MACAAL - Al Maaden Sculpture Park
Inaugurated in September 2013, Al Maaden Sculpture Park includes large sculpture works within the Al Maaden golf course.
Such exceptional artworks, from Morocco, China, Canada, India, Egypt and Argentina, vie with technique and scale, as they can be up to 8 metres high and 12 metres long. All works have been designed and created exclusively for the Al Maaden site.
MACAAL Exhibition / Material Insanity / 26.02 - 15.08.19
The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, announces Material Insanity, a group show exploring the material and its symbolic significance in a plurality of dimensions and formal experiences.
Opening on 26 February 2019, the exhibition contains works by 34 artists including Hassan Hajjaj (Morocco), Ibrahim Mahama (Ghana), Frances Goodman (South Africa) and Nari Ward (Jamaica), working across varying mediums. Through installations made from everyday objects, including new site-specific pieces commissioned by MACAAL, the exhibition reveals how artists from the African continent and its diaspora relate or re-imagine biographies of objects and materials to reflect the social, political, or economic contexts of their lived experience.
The exhibition also invites a critical analysis of past and present society by considering the impact of materiality on the world and its future, and by offering itself as a cultural response to devaluation, and dematerilisation, in an increasingly digital era. Responding to current art movements which focus on the transient or intangible, works such as Clay Apenouvon’s (Togo - France) stretched black plastic film, Owanto’s (Gabon) embroideries exhumed from the collective memory and Cyrus Kabiru’s (Kenya) material reinvention of electronic waste in the form of sculptural eyewear, question the lasting effects of globalization and consumerism in the comtemporary climate. Reinvisioning materials often associated with trade and waste as artworks, artists including Nari Ward (Jamaica), Fatiha Zemmouri (Morocco), M’barek Bouhchichi (Morocco), Hassan Bourkia (Morocco) and Malek Gnaoui (Tunisia), diversely use materiality as representations of memory, migration, societal expectations and tradition. Through their selected media they expose traces of many individual journeys and histories, illuminating the multiplicity of stories within the contemporary climate.
The immersive scenography of architect and artist Zineb Andress Arraki provides a space through which the exhibition’s concerns are amplified. These scenographic elements stretch from the Museum’s entrance to the garden; at the ground floor, monoliths and freestanding walls refer to sequentiality, perspective and the juxtaposition of spaces. The upper level follows a similar design, with mirrored sections accentuating the unity of the spectator’s space and the space of the artwork.
Several of the artists have created immersive works which draw the viewer in by their senses. A new work, DO touch and smell by Esmerelda Kosmatopoulos questions the physical connections that exist between the viewer and the artwork in an exhibition setting.
MACAAL Official Inauguration - Best Of
The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Marrakech was officially inaugurated on 24 February, 2018.
Discover the highlights of its inauguration.
MACAAL JAM Session
Des retrouvailles autour de la musique africaine pour inaugurer la 2ème exposition du MACAAL intitulée E-MOIS
Tea Time MACAAL #3 : Mohamed Haiti
Meet the Moroccan artist M'hammed Kilito, second artist-in-residence at MACAAL!
During his residency at MACAAL, Mohamed continued his work to safeguard the memory and historical, architectural and societal heritage of Morocco by producing a new series of illustrations on the theme of Marrakech, entitled ''Histoires bâties'' (Built stories). For a month, he documented the emblematic religious and historical buildings of the city, mixing minimalist representations with simplified and organic motifs inspired by these witnesses of the past.
Opening: Essentiel Paysage
Essentiel Paysage brings together a selection of modern and contemporary African artists. Some of whom testify through their works to their anchoring in a continent that has been blessed by nature, underscoring the interdependence between humans, animals and plants.
Others provide a critical perspective on the unsound utilization of natural resources in Africa and denounce its harmful effects.
Using visual metaphors, these unique, imaginative or scholarly artworks present a kaleidoscopic picture of the current state of the environment.
