Art in Marrakech

Stella-Gallery was founded on a simple idea: a house is chosen like a work of art. Over the past decade Marrakech has become one of Africa’s leading art destinations, with MACAAL, the Montresso Art Foundation, the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair held each February at La Mamounia, and a growing scene of galleries and artists’ studios in the Medina and the countryside. These stories follow the artists, exhibitions and places that Stella de Bagneux visits, and the way art and homes meet in Marrakech.

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9 August 2026Maxence de Bagneux, ceramic artist and interior architect7 June 2025Art, encounters and inspiration in Tahanout7 April 2025Marrakech, a magnet for creative minds since the 1960s10 September 2024Twenty years of El Fenn, a Marrakech icon in the Medina12 February 2024A Sunday among Marrakech’s contemporary art venues24 January 2024Montresso Art Foundation and 1-54 Art Fair in Marrakech7 May 2023Le MAP, a new museum of ornaments in the Marrakech Medina6 February 20231-54 Contemporary African Art Fair 2023 at La Mamounia4 December 2022Villa Chergui, a Marrakech house turned into an ephemeral gallery6 November 2022Meeting the artist Joana Vasconcelos24 September 2022“Our Land Just Like a Dream” by Joel Andrianomearisoa at MACAAL12 September 2022Château La Coste, art and architecture in Provence27 August 2022Salim Currimjee’s house and art studio in Mauritius7 April 2022Omar Mahfoudi and the 1-54 Art Fair 2022 in Marrakech20 February 2022Meet the artist: Abderrahim Yamou in his Marrakech studio15 October 2021Amine El Gotaibi at the MCC Gallery in Marrakech21 May 2020Moving house in Marrakech and a sculpture by Maxence de Bagneux9 March 2020Soufiane Zarib, a concept store in the Medina23 February 2020“Have you seen a horizon lately?” at MACAAL, Marrakech11 January 2020A villa-gallery in Marrakech where art lives in every room27 December 2019A house-gallery in the countryside near the Atlas13 December 2019In the studio of artist Mohamed Mourabiti11 December 2019Artists’ studios and new homes in Marrakech