18, derb el ferrane

18, derb el ferrane LE 18 est un riad culturel pluridisciplinaire, un lieu de rencontres & d'échanges, un espace de vie, de création & de réflexion, et une résidence d'artiste

Fondé en septembre 2013, Le 18 est une plateforme indépendante de création, de diffusion et d'échanges culturels et artistiques. Notre objectif est double: soutenir les artistes emergents en accompagnant leur recherche à travers les residences et en diffusants leur projets au sein de l'espace par des expositions, presentations, rencontres avec le public. Nous souhaitons également connecter les scè

nes culturelles marrakchies à celles de l'international, et permettre aux artistes étrangers d’intervenir à Marrakech. La démarche se veut ouverte et evolutive de sorte que chaque intervention contribue à redéfinir l'esprit du lieu tout en poursuivant son engagement vis à vis de la création. Situé à Riad Laarouss, un quartier de l'ancienne médina de Marrakech, Le 18 (s’)offre une proximité avec les modes de vie traditionnels de Marrakech, et tire de ce voisinage sa raison d'être: nous souhaitons contribuer à libérer ce qui, dans la Médina, peut inspirer création, en la confrontant aux démarches des artistes qui y déploieront leurs regards et leurs questionnements.

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Started in 2013, Le 18 is an independent creative platform and exhibition space promoting artistic and cultural exchange.We have two main objectives: Supporting emerging artists with research and residency programs, and making their projects known through exhibitions, presentations, and public gatherings.We also hope to connect the Marrakchi cultural landscape with various art scenes around the world by inviting international artists to work in Marrakech. Our approach is open and constantly evolving, allowing each intervention to contribute to the essential spirit of the space, which at the same time reinforces our commitment to fostering creativity. Situated in Riad Laarouss, an area in Marrakech's ancient medina, Le 18 not only offers (itself) a close proximity with the city's traditional way of life, but also draws its inspiration and raison d'être from its surroundings. We aim to bring the inspiring qualities of the medina into closer contact with the various approaches, practices, and reflections of invited artists.

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فضاء للاجتماع و التبادل، مفتوح لجميع الممارسات الفنية و التقافية
مساحة للحياة و الابداع
مختبر للافكار
مقهى ادبي
غرف الظيافة

Reservations for Ahmed Ben Attia’s outdoor performance are now open — RSVP by email @ rsvpLE18@gmail.com🎭 OPUS NIGRUM [ر...
27/11/2025

Reservations for Ahmed Ben Attia’s outdoor performance are now open — RSVP by email @ [email protected]

🎭 OPUS NIGRUM [رثاء الشهيد] by AHMED BEN ATTIA
OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE
With Juan Navarro, Maxi Labrador & María Moncada.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
5:00 PM

📍Meeting Point: School Jbel Lakhder (Near Rmila)
🕔 Meeting Time: 5:00PM - Départure 5:15PM
● Please note that the performance begins on the bus, and the direction will be revealed throughout the experience. (approx. 100 min in total)
● Languages: Arabic / English

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An itinerant and immersive performance by Tunisian artist Ahmed Ben Attia, presented for the first time in Marrakech. Half dream, half ritual, the piece unfolds as a symbolic descent into darkness, guiding the audience through a journey between worlds — life and death, memory and oblivion, the sacred and its own undoing. 

What begins as a simple ride becomes a passage between worlds — life and death, the sacred and the profane, the visible and the whispered. Through poetic fragments, visions, Quranic echoes, and cries of rebellion, Opus Nigrum unfolds as a dark meditation on transition, loss, and the possibility of faith in a time without God.
The project is supported by Junta de Andalucía et Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Reserve your seat at [email protected] — just send us your name, phone number and the number of spots you need.
If you can no longer attend, please let us know by email.

Reservations for Ahmed Ben Attia’s outdoor performance are now open — RSVP by email @ rsvpLE18@gmail.com🎭 OPUS NIGRUM [ر...
27/11/2025

Reservations for Ahmed Ben Attia’s outdoor performance are now open — RSVP by email @ [email protected]

🎭 OPUS NIGRUM [رثاء الشهيد] by AHMED BEN ATTIA
OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE
With Juan Navarro, Maxi Labrador & María Moncada.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
5:00 PM

📍Meeting Point: School Jbel Lakhder (Near Rmila)
🕔 Meeting Time: 5:00PM - Départure 5:15PM
● Please note that the performance begins on the bus, and the direction will be revealed throughout the experience. (approx. 100 min in total)
● Languages: Arabic / English

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An itinerant and immersive performance by Tunisian artist Ahmed Ben Attia, presented for the first time in Marrakech. Half dream, half ritual, the piece unfolds as a symbolic descent into darkness, guiding the audience through a journey between worlds — life and death, memory and oblivion, the sacred and its own undoing. 