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ESSENTIAL LANDSCAPE:
African contemporary artists facing the environment
Nov.2016 - Mars.2017
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Tour des stands au Macaal POP - Marrakech 2019
Magnifique de voir cette explosion de créativité au Macaal (Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden)
Je vous fait un tour des stands, un peu a l'arrache mais avec le smile! Je me suis raté au debut donc il manque les stands de MATERIA METIS et Moroccan Touch desolé les amis.
Liste des stands:
Akewa
Sacha Official
Bee Maha
Oto'ctones
Up Above
Tribal Chic
Kam Design
Wanderlust Casablanca
Fin Awa
NasireLovely Sheep
llly's Valley
MARATERRE
Rhita creations
Marvibulous
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Marrakech Welcomes Outdoor Sculptures Park
With the Atlas Mountains as its backdrop, Fondation Alliances is bringing a monumental outdoor exhibition, the first of its kind in Africa, to Morocco.
Al Maaden Sculptures Park was created by both Moroccan and international artists, associating art with architecture on a picturesque spot in Marrakech.
With work by Moroccan and international artists, the initiative was based on an idea by collectors Alami and Farida Lazraq, who have long been committed to artistic creation.
The park was created following a call for projects. Artists were invited to design site and space-specific in situ works. The project will receive more than 20 sculptures over the years. 12 works are currently on view, selected by a committee for artistic quality and fit within the sprit of the venue.
Blouin ARTINFO France spoke with Fondation Alliances Executive Director Alexandra Balafrej about the project.
Making Venice Count: strategies and actions from Africa for Africa
From the African Art in Venice Forum 2019
9 May 2019 at 3:30 pm at Hotel Monaco & Grand Canal, Venice
Making Venice Count: strategies and actions from Africa for Africa
Participants will discuss the creative strategies and strategic actions that need to occur at the local level to ensure that participating with a national pavilion at the Venice Biennale creates a sustainable impact on the economy and infrastructure of the represented country and a strong relevance for its art sector.
With:
Valerie Kabov, Editor at Large, Art Africa Magazine | Founder, First Floor Gallery, Harare, Zimbabwe
Frank Kilbourn, Executive Chairperson, Strauss & Co, South Africa
Janine Gaëlle Dieudji, Exhibitions Director, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco
Moderated by Hannah O’Leary, Director, Head of Modern & Contemporary African Art, Sothebys, London, UK
Image: Miriro Mwandiambira’s performance Try to adore me, no?, 2018, Harare. Copyright First Floor Gallery, Harare and the artist.
Oasis Festival 2019: MACAAL
Last year, Oasis partnered with Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) to create a pop-up gallery on-site at the festival. The exhibit Flying Over Africa was open throughout the weekend, and showcased sculptures, photography, and other important works by contemporary artists from across the continent.
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THE WISH AFRICA EXPO PRESENTS THE SPEAKERS | MERIEM BERRADA, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, MACAAL
Meriem Berrada is Head of Cultural Projects at Fondation Alliances, where she designs and implements a range of artistic programmes.
Prior to joining Fondation Alliances in 2012, she served as contemporary art director at Compagnie Marocaine des Oeuvres et Objets d’Art (CMOOA), and was also a part of the Marrakech Art Fair team.
At Fondation Alliances, Meriem devised and set up, La Chambre Claire in 2013 and the Passerelles programme, a cross-sponsorship initiative that coordinates the cultural and social poles of Fondation Alliances through workshops designed to raise awareness of contemporary creation in peripheral urban areas.
In 2016, she piloted the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) development in Marrakech.
Meriem will be speaking on the “A Home For African Art” at the WISH Africa Expo in London.
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5 Things To Do In Marrakesh, Morocco
- There are so many sites to see in Marrakesh Morocco. You'll find out about 5 of them in this video.
Come out to for more information.
1. El Badi Palace in Marrakesh - watch more at
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3. Djemaa El Fna -
4. Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) -
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