overview disciplines of the mb5

Marrakech Biennale 5
Association de la Biennale de Marrakech
2 Derb Moulay Abdellah Ben Hassain
Riad el-Fenn, Bab Laksour, Medina
Marrakech, Maroc 40 000
+212 (0)524378265
www.marrakechbiennale.org
OVERVIEW DISCIPLINES OF THE MB5
VISUAL ARTS & SOUND
The exhibition, curated by Hicham Khalidi, invites 43 artists from Morocco and several other
countries. The vast majority of the artworks will be site specific, produced in and inspired by the
context of Marrakech. The artpieces are diffused between the venues of the 16th century Palais
Badii, the Dar Si Said, which houses the Museum of Moroccan Arts, the former Bank Al Maghrib in
the middle of the Jemaa El Fna square - This square is the pulsing heart of the Medina of
Marrakech, and it has been defined by UNESCO as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage
of Humanity- and a unique art deco building in the area of Gueliz.
Saâdane Afif (1975, Vendome, FR)
Wafae Ahalouch el Keriasti (1978, Tanger,
MA)
Hiba, Ghita and Zineb Khamlichi (2000, 1995,
1988, Rabat, MA)
Adriana Lara (1978, Mexico City, MX)
Mustapha Akrim (1981, Rabat, MA)
Gabriel Lester (1972, Amsterdam, NL)
Can and Asli Altay (1975, Ankara, TR)
Tala Madani (1981, Teheran, IR)
Mounira Al Solh (1978, Beirut, LB)
Saud Mahjoub (1957, Makkah, SA)
Mohamed Arejdal (1984, Guelmim, MA)
Randa Maroufi (1987, Casablanca, MA)
Burak Arikan (1976, Istanbul, TR)
Agnes Meyer-Brandis (1973, Aachen, DE)
Jelili Atiku (1968, Ejigbo, NG)
Sandra Niessen (1954, Toronto, CA)
Kader Attia (1970, Dugny, FR)
Walid Raad (1967, Beirut, LB)
Yassine Balbzioui (1972, Kelâat Es-Sraghna,
MA)
Younes Rahmoun (1975, Tetouan, MA)
Charif Benhelima (1966, Brussels, BE)
Hicham Benohoud (1968, Marrakech, MA)
Katinka Bock (1976, Frankfurt/Main, DE)
Lili Reynaud Dewar (1975, La Rochelle, FR)
Pamela Rosenkranz (1979, Sils-Maria, CH)
Khaled Sabsabi (1965, Tripoli, LB)
Max Boufathal (1983, Paris, FR)
Saout Radio: Younes Baba-Ali (1986, Oujda,
MA) & Anna Raimondo (1981, Maddaloni, IT)
Keren Cytter (1977, Tel-Aviv, Il)
JG Thirlwell (freq_out)
Shezad Dawood (1974, London, UK)
Éric Van Hove (1975, BE)
Hamid El Kenbouhi (1976, Larache MA)
Anne Verhoijsen (1951, Someren, NL)
Cevdet Erek (1974, Istanbul, TR)
Asim Waqif (1978, Hyderabad, IND)
Hamza Halloubi (1982, Tangier, MA)
Patrick Wokmeni (1985, Douala, CM)
Iman Issa (1979, Cairo, EG)
Katarina Zdjelar (1979, Belgrade, RS)
Hassaan Kahn & Ibtesam Gazder (1976/1983,
Jeddah, SA)
La Biennale de Marrakech est une association à but non lucratif / The Marrakech Biennale is a non-profit organisation
Marrakech Biennale 5
Association de la Biennale de Marrakech
2 Derb Moulay Abdellah Ben Hassain
Riad el-Fenn, Bab Laksour, Medina
Marrakech, Maroc 40 000
+212 (0)524378265
www.marrakechbiennale.org
SPECIALLY COMISSIONED PROJECTS
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Singing Maps and Underlying Melodies - Curated by Clara Meister in collaboration with
S.T.I.F.F., KamarStudios and Moroccan musicians
FREQ_OUT 10 - Commissioned by Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary
(www.tba21.org)
Anna Ceeh
Jacob Kirkegaard
Maia Urstad
BJ Nilsen
JG Thirlwell
Mike Harding
Brandon LaBelle
Kamar Studios
Petteri Nisunen
Carl Michael von Hausswolff
Kent Tankred
Tommi Grönlund
Christinane Ödlund
Leif e. boman
Fanz Pomassi
Leif Elggren
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Le Salon – by Hassan Hajjaj in Partnership with the Kechmara
CINEMA & VIDEO
Curated by Jamal Abdennaser, Cinema and Video will consider contemporary creations from
North Africa in dialogue with other regions, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East.
