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The Marrakech Biennale and beyond. Exhibition at the ifa galleries Stuttgart, 8 May - 5 July, and Berlin, 17 July - 4 October 2015. Curator: Alya Sebti; six participants.
Jul 2015Marrakech is a cultural, geographical and artistic crossroads between North and Sub-Saharan Africa, East and West. As a metaphorical centre, the city and its art biennial are in the focus of the exhibition Carrefour/Meeting Point – The Marrakech Biennale and Beyond in the ifa Gallery Berlin.
Carrefour – a crossroad where narratives meet: Each narrative embodies an individual trajectory with its own subjective mapping and centre: the centre from which one speaks. How can dialogue occur when individual trajectories meet, beyond the borders of words?
This exhibition is a journey towards ‘other’ modes of experiential and material connection. An invitation to draw porous routes and explore languages that counter the geographic and metaphorical distance that separates us. The starting point of this exhibition takes as a fictional centre the Marrakech Biennale. The curator Alya Sebti invited participants of past editions to develop ideas and projects within a new space of encounter.
With existing works as well as commissioned projects, they create new forms of language negotiating between alternatives forms of translation and transmission: where music becomes a unique orientation, olfactory experience draws a conversation between poetry and fragrance, where weaving performs as a geometry lesson and shield masks open up to listen to the polyphony of voices expressed by the individual whose path reaches a crossing – Carrefour / Meeting Point.
In recent years the ifa Galleries Berlin and Stuttgart have presented various international biennials which were, like the Marrakech Biennale, supported by the ifa (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations). The ifa is in charge of the German pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale, and as an actor in international artistic exchange it gives impulses in the discussions about the modes of operation of art biennials.
5th Marrakech Biennale in Nafas
Extensive photo tour, including all the venues of the visual arts section, showing works by almost all the participants. Review by Lucrezia Cippitelli.
26 February - 31 March 2014. Artistic Director: Alya Sebti. Curatorial team: Hicham Khalidi (visual arts), Khalid Tamer (performing arts), Jamal Abdenassar (cinema and video), Driss Ksikes (literature).
Curator: Alya Sebti
Participants:
Saâdane Afif
Leila Alaoui
Yassine Balbzioui
Max Boufathal
Megumi Matsubara
Clara Meister
Previously at the
ifa Gallery Stuttgart
8 May - 5 July 2015
Carrefour / Meeting Point
The Marrakech Biennale and beyond
17 July - 13 September 2015