The Arts festival in Marrakech, now the Marrakech Biennale, first took place in 2005. It was set up by

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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

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curator Reem Fadda and its main venues were the 16th-century

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and the 19th-century El Bahia Palace. It featured work including the sculpture ''À l'abri...de rien'' by Fatiha Zemmouri. Vanessa Branson MB 2016

References

External links

2012 Visual Arts Program Website

Arts In Marrakech International Biennale Website

Exhibition Website

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