Mehdi-Georges Lahlou
Born in 1991 in France
Mehdi-Georges Lahlou (Les Sables-d’Olonne, 1983) is a French and Moroccan visual artist, performance artist and theatre director. He lives and works between Paris, Brussels and Casablanca. He trained at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire and obtained a PhD in Art in the Netherlands in 2010.
In 2014, he took part in the first edition of Les Réalisateurs, a postgraduate programme in Art and Business conceived and directed by artist Fabrice Hyber, in partnership with Audencia Business School and ESBANM. From 2017 to 2020, Mehdi-Georges Lahlou was an associate artist at CDN Normandie–Rouen. From 2019 to 2020, he was artist-in-residence at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Netherlands.
His solo exhibitions include À l’ombre des palmiers, Le Delta, Namur, Belgium; La Palmeraie des Mémoires, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris, France (2025); A Botanical Conversation, SPACES, Cleveland, USA (2024); Comme un baiser, comme une odeur de crème, de couscous et d’ostie, Les Jardiniers de Montrouge, Montrouge, France (2024); La Conférence des palmiers, Le Parvis, Tarbes, France (2023); extra, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium (2023); The Kent State Museum, Kent, Ohio, USA (2020); Et si rien ne prend racine dans cette oasis, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France (2019); 72 (Virgins) in Motion and Aria, Museo de Arte Colonial, Havana, Cuba (2019); 75, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Bucharest, Romania (2019); Behind the Garden, curated by Simon Njami, Le Botanique Museum, Brussels, Belgium (2017); I Did Not Have to Cross the Sea, Merton D. Simpson Gallery, New York, USA (2015); Even the Dust Remains, In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres, Belgium.
His work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions, including the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal (2023); Mucem, Marseille, France (2022); Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand, France; the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL), Marrakech, Morocco (2019); the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (2018); the William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, USA (2017); and the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France (2016).
Acquisitions
FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
FRAC Haute-Normandie, Rouen, France
FRAC Pays de la Loire, Nantes, France
RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Musée des Beaux-Arts d’Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium