Marrakech – La Galerie NoBorder is now home to Banksy Universe Marrakech – “Unauthorized Exhibition,” a permanent immersive exhibition conceived as a tribute to the work of Banksy, one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of contemporary urban art.
Spread across nearly 300 square meters, the exhibition presents a 40-minute immersive journey through dozens of works drawn from private collections.
The scenography combines hand-painted mural reproductions executed directly on the walls, interactive and immersive installations, and video sequences.
Together, they form a visual narrative structured as a chronological progression through Banksy’s universe, inviting visitors to slow down, observe, and confront the layered meanings embedded in the images.
The exhibition explores the full range of Banksy’s visual language: a style instantly recognizable, where irony meets poetry and apparent simplicity conceals dense symbolic charge.
His anonymity, inseparable from his work, reinforces the universality of his message, allowing it to cross borders and cultures without dilution.
The works function as mirrors, reflecting systems of domination, political contradictions, and fixed narratives back at the viewer.
According to the organizers, Banksy’s practice operates by overturning Western ironies, shifting perspectives, and unsettling certainties.
In Morocco, a land marked by sacred architecture, ancestral gestures, and an embodied, quiet spirituality, this approach finds a singular echo. The encounter between Banksy’s visual provocations and the Moroccan context creates a space where critique and contemplation coexist.
The visit continues beyond the exhibition rooms with The Banksy Rooftop, an extension organizers created as a contemplative pause.
Visitors can linger over a coffee or tea in the sun, allowing the experience to settle before re-entering the rhythm of the city.
NoBorder emphasizes that the abolition of boundaries has been central to its identity since its inception.
Hosting an unauthorized Banksy exhibition is presented not as an act of appropriation, but as a continuation of a mission to create a space where paths intersect and voices without fixed territory can be heard.
In this sense, Banksy Universe Marrakech aligns naturally with an oeuvre that has always engaged with walls, lines, and separations.
Interested? Here’s the details
- Full price: MAD 100
- Reduced rate for Moroccans and residents
- Free for children under 12
- Note: it’s not yet adapted for visitors with reduced mobility, but a specially adapted space will be open at a later date
