Presentation
Born in 1963 in Casablanca, Morocco.
Lives and works in Casablanca, Morocco.
Presentation
Through her installations, paintings, and photographs, Amina Benbouchta explores the ambiguity of women’s conditions in a society where they are honored and sacralized on one hand, and belittled and threatened on the other. In her work, she evokes this gap or balancing, depending, between the norms of contemporary life and those of tradition, through her emphasis on the contrast between the beauty of forms, colors, and materials, and other recurring elements alluding to confinement, oppression, and submission. Thrown, like Alice, into the heart of a reality/fiction she tries to make sense of, the artist explores the violence and kindness of our complex time in a sensitive way. She opens a poetic path in which universality tells her aspiration to freedom.
Amina Benbouchta has opened a unique path in the Moroccan contemporary art landscape. While renewing the very old confrontation with painting, its tradition, and codes, she also develops a work around volume and space. She explores her recurring themes, objects of memory or retinal persistence, on canvas and paper or in the form of installations that play on scale and materials. An archaic body is speaking through these forms presented in a subtle play of veiling/unveiling, appearance/concealment, a play of transparency also present in her recent work on altuglas, at the surface of a reality that remains nonetheless violent and dark. Always on the edge, Amina Benbouchta, from this part of the world where she creates her work, claims it is possible to stand in a universal relationship with the world and remain outside of identity issues. Our inner landscapes, the memorial images we conjure up inside, even if heterogeneous, reconcile us with ourselves and question this relationship.
Education
1986 Bachelor in anthropology Middle East studies, Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada
Selected Artworks
Ensauvagement, édition 1/5
2015
150.0 x 100.0 cm / 59.1 x 39.4 in
DTRH #9
2012
28.0 x 40.0 cm / 15.8 x 11.0 in
Nos palais, nos prisons
2022
205.0 x 205.0 cm / 78.7 x 78.7 in
Rivage
2023
140.0 x 130.0 cm / 55.1 x 51.2 in
Exhibitions In Our Galleries
All Exhibitions
Solo shows
2016
Traversées, Dar El Kitab, Casablanca, Morocco
2015
(M)eta(M)orphosis, Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Femmes au pluriel, Salon International de Tanger des livres et des arts, Tanger, Morocco
2014
Tout ce qui brille Matisse Art Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
2013
Galerie Granville, Paris, France
Down the rabbit hole Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2012
Matisse Art Gallery Marrakech Morocco
Galerie Talmart, Paris, France
2011
Galerie Artae, Lyon, France,
De l'autre coté du miroir Espace Le Cube, Rabat, Morocco
2010
Villa Matisse Art Contemporain, Marrakech, Morocco
Espace Le Cube, Rabat, Morocco
2009
Matisse Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
La source du Lion, Casablanca, Morocco
2008
Galerie Ré, Marrakech, Morocco
Galerie Souffle. Casablanca, Morocco
2006
Amina Benbouchta, Le Cube, Rabat, Morocco
2004
Foundouk Bachko, Saâd Hassani, Casablanca, Morocco
1997
Espace ''9'', Casablanca, Morocco
1996
Galerie El Manar, Casablanca, Morocco.
