Marrakech – Casablanca’s L’Atelier 21 gallery will host a new solo exhibition by Moroccan painter Nabil El Makhloufi from September 30 to November 1.
The show, titled “Résonances,” marks the artist’s fourth collaboration with the gallery. The opening will take place on September 30 at 7 p.m.
El Makhloufi’s figurative paintings, rooted in both realism and imagination, reflect on themes of belonging, exile, migration, and human existence.
His canvases often depict crowds, silence, and spaces of transition -evoking both collective memory and personal search.
In the exhibition catalogue, philosopher and art critic Franziska Weiler describes the artist’s unique approach, stating, “El Makhloufi captures ordinary situations, transforms them, and reveals their existential weight.”
“His recurring motif of the crowd becomes a meditation on movement, between waiting and separation, between closeness and solitude. His figures are immersed in colors that create an atmosphere of silence, at once familiar and unsettling.”
El Makhloufi’s works are part of several major public and private collections, including the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE,) the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) in Morocco, the Norval Foundation (South Africa,) Société Générale (France,) Saham Bank (Morocco,) and The BAT Campus Galerie Collection (Germany.)
