MCC Gallery contributes to the creative renewal of contemporary art in Morocco. Centred on the deployment of multi-faceted exhibitions, giving full scope to the artist’s ambitions over the long term, it promotes a dialogue between Morocco, the Maghreb, the rest of the African continent and its diaspora.
In 2018, Fatima-Zohra Bennani Bennis launched the first art gallery dedicated to contemporary photography in the medina of Marrakech, the Dar El Bacha gallery. In this heritage district, she defends the work of artists who question the new realities of the photographic medium in Morocco, such as Mustapha Azeroual, but also great international photographers like Jean-Marie Perier.
In 2020, the new post-pandemic paradigms are pushing it to take up another challenge, that of reinventing the concept of the contemporary art gallery in Morocco. reinvent the concept of the contemporary art gallery in Morocco. She moved from the old medina to the industrial district of Sidi Ghanem, the new epicentre of creativity in Marrakech.
in Marrakech.
In this 600 m2 space, which she has christened MCC Gallery, she is embarking on a new adventure: that of giving substance to the ambitions of the artists she accompanies, through large-scale projects and evolving exhibitions, incorporating stages of reflection and encounters with the public. Amine El Gotaibi‘s ‘VISITE’ will inaugurate the space in 2021-2022, retracing his journey to Africa in a museum format and through monumental pieces, with contributions from international thinkers such as Youssef Seddik. In 2022-2023, Yassine Balbzioui‘s CHARADES, curated by Simon Njami, is once again part of a long-term creative process, in which the artist and his curator develop 4 different creative phases before the eyes of visitors, accompanied by concerts, performances and more. The aim of this choice, which goes against the current thinking of Moroccan galleries, is to develop contemporary art in Morocco to an international standard, so that the continent‘s artists can exist with ever greater intensity.