M’barek Bouhchichi

Born 1975. Akka, Morocco

Lives and works in Tahanaout, Morocco

M’barek Bouhchichi’s practice centres on the body as a site where personal experience, collective memory, and social perception intersect. Working across sculpture, drawing, painting, and installation, he engages with the visibility and representation of Black identities within Moroccan society. The politics and poetics of identity and corporeality are brought to the front. Isolated gestures, faces, imprints, and bodily forms recur throughout his work, functioning as partial presences that suggest absence, resilience, and community. These elements resist fixed narratives; instead, they invite shifting interpretations shaped by the viewer’s gaze. Through this approach, Bouhchichi examines how histories of representation, across visual culture, poetry and music, have influenced the ways bodies are seen, categorised, and imagined. His work opens a space for reflecting on identity, difference, and the politics of perception, where personal, collective and symbolic ramifications continually inform one another.

He graduated from the Centre Pédagogique Régional, Rabat, Morocco.

Bouhchichi’s works has been shown in several international renowned institutions and biennials, including the Sharjah Biennial 16 (2025), Sharjah, UAE; SAMoCA, Saudi Arabia; Institut des Cultures d’Islam, Paris, France; The São Paulo Biennial (2023), Brazil; Dak’art, 13th edition of the Biennial of Contemporary African Art (2018), Dakar, Senegal; Savvy Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; MUCEM, Marseille, France; Kulte, Rabat, Morocco; Palacio Cadaval, Evora, Portugal.

His works can be found in many prestigious collections of art, including the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE; The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Fondation H, Antananarivo, Madagascar; The University of Michigan Museum of Arts (UMMA), Michigan, USA; The Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco; Friends of the Arts in North Africa Foundation, California, USA; La Fondation CDG, Rabat, Morocco; The Mohammed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Morocco; Frac Corsica Collection, Corsica, France.