What begins as a simple ride becomes a passage between worlds — life and death, the sacred and the profane, the visible and the whispered. Through poetic fragments, visions, Quranic echoes, and cries of rebellion, Opus Nigrum unfolds as a dark meditation on transition, loss, and the possibility of faith in a time without God.
The project is supported by Junta de Andalucía et Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Reserve your seat at [email protected] — just send us your name, phone number and the number of spots you need.
If you can no longer attend, please let us know by email.

Visual credits : Anouar Khalifi, « Ghurba », 2020

⚡ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - LAURENCE MERLEMIRAMAR RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU MAROC, BEAUX-A...
23/11/2025

⚡ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - LAURENCE MERLE

MIRAMAR RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH L’INSTITUT FRANÇAIS DU MAROC, BEAUX-ARTS DE MARSEILLE, DOS MARES

During her residency at LE 18, Laurence is developing a project with scientific, social, and ecological dimensions, extending alchemical research initiated with ceramist Olivier Zol. She explores the dialogue between ancestral techniques and resource ethics, from the still to a solar furnace. Collaborating with Hassan Chehouani, professor-researcher in optics and thermal energy, she experiments with capturing the sun through video and observes solar furnaces and GSM palm trees as sculptural tools.

Her practice revolves around video, ceramics and sculpture. Laurence questions through her work human behaviors and (mis)understandings, examining our use of material and intellectual resources through artisanal techniques such as still making, enameling, and aluminum casting.

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Based between Toulon and Marseille, Laurence Merle earned a DNA from the Haute École des Arts du Rhin, completed training in forest management, and then earned a DNSEP from the École des Beaux-Arts de Marseille. She is a member of the Mastic collective in Marseille and is actively involved in the community life of the Metaxu Art Center in Toulon.

S1. 📸 Xianne Han
S2 & 4. 📸 Jean-Christophe Lett
S3. 📸 Cécile Braneyre
S5 & 6. 📸 Laurence Merle

19/11/2025

🎭 OPUS NIGRUM [رثاء الشهيد] by AHMED BEN ATTIA
OUTDOOR PERFORMANCE
With Juan Navarro, Maxi Labrador & María Moncada.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4
5:30 PM

📍Meeting Point: School Jbel Lakhder
🕔 Meeting Time: 4:30PM (To be confirmed following participation)

● Please note that the performance begins on the bus, and the direction will be revealed throughout the experience. (approx. 100 min in total)
● Languages: Arabic / English

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An itinerant and immersive performance by Tunisian artist Ahmed Ben Attia, presented for the first time in Marrakech. Half dream, half ritual, the piece unfolds as a symbolic descent into darkness, guiding the audience through a journey between worlds — life and death, memory and oblivion, the sacred and its own undoing.

What begins as a simple ride becomes a passage between worlds — life and death, the sacred and the profane, the visible and the whispered. Through poetic fragments, visions, Quranic echoes, and cries of rebellion, Opus Nigrum unfolds as a dark meditation on transition, loss, and the possibility of faith in a time without God.
The project is supported by Junta de Andalucía et Ayuntamiento de Madrid.

Reservation link will soon be available in the Linktree in our Bio.

📢⚡ INTERNSHIP CALLContemporary Art and Cultural Practice.We’re looking for talented and engaged individuals to join our ...
13/11/2025

📢⚡ INTERNSHIP CALL
Contemporary Art and Cultural Practice.

We’re looking for talented and engaged individuals to join our team! The position is expected to begin around January 2026.

To apply, please use the form linked in our profile via Linktree.

