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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

31/07/2026

☀️And that’s a wrap for the summer!

As we close our doors for the holiday, we want to thank you for being part of our journey this season. We wish you a summer filled with rest, joy, laughter, and beautiful moments with your loved ones. We’ll be back on September with exciting new programs. 🤍🌻

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28/07/2026

🪽On Artistic Freedom: Films and Conversation

Wednesday, 29 July
20:30 at LE 18 Marrakech

Join us for an evening exploring artistic freedom, creative practices, and the place of artists in society through three short films by El Mahdi Lyoubi programmed by Film W Glissa :

Marseille, 14 juillet (9’)
Qui fout le Zbeul? (13’)
Hors Cadre (18’43 »)

The screenings will be followed by a moderated conversation bringing together members of the Dardachabab collective, artist, cultural producer and sound engineer Marwa Belahbib, and a representative of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH).

The discussion will explore the legal, cultural, and social dimensions of artistic freedom, as well as the questions and challenges artists encounter when navigating freedom of expression today.

Stills from « Qui fout le Zbeul?! »

على الحرية الفنية: أفلام ونقاش

الأربعاء 29 يوليوز
20:30 ف LE 18

مرحبا بكم معنا فواحد الأمسية لي غادي نهضرو فيها على الحرية الفنية، الإبداع، وبلاصة الفنانين فالمجتمع، من خلال عرض ثلاثة أفلام قصيرة ديال المهدي ليوبي:

Marseille, 14 juillet (9’) Qui fout le Zbeul?! (13’) Hors Cadre (18’43”)

من بعد العروض، غادي يكون نقاش كيسيروه، بمشاركة أعضاء من كولكتيف دردشباب، الفنانة والمنتجة الثقافية مروى بالحبيب، وممثل(ة) عن الجمعية المغربية لحقوق الإنسان (AMDH).

فهاد النقاش غادي نهضرو على شنو كتعني الحرية الفنية اليوم، من الناحية القانونية، الثقافية والاجتماعية، وغادي نهضرو حتى على الأسئلة والتحديات اللي كيصادفوها الفنانين والفنانات ملي كيعبرّو بحرية على أفكارهم وأعمالهم.

لقطة من فيلم « Qui fout le Zbeul ?! »

18/07/2026

Songs of Opacity // أناشيد العتامة // ⵉⵣⵍⴰⵏ ⵏ ⵜⴰⵍⵍⴰⵙⵜ

23 - 25 July 2026
At LE 18

[For Arabic and Tamazight check pinned comments]

Entitled Songs of Opacity, this second iteration of the Complicity and Conspiracy in Film Translation program follows the program's first edition in Beirut in March 2025. It suggests the audio-visual medium as a space that can host the complex and nuanced interactions between the oral and the written. Rather than providing an unquestioned access to another language, the films in this edition focus the subtitle as a threshold of connection and meaning in unusual and unexpected ways.

Link in bio for detailed information on the program and the films.

This program is curated by Nour Ouayda in collaboration with LE 18 and Omar Berrada and is realized in the framework of NAAS’ curatorial fellowship 2025-2026.

Arabic translations: Mahammad Hoogla-Kalfat
Tamazight translations: Omar Moujane
Visual design: Meryem Fekhari

14/07/2026

ⵣ TIFINAGH ON SCREEN

An exhibition by Omar Idtnaine
Funded by NAAS NAAS Network 🔷 "شبكة "ناس

EXHIBITION OPENING
Thursday, 23ʳᵈ July 2026

6pm - 9pm
at LE 18 Marrakech

23.07 – 30.07.2026

“Tifinagh on Screen” is more than just a title; it is a statement of presence. The emergence of the first Amazigh film in 1991 was not a mere cinematic experiment, but a historic moment in which the region’s most ancient script became intertwined with the motion of image and sound. This exhibition, arising from an in-depth research project on “Reclaiming Archives as Counter-History” funded by NAAS (Network of Arab Alternative Screens), traces the fragile yet persistent trajectory of this cinema: born from individual initiatives, far from institutional support, yet able to carve out its own audience and memory.

From early films like “Tamghart Ourgh” to contemporary productions, the exhibition presents visual, audio, and textual documents that have long remained in the shadows. It pays tribute to the efforts of producers, directors, actors, and screenwriters whose work constitutes an essential chapter in Morocco’s cinematic and cultural history. Through posters, photographs, VHS and VCD covers, and never-before-seen archival materials, “Tifinagh on Screen” tells the story of cultural resistance and identity affirmation.

The exhibition also explores the production and distribution conditions of this parallel cinema, its technological evolution, the role of audiences and associations in its sustainability, and the current challenges it faces. It affirms that a Morocco open to itself is one that embraces the diversity of its cultures, without hierarchy among languages and memories, and that this diversity is an inexhaustible source of collective wealth.

12/07/2026

📢 OPEN CALL
RESIDENCY IN LISBON FOR MOROCCAN ARTISTS

As part of the cross-residency program between HANGAR, Lisbon and LE 18, Marrakech, HANGAR will host a Moroccan artist-in-residence in Lisbon for one month.

The residency at HANGAR is open to artists from a range of disciplines, including visual arts, performance, photography and video. Applicants must be individual artists residing in Morocco and professionally active in the arts.

