BIOGRAPHIE

Mohamed Thara est né en 1972 à Fez au Maroc, il vit et travaille entre Bordeaux en France et Fez au Maroc. Artiste pluridisciplinaire, il est titulaire d’un diplôme national supérieur d’expression plastique de l’école supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux (DNSEP), il est docteur en esthétique et théorie de l’art à l’Université de Bordeaux Montaigne. Formé aux techniques photographiques à l’école de l’Institut National de l’Audiovisuel de Paris (Ina sup) et à l’école de cinéma professionnelle Arscipro à Paris. Peintre, photographe, vidéaste et performeur aux talents multiples, il cherche à étendre les limites de la peinture avec une œuvre picturale très personnelle qui interroge l’ambiguïté de la représentation. Ses performances questionnent le « vivre ensemble » et confèrent à l’image la fonction d’analyser le monde dans lequel nous vivons. À travers ses vidéos entre tension et équilibre, il fait naître et mourir, il interroge l’imminence de la mort pour comprendre la fragilité de la vie. Son œuvre photographique contient une promesse d’écriture rituelle, une pensée pertinemment décochée au monde, un projet global et critique de la société par l’image en mouvement qui soulève de nombreuses questions : l’histoire, la mémoire, le mal, l’identité, la douleur, le chaos... Mohamed Thara a participé à de nombreuses expositions à travers le monde comme à l’exposition collective Jeune Peinture au Grand Palais, Paris (1999), à l’exposition Mutation au CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux (2001), au Musée ZKM à Karlsruhe, Allemagne (2017), au Musée d’Art Moderne de Rio Janeiro, Brésil (2017), à la Biennale de Kochi Musiris à Kerala, Inde (2017), à la Biennale d’Architecture de Venise, Italie (2018), aux Rencontres de Bamako, la Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, Mali (2019), à la 13e Biennale de La Havane à Cuba (2019), à la 14e Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain à Dakar, Sénégal (2022). En 2020, il présente une rétrospective de ses films vidéos au Festival International du Film au City College à New York et en 2023 au Raleigh Studio de Hollywood à Los Angeles, États- Unis. La même année, il participe à l’exposition Cigarreras au MACA, Musée d’art contemporain d’Alicante en Espagne et à l’exposition Glocalities au centre d’art contemporain de Villa Kolla organisé par l’Université de Péloponnèse à Patras en Grèce. Ses œuvres ont été acquises par plusieurs collectionneurs privés au Maroc, en France et à l’étranger et ses films ont remporté de nombreux prix.

Mohamed Thara est représenté par la Galerie 38 à Casablanca (Maroc) et Jane Lombard Gallery à New York (États-Unis)

BIOGRAPHY

Mohamed Thara was born in 1972 in Fez, Morocco. He lives and works between Bordeaux in France, and Fez in Morocco. As a multidisciplinary artist, he holds a National Diploma (DNSEP) in Visual Arts a Master’s degree from the Ecole supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux in France.  After having trained in Paris in the different films and photography technics, first, at INA SUP (Audiovisual National Institute) and then at Arscipro (Professional Film School). Mohamed Thara is a Doctor in Aesthetics and Art Theory (Ph.D.) from Bordeaux-Montaigne University in France. Painter, photographer, video artist and multi-talented performer, he tries to extend the boundaries of painting with a very personal pictorial work that questions the ambiguity of the representation. His performances question the sense of "living together" and give his images the capacity to make us analyze the world we live in. Through his videos oscillating between tension and balance, giving birth and generating death, Mohamed questions the imminence of death to let us comprehend about life’s fragility. His photographic work contains a promise of ritual writing, a thought rightly thrown into the world, a global and critical project about society through the moving image that raises many questions: history, memory, evil, identity, pain, chaos... Mohamed Thara has taken part in numerous exhibitions around the world, including the group show Jeune Peinture at the Grand Palais, Paris (1999), the exhibition Mutation at the CAPC, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (2001), the ZKM Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany (2017), the Museum of Modern Art in Rio Janeiro, Brazil (2017), at the Kochi Musiris Biennale in Kerala, India (2017), at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Italy (2018), at Les Rencontres de Bamako, the African Biennial of Photography, Mali (2019), at the 13th Havana Biennale in Cuba (2019), at the 14th Biennial of Contemporary African Art in Dakar, Senegal (2022). In 2020, he presents a retrospective of his video films at the International Film Festival at City College in New York and in 2023 at the Raleigh Studio in Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA. In the same year, he takes part in the Cigarreras exhibition at MACA, Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, Spain, and in the Glocalities exhibition at the Villa Kolla Contemporary Art Center organized by the University of Peloponnese in Patras, Greece. His work has been acquired by several private collectors in Morocco, France and abroad, and his videos have won numerous awards.

