The Arts festival in Marrakech, now the Marrakech Biennale, first took place in 2005.
It was set up by
Vanessa Branson
Vanessa Branson (born 1959) is an English entrepreneur and the founder of the Marrakech Biennale. Early life
Branson is the youngest child of Eve Branson (''née'' Evette Huntley Flindt; 1924–2021), a former ballet dancer and air hostess, and ...
and Abel Damoussi with the help of curator Danny Moynihan and Liberatum creator Pablo Ganguli. It is the first major Trilingual (English, Arabic & French) festival in North Africa. It focuses on cutting-edge contemporary Visual Art, Literature, and Film. It consists of a main Visual Arts Exhibition, other arts exhibitions, installations and happenings, discussions, debates and screenings based in the eclectic venues and settings that Marrakech has to offer. AiM is now known as Marrakech Biennale. The sixth biennale, in 2016, was organized by
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi curator Reem Fadda and its main venues were the 16th-century
El Badi Palace and the 19th-century El Bahia Palace. It featured work including the sculpture ''À l'abri...de rien'' by Fatiha Zemmouri.
References
External links
2012 Visual Arts Program WebsiteArts In Marrakech International Biennale WebsiteExhibition Website*
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Festivals in Morocco
Literary festivals in Morocco
Moroccan literature
Marrakesh
Festivals established in 2005
Arab art scene
Arts festivals in Morocco