From Abstraction to Feminism is a new exhibition dedicated to the pioneering modernist artist Malika Agueznay, opening at the gallery’s Casablanca space on 4 December 2025. This exhibition is curated by Kristi Jones and Kenza Amrouk.
Celebrated as one of Morocco’s most influential painters, engravers, and sculptors, Malika Agueznay occupies a singular place in the history of modern art in the Maghreb. Emerging in the late 1960s from the legendary Casablanca Art School, she stands alongside figures such as Farid Belkahia, Mohamed Melehi, and Mohamed Chabâa, while tracing a trajectory uniquely her own, as the first woman modernist in Morocco. Her practice expands the School’s formal experimentation through a personal engagement with memory, femininity, and the organic rhythms of nature.
From Abstraction to Feminism unfolds as a journey through an open landscape where Agueznay’s paintings, engravings, sculptures, and suspended installations invite viewers into a dialogue between matter, time, and an improbable biology of form.
Visitors are invited to encounter her paintings before moving into a constellation of suspended sculptures - vivid forms evoking suns, moons, and eclipses, where colour is freed from structure and moves with its own autonomy. The journey concludes inintimate universes that encourage contemplation and inward reflection, revealing the profound sensorial resonance of her work.
The show takes a fresh look at the artist's work, highlighting the richness of her practice through a scenography that plays with light, colour, and shape to create sensory and memorable experiences reflecting the essence of this major contemporary artist. Her work draws simultaneously from modernity and popular Moroccan traditions.
Discover the exhibition’s catalogue here.
