Abderrahmane Rahoule | Artist - African Arty Gallery

Address

30 rue Zahrat Aloualoua
20 000 Casablanca
Morocco

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Friday
11am-7pm
Saturday
11am-5pm

Socials

+212 687 222 614

Abderrahmane Rahoule, born in 1944 in the Derb Soltane, an emblematic district of Casablanca, developed an early interest in the fine arts, which were to become central to his life and career.
After completing a first cycle of higher education at the Beaux-arts de Casablanca, he completed his studies with a diploma at the École supérieure des Arts industriels et des Métiers d'art of Paris, at the height of the 1968 emulation movement.
He continued to develop his practical research during further training courses in the Netherlands and then in Czechoslovakia.
On his return to Casablanca, he began teaching at the Beaux-arts de Casablanca before taking over as director in 2003.
A committed and discreet artist, he is one of the rare visual artists of his generation to develop, with the same rigour and mastery, a dual practice as painter and sculptor, but also as theorist-pedagogue and artist, Abderrahman Rahoule creates anthropomorphic forms, often entwined, inspired by the architecture of Casablanca.

An active member of the Casablanca School Group, Rahoule is also an informed witness to the birth of contemporary Moroccan art in the 1960s.
In 2023-2024, Rahoule has been exhibited at the Tate St Yves Museum, the Sarjah Foundation and the Kunsthalle Museum, an itinerary exhibition curated by Morad Montazami, « The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and patterns for a post-colonial avant-garde 1962-1987 »

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Exhibitions & Awards

TRAINING
1962
Begins artistic training, École des Beaux-arts – Casablanca (Morocco) 1967
École des Arts et Métiers – Paris (France)
Ceramics workshop – Delft (Netherlands)
Earthenware workshop – (Czechoslovakia)

PROFESSIONAL CAREER
Assistant, Atelier de Céramique, École des Beaux-arts – Casablanca (Morocco) Teacher, École des Beaux-arts – Casablanca (Morocco)
1972-2004
Teacher, School of Fine Arts – Casablanca (Morocco)
2004-2017
Director, École des Beaux-arts – Casablanca (Morocco)

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2024
Galerie African Arty – Casablanca (Morocco)
2022
Retrospective, Galerie Le Sous-Sol – Agadir (Morocco)
2018
Farid Belkahia and the Casablanca School of Fine Arts 1962-1974, Farid Belkahia Museum – Marrakech (Morocco)
2013
Tribute to Leila Faraoui and Pauline de Mazières, Bab Rouah – Rabat (Morocco)
2007
Bab Rouah – Rabat (Morocco)
2006
Galerie Venise Cadre – Casablanca (Morocco)
2001
Au 9 – Casablanca (Morocco)Espace Marie Galita – Casablanca (Morocco)
1998
Galerie Bassamat – Casablanca (Morocco)
Galerie Le Portal – Québec (Canada)
Cervantes Institute – Casablanca (Morocco)
1997
Galerie al Manar – Casablanca (Morocco)
1994
Galerie Marsam – Rabat (Morocco)
1993
Musée des Oudayas – Rabat (Morocco)
Galerie Bassamat – Casablanca (Morocco)
1985
Galerie Anoual – Casablanca (Morocco)
1984
Galerie Nadar – Casablanca (Morocco)
1982
Galerie Alif BA – Casablanca (Morocco)
1981
Galerie Nadar – Casablanca (Morocco) Bab Rouah – Rabat (Morocco)

1980
Galerie Les Remparts – Bordeaux (France)
1978
Galerie L’œil – Rabat (Morocco)
1976
Galerie Nadar – Casablanca (Morocco) 1975
Galerie L’Atelier- Rabat (Morocco) 1974
Dar America – Casablanca (Morocco) 1967 – Leewarden (Netherlands)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Terre des Hommes, UM6P – Benguerir (Morocco)
2023
The Casablanca Art School, Platforms and patterns for a post-colonial avant-garde 1962-1987, Tate Modern – (United Kingdom)
2013
Galerie Bab Rouah – Rabat (Morocco)
2011
Revolution Biennial – Cairo (Egypt)
2008
Biennale of Painting – Cairo (Egypt)
Shashua Foundation – London (United Kingdom)
2007
Bab Rouah – Casablanca (Morocco)
2006
International Fine Arts Biennial – Tehran (Iran)
2004
Inauguration of the Akwas gallery – Azemmour (Morocco)
2003
Moroccan Contemporary Art, Juan Miro Foundation – Barcelona (Spain)
2002
Exhibition with Ahlam and Abdelkrim Ghattas, Galerie Art et Architecture – Casablanca (Morocco) 1994
Exhibition with Adballah Hariri, Espace al Wacety – Casablanca (Morocco) 1986
10 years of Revue al Assas, Musée des Oudayas – Rabat (Morocco)
1976
2nd Arab Biennial at Les Oudayas – Rabat (Morocco)
1975
Creation of a ceramic fresco – Casablanca (Morocco)
1970
Young French and Foreign Painters, Galerie des Beaux-arts – Paris (France) 1969
Festival Panafricain d’Alger – Algiers (Algeria)

AWARDS, MEDALS AND DISTINCTIONS
1990
3rd Prize at the Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Competition – Colorado (USA)
1988
Jury Prize at the International Sculpture Competition in Milwaukee – Wisconsin (USA)
1982
Gold medal at the Inter-Arab Painting Biennial – (Kuwait)