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A question of listening
By Tímea Junghaus
Selma Selman creates her poetry of the future from multiple generations of Roma heritage completed with her subjective family story and history from...
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5 questions for Salma Lahlou
By SCHIRN MAGAZIN
Salma Lahlou is an independent curator. Her exhibitions and research projects continuously engage with the CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL. We spoke with her...
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CURATORIAL TALK: CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL
By Madeleine de Colnet, Morad Montazami, Esther Schlicht und Mujah Maraini-Melehi
The curators, Madeleine de Colnet and Morad Montazami, talk to SCHIRN curator Esther Schlicht and filmmaker Mujah Maraini-Melehi about the background...
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Casablanca’s Art School and the Bauhaus heritage
By Maximilian Wahlich
The CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL revolutionized the Moroccan art scene and managed to liberate itself from its French colonial past. In some respects, it...
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The film to the exhibition: Casablanca Art School. A POSTCOLONIAL AVANT-GARDE 1962–1987
By SCHIRN MAGAZIN
What artists and teachers were the driving force behind the CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL? And what was so special about that new art movement? The film...
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The World’s Superfluous Elements
By Philipp Hindahl
Selma Selman’s art often revolves around recycling, something that places her in a long lineage of artistic transformations
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Hidden perspectives on the city (history) of Casablanca
By Juliet Jacques
The video series “School of Walking” by Bik van der Pol shows Casablanca from the perspective of contemporary artists and cultural producers - and...
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5 questions for Toni Maraini
By SCHIRN MAGAZIN
Toni Maraini arrived at the CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL in 1964 and created the first art history program on Moroccan art from the prehistoric past to the...
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Baby, you can drive my car
By Elena Schmidt
For many years now, the art world has had a (love) relationship with cars, be it as a way of representing speed or critical reflection on consumerism....
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The film to the exhibition: Selma Selman. Flowers of Life
By SCHIRN MAGAZIN
Only a few years ago, she boldly and confidently entered into the spotlight of the international art world. In this video interview, she talks about...
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Selma Selman and the elastic fabric of the Self
By Róna Kopeczky
SELMA SELMAN's artistic practice cannot be described as site- or situation-specific; rather, it seems to deal with the self and its constant...
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Now at the SCHIRN: CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL. A POSTCOLONIAL AVANT-GARDE 1962–1987
By Schirn Magazin
The Moroccan “New Wave”: The SCHIRN presents the influential art scene around the CASABLANCA ART SCHOOL in a first major exhibition in Germany.