🌳Rencontre et lecture musicale du conte Yemoley et Yemoh sous l’arbre à PalabresSAMEDI 15 NOVEMBRE 202518h30 📍LE 18Yemol...
10/11/2025

🌳Rencontre et lecture musicale du conte Yemoley et Yemoh sous l’arbre à Palabres

SAMEDI 15 NOVEMBRE 2025
18h30 📍LE 18

Yemoley et Yemoh sont un couple de jumeaux qui vivent dans un village en harmonie avec la nature. Ils ne chassent ni ne pêchent et vivent selon les préceptes que leur ont enseignés leurs ancêtres. En accueillant des personnes étrangères à leur village, leur mode de vie va basculer. La relation en symbiose avec la nature va se dérégler et provoquer une tragédie.
Obligés de fuir pour survivre, la sœur et le frère tentent de s’adapter à un mode de vie qui n’est pas le leur : celui de la ville où la relation entre l’Homme et la nature est inexistante. Forcés de nouveau à s’exiler, ils continueront leur quête, guidés par leurs ancêtres, afin de trouver un morceau de terre où ils pourront reconstruire une nouvelle vie.
Mais la cupidité de l’Homme n’est jamais loin, et le couple de jumeaux, qui produit désormais des ressources en abondance issues de la terre, sera de nouveau la proie de toutes les convoitises. Yemoley et Yemoh, forts de leur exil, trouveront-ils la force nécessaire pour affronter ces nouveaux dangers ? L’amour et l’empathie peuvent-elles être des armes suffisantes dans ce combat moral ?

Un conte à partir de 7 ans.

Yemoley et Yemoh sous l’arbre à Palabres, Reuben Yemoh Odoi (auteur) et Nassim Azarzar (illustrateur), éditée par Sarrazines & Co en partenariat avec l’association The Minority Globe

🪨 OPEN STUDIO & PERFORMANCE “Le brame du sol” With Jenny Abouav FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 20257:30 pm - Open Studio8:00 pm - ...
04/11/2025

🪨 OPEN STUDIO & PERFORMANCE “Le brame du sol”
With Jenny Abouav

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2025
7:30 pm - Open Studio
8:00 pm - Performance
At LE 18

Jenny Abouav invites us to discover the work she developed in situ during her residency at LE 18. Her in-depth research and experiments around gestures, sound, and materials have unfolded into sculptures and a performance that pulses with the ecological tensions of soil and climate.

Abouav’s work explores the fragile dialogue between body and landscape: cracked earth mirrors cracked skin, while rammed earth, winds, light, and stone act as co-performers. Using honeycomb kraft paper, she investigates how matter holds memory, echoing desert terrains between M’Hamid and Ouarzazat.

Join us for a unique evening starting with the Open Studio at 7:30 pm followed by the Performance at 8:00 pm and ending at 8:45 pm.

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In Partnership with Institut Français du Maroc

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👋 Officially closed for the summer break!LE 18 team wishes you a joyful, restful holiday, filled with laughter, and time...
10/08/2025

👋 Officially closed for the summer break!

LE 18 team wishes you a joyful, restful holiday, filled with laughter, and time well spent with family and loved ones. We’ll be back in September with your favourite bookstore and a fresh new lineup of programs! 🤍✨

📸 Internet Archive - مكتبة الأطفال والناشئة، الحديث عن أيام الإجازة

⚡️BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO × LAILA HIDALaila Hida is participating in the 36th Sao Paulo Biennale (), titled “Not All Travell...
06/08/2025

⚡️BIENAL DE SÃO PAULO × LAILA HIDA

Laila Hida is participating in the 36th Sao Paulo Biennale (), titled “Not All Travellers Walk Roads–Of Humanity as Practice.” The biennial, which takes its title from the poem ‘Da calma e do silêncio’ (Of calm and silence) by Afrobrazilian poet Conceição Evaristo, will examine how humans understand and engage with each other. The 36th Bienal de São Paulo will take place from September 6, 2025, to January 11, 2026, at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion.

Laila Hida will present Sange Khara, a new video installation and chapter of her long-form project Le Voyage du Phoenix. The project excavates the constructed imaginaries of the oasis from colonial travel writing and orientalist cinema to contemporary tourism, speculative landscaping, and urban ornamentation. Through image, sound, and spatial assemblage, it traces the sedimented layers of myth, desire, and appropriation embedded in this replicated and aestheticized territory.

This edition is curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (), supported by Alya Sebti (), Anna Roberta Goetz (), Thiago de Paula Souza, Keyna Eleison () and Henriette Gallus.

📸 S1:
S2 & 3: Sange Khara, Laila Hida, 2025
S4: Into the Maw of the Spectacle, Laila Hida, 2024
S5 & S6: Le voyage du Phoenix, Jeu de Paume, 2025

⚡️ARTISTE EN RÉSIDENCE - OUMAYMA ABOUZID SOUALI En partenariat avec Miramar, Réseau méditerranéen pour les jeunes artist...
05/08/2025

⚡️ARTISTE EN RÉSIDENCE - OUMAYMA ABOUZID SOUALI

En partenariat avec Miramar, Réseau méditerranéen pour les jeunes artistes et Dos Mares, centre de recherche en art à Marseille.

