Yasmine Hadni | Artist

Yasmine Hadni – Le baise – main, 2024

Yasmine Hadni was born in 1992 in Rabat, Morocco. Currently based in Casablanca, she trained in art across two continents, first earning a Diplôme National d’Art at Villa Arson in Nice before continuing her studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she obtained a Master in Fine Art. While painting remains at the core of her practice, Yasmine Hadni incorporates a variety of media—including video, drawing, sound, and printmaking—within a transdisciplinary approach.

In 2017, her solo exhibition Back to the Roots at Galerie Banque Populaire in Rabat highlighted her interest in family photographic archives as a narrative and aesthetic starting point. She recontextualizes archival images through painted compositions, blending memory and fiction, personal introspection and social commentary, as well as cinematic and pictorial references. Her work, showcased in venues such as Artorium and at the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, examines the emotional and social dynamics within Moroccan bourgeois families.

Yasmine Hadni offers a complex and nuanced exploration of human relationships that structure these familial spheres. Her compositions are both poetic and laden with ambiguities, with childhood serving as a central prism—used as a recurring conceptual tool.

In 2024, she was the second laureate of the Mustaqbal Prize by the TGCC Foundation, a major distinction in the Moroccan art scene. This recognition led her to join African Arty gallery the same year, cementing her status as one of the most promising emerging voices.