Fez — Casablanca is becoming the latest stop for “60 Years of Painting in Morocco,” with the national exhibition spreading across four cultural venues throughout October.
The Casablanca chapter begins October 3 at the Hassan II Mosque Media Library and continues there through October 17. It will expand to the Higher School of Fine Arts from October 6 to 25, followed by Galerie Nadar from October 7 to 30 and Mine d’Art gallery from October 8 to 28.
The multi-site format turns the exhibition into a journey through the city rather than a conventional presentation contained inside a single gallery.
The wider project was launched in Rabat in January by the Moroccan Union of Professional Visual Artists, with support from the Ministry of Youth, Culture and Communication. The Ministry said the national exhibition brings together more than 150 works representing pioneering artists and contemporary generations.
Six decades of Moroccan painting
“60 Years of Painting in Morocco” was conceived as a broad look at the development of Moroccan painting across different generations, artistic schools, and aesthetic movements.
Rather than presenting the history as a single linear tradition, the project places established names alongside younger artists to show how approaches to painting have changed over time.
The exhibition also looks at how Moroccan artists have engaged with abstraction, figuration, experimentation, and international artistic currents while developing individual languages rooted in different periods and experiences.
Its Casablanca stage follows the project’s earlier presentations as part of a national tour scheduled to include several Moroccan cities.
An exhibition that becomes an archive
Alongside the artworks, the project includes an art book documenting the exhibition, participating artists, and the different stops on its national journey.
Organizers have positioned the publication as a way of preserving a record of the initiative beyond the temporary life of the exhibitions themselves.
That archival dimension gives the project a purpose beyond celebration.
Morocco’s visual-art history is often told through individual artists, specific movements, or landmark exhibitions. A project spanning six decades creates an opportunity to place those stories next to one another and show the continuities and breaks between generations.
By dividing its Casablanca chapter among four venues, “60 Years of Painting in Morocco” is also bringing that history into different cultural spaces and audiences across the city.
The result is less a single exhibition than a month-long invitation to look at how Moroccan painting has evolved, remembered itself, and continued to change.