Oumayma Souali Abouzid est une artiste originaire du Rif. Son travail explore les liens entre mémoire territoriale, écologies végétales et gestes ancestraux à travers installations, performances et archives sensibles. À Dos Mares, elle développera une enquête artistique autour du cèdre, arbre symbole de résistance, en tissant un dialogue sensoriel entre les mémoires du Rif et celles de Marseille, ville-miroir méditerranéenne.

Diplômée de l’Institut National des Beaux-Arts de Tétouan, Oumayma cherche à créer des ponts entre l’intime et l'universel, en mêlant le corps, la voix, l’image et la mémoire. Elle a été en résidence artistique, notamment à Daret Résidence à Casablanca et à Rif Résidence de L’Appartement 22. Elle a également exposé son travail dans des expositions collectives: à L’Appartement 22, Artiste Book Fair au Caire et d’autres.

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Miramar est un réseau méditerranéen d’acteur·rice·s académiques, artistiques et culturels porté par les École(s) du Sud en partenariat avec un ensemble de structures artistiques méditerranéennes et Dos Mares à Marseille, qui vise à soutenir le développement professionnel des jeunes diplômé·e·s, artistes et travailleur·euse·s de l’art, et à créer des opportunités d’échanges culturels basés sur la solidarité, la réciprocité et l’hospitalité.

En 2025, ce programme de résidence est financé par l’Institut français du Maroc, l’Institut français d’Algérie, l’Institut français de Tunisie, Dos Mares et le réseau École(s) du Sud.

🐚 TAKHAMT Shelter, a Sea of Stories OPEN STUDIOWith Janneke Raaphorst, Malika Eloualy, and the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bel...
16/07/2025

🐚 TAKHAMT
Shelter, a Sea of Stories

OPEN STUDIO
With Janneke Raaphorst, Malika Eloualy,
and the Gifted Mothers of Dar Bellarj

FRIDAY, JULY 18
7.30 PM - 10 PM
At LE 18

TAKHAMT means shelter in Tamazight, the mother tongue of Moroccan nomads.

This project is a collaboration of Dutch Textile Artist Janneke Raaphorst with Malika Eloualy Moroccan artist/researcher focused on nomad culture.

Janneke and Malika engaged in workshops with Les Mamans Douées, facilitated by Dar Bellarj/ Fondation Susanna Biedermann. These workshops focused on female empowerment through crafting. The Gifted Mothers who participated created a library of their personal stories, crafted into textile booklets and they collaborated on assembling a tent as a safe space for sharing stories.

This tent is made by assembling several rugs, each of which has a story to tell, and comes from a house or region.

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Janneke Raaphorst is an artist and designer from the Netherlands. As a textile wizard she works with sourcing material and its stories, embodiment through craft and infusing experience with meaning through ritual and storytelling. She is currently an artist-in-residence at LE 18 in Marrakech, with support from the Dutch Embassy in Morocco and Mondriaan fonds voucher kunstenaar met kind.

💧🪄 GRAPH(ECO)LOGY - Graphic Design Month1ˢᵗ Edition Programme [Herrek L’ma Yban L’aatshan!]*At KIOSK Tangier15.07 — 03.0...
15/07/2025

💧🪄 GRAPH(ECO)LOGY - Graphic Design Month
1ˢᵗ Edition Programme [Herrek L’ma Yban L’aatshan!]*

At KIOSK Tangier
15.07 — 03.08 2025

Graph(eco)logy is a month-long project that opens a time-space to explore graphic design as a language of reflection and inquiry. It seeks to challenge and disrupt the conventional framing of design as merely a commercial tool, particularly within SWANA contexts and more broadly within global discourse.

For this first edition, we drew from the Moroccan proverb: “Herrek L’ma Yban L’aatshan”
Literally: “Stir the water, and the thirsty will appear”*. This saying became both a metaphor and a call, emerging from a shared urgency to confront the tension between our roles as creative thinkers and our position as tools for ex*****on.

Featuring Ali T. As'ad, Fatima-Ezzahra El Khammas, Hicham Bouzid, Kimiā Collective, Kwamé Omari, Naïma Ben Ayed, Sarah Saleh, Sophia Alami, and Yvon Langué.

Graph(eco)logy is a project jointly organised by Think Tangier and LE 18 Marrakech.

Curation and Graphic Design by Meryem Fekhari and Kamal Daghmoumi .

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