current residents
Studio 5
Nabil Himich (Artist, Morocco/Meknes)
From 01/02/24 - 01/02/25
Nabil Himich works at the intersection of architecture and literature to investigate political themes. By juxtaposing painting, installation, writing, drawing, sculpture, and participatory forms, his multi-layered work broaches themes such as the singular and the multiple, unequal structures, psychogeography, and the poetics of enclosure. He often adopts notions such as ‘con-texture’ and ‘archi-texture’ to provide deconstructive schemes for thoughts and actions. These notions are also conceptual tools for narratives around the production and formation of place, the distribution of territory and knowledge, and class issues and representation.
Nabil Himich is a multidisciplinary artist and graduate of the Institut National Des Beaux Arts (Tétouan 2020), based in Marrakech.
Studio 6
Khadija El-Abyad
(Artist, Morocco/Agadir)
From 01/02/24 - 01/02/25
Over the past seven years, El-Abyad has developed a practice woven around her cultural and social contexts. This practice forms an ongoing research into how social constructs are experienced and embodied. Intimate, often worn, material
constructions in various dimensions constitute the main body of her work, which she addresses as ‘body screens’. Her artworks are enriched by materials produced by the body - most notably the artist’s hair - as a symbolic gesture of extending the body. Commitments, obligations, and expectations, as well as engendered future(s), are played out within objects and performances that incorporate the vital materials of everyday life.
Khadija el Abyad is a multidisciplinary visual artist and graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts (Tétouan 2017). She lives and works nomadically between places, such as Casablanca.
Studio 8
.
.
.
vacant
Studio 9
Khalid Boulaadam
(Artist, Morocco/Safi)
From 01/02/24 - 01/02/25
Khalid is a young artist from the region of Safi who graduated from the Tetouan Academy of Fines Arts in 2020.
The son of a potter, he is reflecting on the tradition within the history of clay use in Morocco, from the nature of the material to the shape it has to the motives used, and its evolution throughout the modern era.
Upcoming residents
Nástio Mosquito
(Artist, Portugal/Angola )
From 21/05/24 - 27/05/24
Nástio Mosquito’s (born 1981 in Luanda/Angola) work is characterized by its cross-genre multifacetedness. Film, music, theatre, video, and installation blend into one another to form a dense performative-digital poetry of image and language.
In 2014, he was awarded the Future Generation Art Prize. He lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
Lara Baladi
(Artist, Lebanon/Egypt)
Second visit from 15/05/24 - 31/05/24
An acclaimed Egyptian-Lebanese photographer, archivist and multimedia artist, Lara Baladi co-founded of the Arab Image Foundation (AIF). Her body of work encompasses photography, video, visual montages/collages, installations, architectural constructions, tapestries, sculptures and even perfume.
During the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, Baladi co-founded two media initiatives: Radio Tahrir and Tahrir Cinema. .
.
.
.
vacant
.
.
.
vacant
past residents
Fayçal Tiaïba/Laberinto
(architect, Algeria/France)
From 21/05/24 - 27/05/24
Fayçal Tiaïba (né en 1974, Chambéry, France) est architecte et photographe. Il a obtenu son diplôme à l’Ecole Polytechnique d’Architecture d’Alger en 1997 et son DEA à l’Université de La Sorbonne à Paris, se spécialisant dans le patrimoine historique et les mutations urbaines. Après avoir travaillé avec Shigeru Ban à Paris, il rejoint le Studio KO à Marrakech pour le projet du Musée Yves Saint Laurent avant de devenir associé. Il quitte l’agence en 2022 et fonde Laberinto, un studio multidisciplinaire basé à Marrakech et Paris. Il poursuit en parallèle sa pratique photographique, questionnant le rapport entre histoire et architecture. En 2024, il fonde Atelier Gueliz, un laboratoire d’idées qu’il anime avec des étudiants dans le but de faire reconnaître et protéger le patrimoine architectural de Marrakech. Ses précédentes expositions à Marrakech s’intitulent Homo Urbanicus et Atelier Gueliz : identifier.
Koharu Yamaguchi
(Blacksmith, Japan)
&
Shinya Kobayashi
(Artist/Designer, Japan)
Second visit from 15/05/24 - 31/05/24
with the support of MUJUN Japan.
Mujun is a design and craft collective living and working in the rural Japan where traditional craft industry still exists. They are a team of designers and young craftsmen who specialize in knife making.
In 2008, they started their design practices, and have worked with craftsmen in different fields. Their clients are experienced veteran craftsmen who have been perfecting their skills for a long time. Their role as a design company is to modernize the beauty of their crafts for the wider audience.
Redesigning the crafts was not enough to reach the new market. Craftsmen needed more help. They needed to create a stronger brand to stay competitive in the market. More importantly, many of the craftsmen are getting too old to continue working while most of them did not have young apprentices to inherit the work of craftsmanship.
Jelle Seegers
(Designer, Netherlands)
From 15/05/24 - 30/06/24
With the support of Embassy of the Netherlands in Morocco.
Makes solar and human powered tools and machines, allowing himself and others to make beautiful, long lasting things in a sustainable way.
MAMMA Group
(Architects, Casablanca)
From 21/06/24 - 30/06/24
MAMMA organized the Marrakech Modern Map (MMM) Workshop together with co-host Fayçal Tiaïba, gathering 10 youngs professionals around the heritage of Gheliz.
MAMMA is an NGO dedicated to promoting and celebrating Moroccan art, architecture, and urbanism from the second half of the 20th century. Our primary mission is to shed light on the innovative work of a pioneering generation of modern architects.