Meriam Benkirane
- Nationality
- Moroccan
- Based
- Casablanca, Morocco
- Born
- 1984, Casablanca, Morocco
- Practice
- Painting, murals, drawing, sculpture
Biography
Meriam Benkirane is an artist based in Casablanca, where she was born in 1984. She works in painting, murals, drawing, sculpture, installation and digital art. Trained as an interior architect, she paints interlocking geometric forms, such as tubes, slotted bars, plates and gears, gathered into floating structures with modelled light and shade.
Her pictures draw on the city and on the way technology shapes daily life. Interlude, her 2024 solo show at La Galerie 38 in Casablanca, marked her move from acrylic to oil and used sfumato to soften contours. For Factory of Hope (2026), at the gallery's Marrakech space, she moved away from composing on screen and built her oils in slow layers.
Benkirane held the solo exhibition Reflect at La Galerie 38 in Casablanca in 2022. Her murals include a 13 by 11 metre wall for the Jidar festival in Rabat in 2023 and a cabin at the Piscine Molitor in Paris in 2024. In 2026 she took part in Écouter l'eau, organised by La Galerie 38 with the Fondation BMCI. Her work is in the collections of the Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat and MACAAL in Marrakech.
CV
Solo exhibitions
- 2026Factory of Hope, La Galerie 38, Marrakech
- 2024Interlude, La Galerie 38, Casablanca
- 2022Reflect, La Galerie 38, Casablanca
Group exhibitions
- 2026Écouter l'eau, La Galerie 38 with Fondation BMCI, Casablanca
- 2026Géométrie marocaine, La Galerie 38, Geneva
- 2025Group exhibition, La Galerie 38, Casablanca
- 2024Group exhibition, La Galerie 38, Marrakech
- 2023The Flavor of Colors, La Galerie 38, Marrakech
- 2022Group exhibition, La Galerie 38, Casablanca
- 2019Group exhibition, Cactus Art Space, Casablanca
- 2019Group exhibition, Sun Festival, Marrakech
Selected exhibitions
- 2024Mural on a cabin, Piscine Molitor, Paris (mural)
- 2023Mural, Jidar Rabat Street Art Festival, Rabat (mural)
- 2021Mural, WE Casablanca Festival, Casablanca (mural)
- 2019Mural, Casablanca (mural)
Art fairs
- 2026Africa Basel, Basel (fair)
- 20261-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech (fair)
- 20251-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Marrakech (fair, with La Galerie 38)
- 2023KunstRAI Art Amsterdam, Amsterdam (fair, with La Galerie 38)
Public collections
- MACAAL, Museum of Contemporary African Art Al Maaden, Marrakech
- Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rabat
Documents
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