We encourage applications from artists eager to bridge national and international viewpoints through cross-cultural dialogue and engagement with the local context.

Full details and the application form are available in the call document (Link in Bio).

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➤ APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15th, 2026.

➤ WHEN: One month, 16 November to 16 December 2026.

➤ FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
A stipend of 800 euros will be provided to cover living expenses related to the stay. Return flights between Morocco and Lisbon are covered, and administrative support for the visa application is provided. The selected artist is responsible for their insurance, meals, and production costs.

➤ SELECTION PROCESS:
A joint committee of LE 18 and HANGAR will assess the applications.

➤ APPLICATION:
The full call and the application form link are in the linked document (Link in Bio). The application must be written in English.

26/05/2026

ATELIER
Création visuelle & initiation à la musique interactive
avec KYF!

MERCREDI 3 JUIN
14:00 📍LE 18

KYF! vous invite à un atelier transdisciplinaire, un espace de rencontre, d’expérimentation et d’échange autour de la création visuelle, de la musique et de la technologie. À travers le Mandala comme fil conducteur, l’atelier se déploie en plusieurs temps : la découverte d’un jeu vidéo artistique où son et image se répondent, un temps de création collective, l’intégration de vos dessins dans le jeu via scan et codage, et enfin une initiation à un instrument interactif et démonstration avec les musiciens de KYF!

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KYF! est un groupe transdisciplinaire de Bayonne qui réunit musique, arts visuels et technologie dans des espaces qu’ils appellent des dômes.

Les places sont limitées. 🔗 Inscription via le lien en bio.

S2 © Mathias_Bracho
S4 © Julia de la Guerre

24/05/2026

Eid Mubarak 🐑 From all of our team at LE 18, we wish you a beautiful Eid al-Adha surrounded by love, family, and blessings 🤍
LE 18 will be closed for the holiday and will reopen on June 2nd.

📸 Jalal Bouhsain .see

19/05/2026

🔗 FRAGMENTED IMAGES:
Mokhtabar

With Yassine Sellam, Salaheddine Elbouaaichi & the youth of Dar Bellarj
As part of Mai de la Photo

WORKSHOP PRESENTATION
Saturday, 23ʳᵈ May 2026
6 pm at Dar Bellarj

LE 18 in collaboration with Dar Bellarj, as part of Mai de la Photo, present the results of Mokhtabar, a 3-day film development workshop with Salaheddine Elbouaaichi and Yassine Sellam. Mokhtabar is an invitation to the youth of Dar Bellarj to explore their environment through a sensitive and attentive approach to image, while experimenting with film photography mediums and developing an observant eye toward places, people and everyday gestures. What emerged is a body of work that traces their surroundings, personal memories and the places where the two meet, building together a collective memory on the trajectory between LE 18 and Dar Bellarj.

18/05/2026

🔗 FRAGMENTED IMAGES:
Home Away From Home

An exhibition by Hiba Dahibi
As part of Mai de la Photo

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Friday, 22ⁿᵈ May 2026
7.30 pm at LE 18
↳ Zine Launch

From zine to exhibition. Join us in a conversation with Hiba Dahibi around her project Home Away From Home, the conversation will move through format as a question of proximity: how the passage from zine to exhibition changes not just the scale of the work but also our relationship to it. Home Away From Home was born as a zine during Hiba’s residency in Marseille, a project that traces a photographic wandering through grief, between sorrow, memory, and the present. Like an autofiction, it weaves together fragments of images and text without seeking a narrative, but holding onto what resists coherence.

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Hiba Dahibi (b. 2001, Rabat) is a Moroccan photographer and filmmaker based in Salé. Her practice constructs personal and poetic narratives of place, memory, and belonging. Evolving from landscape photography into experimental essay work, she often tells human stories through absence, traces, textures, and spaces becoming carriers of memory. Her images explore immobility as a form of resistance to acceleration, remaining attentive to silence, light, and the subtle interactions between bodies and their environments.

Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions at the Mohammed VI Foundation for Education in Rabat, the National Museum of Photography in Rabat, and the 1-54 art fair. She participated in the DABAPHOTO 6 festival at LE 18 Marrakech. In 2025 she completed a residency at La Friche Belle de Mai in Marseille.

09/05/2026

🔗 FRAGMENTED IMAGES:
Home Away From Home

An exhibition by Hiba Dahibi
As part of Mai de la Photo

OPENING
Saturday, 16ᵗʰ May 2026
4 pm at LE 18

In this project, Hiba Dahibi takes us on a poignant photographic journey into the heart of mourning: how do we go on living with grief, memories, and the present? On her second foray into the exhibition format, her work combines fragments of photographic and textual memories that first took shape as a zine during her residency in Marseille last spring.

This autofictional form, it is all about this fragile balance, the tension between distance and closeness, the feelings, memories of what we want to keep as well as what we are trying to abandon. Familiar places become painful places, while the elsewhere becomes a land of welcome.

What emerges are bits and pieces: moments, textures and absences. A kind of emotional residue that needs no complete story to exist, where coherence is deliberately fractured to evoke the instability of memory.

Address

18, Derb El Ferrane/quartier Riad Laarouss/Médina
Marrakesh
40000

Website

http://le18marrakech.com/

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