1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair Marrakech 2020

Artskop3437 — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 09:02:11 +0000

1-54 Marrakech will return to La Mamounia, 22-23 February 2020, with VIP Previews 20-21 February.

1-54 has carefully selected 20 leading galleries from 10 countries (Belgium, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Senegal, South Africa and the United Kingdom) to exhibit at the third edition of the fair in Marrakech. The fair will showcase the work of more than 65 artists, both emerging and established, working in a wide variety of mediums and from a range of geographical locations comprising 20 countries.

1-54 Marrakech will be accompanied by 1-54 Forum, the fair’s extensive talks and events programme, which will include artist talks and panel discussions with international curators, artists and cultural producers, to be held at La Mamounia, ESAV and Le 18 in parallel to the fair. For the 2020 Marrakech edition, 1-54 Forum will be curated for the first time by independent art space, The Showroom, London. The project will be led by The Showroom’s curatorial team and takes its methodology from the organisation’s programme of engagement with its local north-west London community, Communal Knowledge. Entitled On focus: Communal Knowledge at Large, 1-54 Forum will explore the potential of that methodology to be translated to other contexts. Nurtured by the insightful contributions of local and international agents, 1-54 Forum will become a platform to interrogate multiple practices of socially engaged art, leading to the production of a new roadmap of organisational and institutional collective methodologies originated by this encounter between artists, activists, institutions and community organisers.

1-54 will also present a wide programme of bespoke events in partnership with Musée d’Art Contemporain Africain Al Madeen (MACAAL), Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, Montresso* Art Foundation, Le 18, Comptoir des Mines Galerie and Institut Français, amongst others.

> Une aventure poétique, the first retrospective exhibition by Jacques Azéma at musée Yves Saint Laurent marrakech
> HAVE YOU SEEN A HORIZON LATELY?, a group exhibition curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi at Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL)
> IN-DISCIPLINE #3 at Montresso* Art Foundation
> Comptoir des Mines Galerie presenting two solo exhibitions by Mohamed Arejdal and Fatiha Zemmouri in their art space in the heart of Gueliz
> Hamdoullah ça va! a group show with Mohamed Bourouissa and four young artists, presented by Sonia Perrin at DaDa
> Alter Ego Uprisings at Dar Moulay Ali, Maison de la France à Marrakech, a group show with works by artists Amina Benbouchta, Deborah Benzaquen, Soumiya Jalal, Seloua Ejjennane, curated by Elisa Ganivet

Galleries participating at 1-54 Marrakech 2020

1-54 Marrakech is located at La Mamounia:

La Mamounia Palace
Avenue Bab Jdid
Marrakech 40040
Morocco

20 – 21 February: by invitation only

Saturday 22 February
11:00 – 19:00

Sunday 23 February
11:00 – 18:00

1-54 Marrakech is free and open to all

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Salah El Mur, Amre Heiba, Ahmed Sabry, and many other in a summer group exhibition 2019 at Mashrabia Gallery

Artskop3437 — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 09:48:36 +0000

Mashrabia gallery is not closing its doors in the summertime!

Ahmed Sabry, The Fifth Settlement, 2015. Acrylic on canvas 120×80 cm. © Copyright the artist. Courtesy Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art.

This year Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art has decided to surprise its public by keeping both its spaces open also in the summertime. The exceptional news comes as an occasion to celebrate the phenomenal passage from our original 30-year-old gallery space in Champollion Street to the new renovated space in Bassiouny Street. The choice not to leave Downtown is indeed intended to reaffirm the historical and artistic importance of Wust El Balad as the cradle and core of Contemporary Art in Cairo.

Soad Abdel Rasoul The man and two women, 2019. Acrylic on canvas 117×130 cm framed. © Copyright the artist. Courtesy Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art.

The renovation of a space which used to be an important tailor’s shop back in the last century into their new main exhibiting space allows the gallery not only to become an active part of an ongoing process aimed to revalorise the local urban heritage, but also to make artworks live again in a unique contemporary art venue.

Thus, this rivitalising transition is meant to help us get closer to achieving our most ambitious vocation, that is to give life to a contemporary art venue encouraging and promoting experimentation in all its forms, such as installations, huge-size canvases, as well as to challenge conventions and traditions to turn to diverse performative artistic means. For these reasons, the Summer Collection puts together works by artists who have played a fundamental role in shaping Mashrabia Gallery of Contemporary Art’s history and identity.

The selection comprises of established artists whose originality and adeptness we believe in the most, artists who have contributed to the local and international reputation of the gallery, and artists whose talent and determination give us infinite hope.

Summer group Show

Mashrabia Gallery Of Contemporary Art

On view until September 12th 2019

Daily except Friday from 11am to 8pm
15, Mahmoud Bassiony street,
Qasr El-Nil, Cairo, Egypt

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