1995
IFC French Cultural Institute, Casablanca, Morocco
1994
Galerie Winance-Sabbe, Brussels, Belgium
1992
Galerie El Manar, Casablanca, Morocco
1991
Galerie Arcanes, Rabat, Morocco
Group shows
2017
Waste lands, Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián, Spain
Le monde et le reste, curated by Bernard Collet, Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris, France
2016
Feminart II, Espacio Turina, Sevilla, Spain
Des nuages et des formes, Villa Dela porte, Casablanca, Morocco
Waste Lands Es Baluard, Mallorca, Spain
EastWing Biennial, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United-Kingdom
I love you, VideoInsight Foundation, Torino, Italy
2015
Traces of the Future, Marrakech Museum for Photography an Visual Arts, Marrakech, Morocco
Intercession Galeria Delacroix, Tanger, Morocco
2014
The luxury of dirt, Voice Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Regards Orientalistes, Hôtel Selmane, Marrakech, Morocco
La forme animale, Venise Cadre Galerie. Casablanca, Morocco
1914 - 2014: Cent and de crétion, curated by M. Rachdi, Musée Mohamed VI d'Art Moderne et Contemporain/MMVI, Rabat, Morocco
Préfiguration, Centre d'art contemporain Halle des Bouchers, Vienne, France
Please rewind! Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2013
Mil caras Instituto Cervantes, Centre d'art de Tétouan, Morocco
The World Is Not As I See It, Musée Slaoui, Casablanca, Morocco
Mil caras, Musée Slaoui, Casablanca, Morocco
2012
The World Is Not As I See It Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
Cuerpos Sabrina Amrani Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Art/code/21_siècle, Institut Français de Tanger, Morocco
2011
Le Deuxième Regard Institut Français de Rabat et Espace de la CDG, Rabat, Morocco
2009
25th Alexandria Biennale for Mediterranean Countries Alexandria, Egypt
Figures du corps SG Bank, Casablanca, Morocco
Efemmeras Instituto Cervantes, Tanger, Morocco
Connexions Bergerac Museum, France
Passerelle VII Villa des Arts ONA Fondation, Casablanca, Morocco
2008
Matisse Art Gallery, Marrakech, Morocco
Arte Contemporaneo en Marruecos Casa Árabe, Madrid, Spain
Les 15, Galerie Ré, Marrakech, Morocco
Estiu art 2008, Castel de Denia, Denia, Spain
Exposition du Collectif 212, Le Cube, Rabat, Morocco
Visual Art and New Medias Festival Casablanca, Morocco
Art Galleries Night Le cube, Rabat, Morocco
2007
Women and art in Morocco, Fundación Colegio del Rey, Madrid, Spain
2006
Genap 2005, Sacré Cœur Cathedral, Casablanca, Morocco
2005
Collectif 212 '30 par 30' Le cube, Rabat, Morocco
L'inspiration en partage Le cube, Rabat, Morocco
2004
Maroc-France, expériences croisées, Marrakech Art Museum, Morocco.
Visions actuelles, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
Transparency, Maroc/CDG, Rabat, Morocco
Traits Gravures - Bahnini Ministry of Culture, Rabat, Morocco
Parcours d'artistes, Rabat, Morocco
2003
Moroccan painters, Lycée Descartes, Rabat, Morocco
Moroccan artists, Kerava Museum, Finland
Looking for our secret Atlas Actua, Casablanca, Morocco
2002
Painters from our times, El Manar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2001
Women artists in Morocco Bab El Kebir, Rabat, Morocco
Moroccan painters, Les Ateliers d'Arts Plastiques, Lille, France
Moroccan contemporary art Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Moroccan contemporary art Barcelona, Spain
Moroccan contemporary art Valencia, Spain
1999
Gardens of stone El Manar Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
1997
Présences plastiques Rabat Hospital, Morocco
Three Moroccan painters National Museum of Women and the Arts, Washington D.C, USA
Exposition pour l'Algérie, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquart, Paris, France
1995
Casablanca, fragments d'imaginaire, IFC French Cultural Institute, Casablanca, Morocco
Damasco Gallery, Edimburgh, United-Kingdom
1994
Moroccan Exhibition, Disney Hall, Orlando, Florida, USA
1993
Cairo Art Biennal, Cairo, EgyptBibliography
Amina Benbouchta catalogs
2009
Amina Benbouchta, La surface et le coeur, text by Bernard Collet, Jean-Pierre Huguet Editor
Amina Benbouchta, catalogue Lisières et débordement, Villa des Arts ONA, Casablanca, Morocco
Amina Benbouchta, catalogue Espace Souffle, Casablanca, Morocco
