1-54 will launch its inaugural edition in Marrakech, Morocco between the 24 – 25 February 2018 at La Mamounia. 1-54 Marrakech 2018 will welcome 17 leading galleries from Africa and around the world, with over 60 international artists and feature an ambitious program of talks and events in partnership with local institutions.

GALLERIES

(S)ITOR / Sitor Senghor, Art Twenty One, Blain | Southern, Galerie Cécile Fakhoury, Galerie Mikael Andersen, Galerie Vallois, L’Atelier 21, Loft Art Gallery, LouiSimone Guirandou Gallery, MAGNIN-A, Officine dell’Immagine, Primo Marella Gallery, Sulger-Buel Lovell, Tiwani Contemporary, Vigo Gallery, VOICE gallery, Yossi Milo Gallery

SPECIAL PROJECTS

Elisabeth Efua Sutherland, Eric van Hove – The Mahjouba Initiative, Le Comptoir des Mines Galerie, Montresso* Art Foundation, Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Noureddine Amir, Yoriyas

ARTISTS

Aboudia, Mohamed Abouelouakar, Olu Amoda, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Aston, Barreto Nù, Yesmine Khelil, Hicham Benohoud, Mahi Binebine, Nathalie Boutté, Saâd Ben Cheffaj, Virgina Chihota, Joana Choumali, Soly Cissé, Dalila Dalléas Bouzar, Hassan Darsi, Slimen El Kamel, Nabli El Makhloufi, Ibrahim El-Salahi, Safaa Erruas, mounir fatmi, Sonja Ferlov Mancoba, François-Xavier Gbré, Hassan Hajjaj, King Houndekpinkou, Délio Jasse, Kiripi Katembo, Farah Kheli, Abdoulaye Konaté, Richard Afanou Korblah, Moshekwa Langa, Walid Layadi-Marfouk, Mohamed Lekleti, Namsa Leuba, Houston Maludi, Ernest Mancoba, Kyle Meyer, JP Mika, Sara Ouhaddou, Thierry Oussou, Dawit L.Petros, Prince Toffa, Ghizlane Sahli, Sory Sanlé, Amadou Sanogo, Kassou Seydou, Tchif, Eric van Hove, Ouattara Watts, Yamou, Dominique Zinkpè, Ana Zulma

FORUM

Curated by Omar Berrada, 1-54 FORUM returns for its ninth edition in Marrakech between the 23 – 25 February 2018 at La Mamounia. In addition, FORUM will host two sessions at ESAV (L’École Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech) and LE 18, a multidisciplinary art space.

The 1-54 Marrakech FORUM programme Always Decolonise! will engage with the notion that decolonisation is not a historical event that belongs to the past. In the face of lingering coloniality, the programme will explore the idea that decolonisation is an everyday task, in constant need of re-actualisation. In a series of talks, panel discussions, screenings and performances, FORUM will foreground the need to decolonise knowledge production, to unlearn Eurocentrism, and to build new futures by re-membering the remaining fragments of folklorised pasts. FORUM will call upon the imagination of artists and cultural producers to help invent new modes of acting and thinking.

1-54 Marrakech is located at La Mamounia:

La Mamounia Palace
Avenue Bab Jdid
Marrakech 40040
Morocco

Entry to 1-54 Marrakech is free.

1-54.com/marrakech