Yassine Balbzioui, contemporary artist based in Marrakech/Morocco, guest and provocateur in residence, is showing his embroidery works for the first time in Europe. Realised in Lucknow/India in 2024, the tapestry shown at Artist Residency Schloss Balmoral is another canvas for the cosmology of Yassine Balbzioui. The show (for free) is realised in collaboration with @neuerkunstvereinmittelrhein forthe festival Subversive Threads.
Yassine Balbzioui is a Moroccan multidisciplinary visual artist. Born in 1972, he graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-arts in Casablanca and Bordeaux. Essentially a painter and drawer, Yassine Balbzioui has developed, in a neo-expressionist vein, a body of works of great formal and semantic richness, in which the representation of human animality, most often in the guise of a mask, intersects with the notions of derision, idiocy and grotesque. Yassine Balbzioui has exhibited his work all over the world: Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid (Moroccan Trilogy), 13th Dakar Biennial, Manifesta 13 in Marseille, Iwalewahaus in Bayreuth, MACAAL Marrakech.
www.yassinebalbzioui.com