With the participation of the pioneering founder of the festival of video installation Casaprojecta,
Jamal Abdenassar, video installation as a hyphen between film, visual art, and performing art will be
very present for this edition. The film screenings and roundtables will be combined by a carte
blanche to the legendary Cinematheque de Tanger.
With a Carte Blanche to “La Cinematheque de Tanger‘‘
Cinema :
Vidéo :
Hicham Ayouch
Hassan Darsi
Ismael El Iraki
Soukeina Hachem
Amir Rouani
Yasmine Hajji
Yacout Kabbaj
Mohammed Laouli
Youssef Ouchra
La Biennale de Marrakech est une association à but non lucratif / The Marrakech Biennale is a non-profit organisation
Marrakech Biennale 5
Association de la Biennale de Marrakech
2 Derb Moulay Abdellah Ben Hassain
Riad el-Fenn, Bab Laksour, Medina
Marrakech, Maroc 40 000
+212 (0)524378265
www.marrakechbiennale.org
LITERATURE
Led by the Moroccan writer and theater author Driss Ksikès, the Literary discipline promotes access
to public space through a series of roundtables as well as performative lectures, connecting
performing art and literature. These events will take place in the Royal Theater, a contested theater
and opera house built in the late 70s yet never used as such. Playing on this, it was also the main
venue of the previous edition of the Marrakech Biennale. The literature section will also take place in
Riad Denise Masson, the house of the first women who ever translated the Koran into French and
Dar Cherifa, the oldest house of the Medina. Finally, the exhibition opens to the most public space of
the city as it merges with the visual art exhibition in the main square Jemaa El Fna, fusing the new and
the old.
Comédiens : Monsef Al
- Sophia Hadi
- Ali Essafi
Kabri, Ismail Alaoui,
- Latefa Ahrrare
- Abdelmajid Arrif
Meryem Ara, Bouchra
Cherif, Adam Hlou, Selma
- Simohammed Fettaka
- Taïeb Belghazi
Bensouda,
Reda
Jaafari,
Membres de l’atelier : Said
- Olfa Youssef
Sarah Reghay
Afifi, Omar Mahfoudi,
- Ghaleb Bencheikh
Zainab Andalib, Mohcine
- Imane Zerouali
Nakari
Comédiens : Benayad Nadia,
- Asmae Lmrabet
Ghizlaine
Benjamaa,
Salima
- Hanane El Farissi - Lucie
- Mohamed Sghir Janjar
Moumni, Touda BouananiWright - Bilal Touzani
Yasmina Safouane, Lina
- Yves Gonzalez-Quijano
- Saïd Bouftass
Ksikes, Thierry Corbeau,
- Mounir Bensalah
Membres de l’atelier : Ait
Landri Hillair, Emmanuel
Haddou Imane, Doulfikar
- Raja El Mouatarif
Bonnetat
Salahddine, Sedki Jade,
- Sanaa Al A
- Omar Mahfoudi
Fatima Ezzahra Benyahya
- Michael Willis
- Hamza Boulaïz
- Jaouad Essounani
- Saloua Zerhouni
PERFORMING ARTS
Performing Arts is organized by Khalid Tamer, the founder of Alwaln’art, the public space festival in
Marrakech. He will create a circulation that reimagines the relationships of public space to both
outsiders and natives between several venues of the Biennale. This movement is organized as
a dialogue between the contemporary and the traditional, connecting the two areas where the
Biennale will take place: the more traditional space of the Medina and the modern area of Gueliz, the
first area built outside of the Medina fortification starting in 1913. The main purpose of this
circulation in the public space is to invite the immediate and spontaneous audience to participate in
the Biennale by interconnecting the main venues.
Phillipe Allard
Collectif les Scotcheurs Eclairés
Bouchichi M’Barek
Dol Sandrine
Collectif Eclat de Lune
Ouizgane Bouchra
La Biennale de Marrakech est une association à but non lucratif / The Marrakech Biennale is a non-profit organisation