDEO INSTALLATION

Amine Oulmakki – Morocco
Oxygène – Video installation
With the support of The French Institute of Marrakech
L'Blassa

Baerbel Mueller, Juergen Strohmayer, Stefanie Theuretzbacher – Austria
Tracing the Periphery – Installation and interventions in the public space
Vernissage April 24
L’Blassa

Ben Rivers – England
The earth trembles and the sky afraid and two eyes are not brothers – Film and installation
L’Blassa

Céline Croze – Maroc/ France
Mourakouch (La terre de dieux)– Video and live performance
L’Blassa
Performance February 29 at 6pm

Emma Brack – Canada
Catching the Wind: on extinction and radical resistance – Video installation
With the support of the Canada Council for the Arts
L’Blassa

Emo de Medeiros – Benin
Kaleta/Kaleta – Video and performance
L’Blassa

Estabrak Al-Ansari – Oman
Tales of the Mother Tongue – Video and performance
March 4 from 5:00-5:30pm
Dar Cherifa

Fana Wogi – Ethiopia
Group Exhibition
Emanuel Tegene, Aida Muluneh, Wendimagne Gashaw, Tamrat Gezahegne, Ephrem Solomon
L'Blassa

Heba Y. Amin – Egypt
The Earth is an Imperfect Ellipsoid – Photography
L’Blassa

Houda Ghorbel and Wadi Mhiri – Tunisia
Comme un flamand rose – Video installation
L'Blassa

Marco Guerra – United States
Tangiers – Photography
L’Blassa

Mouna Jemal Siala – Tunisia
Le fils – Video
L’Blassa

Nadia Mounier – Egypt
The reflection of the moon – Photography
L’Blassa

Nadine Hattom – Iraq/Australia
Shadows – Photography
With the support of the Ifa Galerie Berlin 
L’Blassa

Patrick Morarescu – Germany
Performers & Performing Grounds – Video and performance
L'Blassa

Saddie Choua – Belgium
The Chouas – A Work IN Progress#Episode 3 Je jure par Dieu Tout-Puissant, je dis que la vérité et rien que la vérité – Video
L'Blassa 
Intervention March 3 at 6pm at ESAV

Sara Frikech and Lucas Ter Hall – The Netherlands
Follow the Thread – Installation
L’Blassa

Yasmina Alaoui – Morocco/France
Sans-titres – Painting and sculpture
L’Blassa

Younes Atbane – Morocco
Looking at the World Through Legs – Photography
L’Blassa

PERFORMANCES

Chourouk Hriech – France/Morocco
Le depart... – Live performance
February 25 at 6:00pm at Dar Cherifa
February 25 at 12:30pm at ESAV 

Mohamed Abdelkarim – Egypt
Christopher Columbus meets Diego Diaz and Ahmed’s Revenge – Performance
May 4 and 6
Medersa Ben Youssef

ARTS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE

Anahita Razmi – Germany
HERESCRIPTS – Cinema
With the support of the Goethe-Insitut Morocco 
Website and L’Blassa

Allard Van Hoorn – The Netherlands
Urban Songlines Marrakech – Performance
February 26, 27 and 28 from 3:00-5:00pm
Ramparts of Marrakech – Bab Nkob

Blond & Gilles – Switzerland
Carte blanche – Interventions in the public space
L’Blassa

Zbel Manifesto – Morocco
Bab(z)bel – Installation in the public space
L’Blassa

The Parallel Exposition is commissioned by the artistic committee of the MB6, designed by M’Barek Bouhchichi, and coordinated by Sanaa El Younsi.

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