MATHAF FARID BELKAHIA MUSEUM
The Farid Belkahia Foundation inaugurated the “Farid Belkahia Museum” in Marrakech where we find the different periods and artistic influences of the latter's works.
The Farid Belkahia Museum offers a broad overview of the many artistic expressions and the variety of supports and materials used during the great career of this contemporary artist, as well as the realization of the artist's desire to share his art with generations. future.
The Farid Belkahia Foundation proposes, through this museum, to maintain the influence of Belkahia's works by maximizing their visibility, but also by encouraging research on their various influences and significant periods.
Speaking on this occasion, the founder and president of the Farid Belkahia Foundation, Rajae Benchemsi, moved to see the dream of the late artist come true through this exhibition including his works which have marked modern and contemporary art, added that the late had always thought that the perception of modernity necessarily passes through the assimilation of old values, hence his need to use traditional materials in his artistic works.
The Belkahia Foundation, born in March 2015 and comprising historians, researchers and exhibition curators, will quite naturally award annual prizes for excellence, scholarships for studies, research or support for the work of young creators but also to contribute to the organization of national and international exhibitions and the production of publications, catalogs and documentary films to ensure the sustainability of the work of the artist, Farid Belkahia.
The inaugural ceremony of the Farid Belkahia Museum took place in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Mohammed Amine Sbihi, the Wali of the Marrakech-Safi region, the President of the Arab World Institute. Mr. Jack Lang, Mr. Mehdi Qotbi, President of the National Museum Foundation of the Kingdom of Morocco. Many national and international personalities such as Gilles Kepel, representatives of the Mathaf museum: Art Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London and the Center Georges Pompidou, Paris responded, as well as great intellectuals such as Brahim Alaoui, Moulime Laaroussi, Jean-Hubert Martin and Hamid Triki.