Mohamed Thara is represented by Galerie 38 in Casablanca (Morocco) and Jane Lombard Gallery in New York (USA).

CV

Born in 1972 in Fez (Morocco)
Lives and works in Bordeaux and Paris (France)

EDUCATION

2014 - 2018 : Ph.D. in Theory of Art: (Film and Audiovisual Studies) Bordeaux-Montaigne University (France)
2013 : Master's Degree 2 in Visual Arts from Bordeaux-Montaigne University (France)
2011 : 35mm camera extensive training at Arscipro (Professional Film School), Paris (France)
2010 : Films and photography technics, at INA SUP (Audiovisual National Institute) Paris (France)
2002 : (D.N.S.E.P) National Diploma of  Arts and Médias, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (France)
2000 : (D.N.A.P) National Diploma of Visual Arts, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux (France)
1995 : (CAPES) Diploma of the national center of the Teachers of Visual arts in Rabat (Morocco)

SOLO SHOWS (selection)

2024 Exploding Cinema Show, The Cinema Museum, London, (United Kingdom) Film Works, LCB Depot, Art Center, Leicester, (United Kingdom) 2023 Films Works, Lift-Off Film Festival, Raleigh Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles (USA) 2022 No Name Paintings, CHRISTIE’S Gallery, Maxwell-Baynes, Bordeaux (France) DeProfundis, L'Usine Végétale Cultural Art Center, Le Fieu (France) 2020 Videos Works, POC International Film Festival, City College, New York (USA) 2019 As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Kaskada gallery, Szczecin, (Poland) 2017 DeProfundis, Modern Art Museum, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Metavilla gallery, Bordeaux (France) 2014
Ritus, Cité Frugès-Le Corbusier, Pessac (France)
No Name Paintings, la Maison des Arts, Pessac (France) What are you going to do with your life? Triangle gallery, Bordeaux (France) 2012 pARTages, Théatre des Salinières, Bordeaux (France) What are you going to do with your life? Cinéma La Clef, Paris (France) pARTages, Triangle gallery, Bordeaux (France) 2000
Table Optimiste, French Institute, 4th edition of the Off Dakar Biennale, (Senegal)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2024 Uzbekistan Biennale, 10th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, (Uzbekistan) Thief, Apart, International Short Film & Photography Symposium Baris Manco Art Center, İstanbul (Turkey) Official Selection, The Max Sir International Film Festival, Teatro Dionisio, Echeverría, (Costa Rica) IMAF + 35, group show, MAS Gallery, Odzaci, (Serbia) Artificial Reality, Ibrida, Festival des Arts Intermédiaires, Forli, (Italy) Official Selection, Steve Aronson International Film Festival, Palace of Arts, Lviv, (Ukraine) The ARTÉVEL Contemporary Art Fair, Largo do Rio da Fonte, Pontével, (Portugal) Afro-méditerranéens, galerie Les Glacières, Bordeaux (France) Origin of Trauma, Arte Laguna gallery, Mogliano Veneto, (Italy) Re–Source, Re–Fest at La MAMA Galleria, New York, (USA) CosmiX, Festival International de Cinéma Expérimental, Paris, (France) Opposite Flow at IFOD, Izmir Photo and Cinema Art Center, İstanbul (Turkey) Nouvelle collection 2023, Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, (France)

2023 nodoCCS, 9th Festival Video, ElRaise Art Gallery, Caracas, (Venezuela) Glocalities, Villa Kolla Art Space, University of Peloponnese, Patras (Greece) Reality Imagination, Towards the Future, Dar Al-Musa Art Gallery, Dammam (Saudi Arabia) International Short Film & Photography Symposium Baris Manco Art Center, İstanbul (Turkey) From Little Acorns… Photoworks Festival, The Municipal Foyer in Lolodorf (Cameroon) The second zone, Lift-Off Film Festival, London (United Kingdom) Mediterranea, Archaeological Museum of Messenia, Kalamata (Greece) An egg, the white is gone but the yellow remains, FEST / New films Festival. Espinho, (Portugal) Cigarreras, MACA - Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, (Spain) Video Art Miden, Casa Bianca, Municipal Art Gallery, Thessaloniki (Greece) Peace Letters Winter, The New Museum of Networked Art, Kochi (India)

2022 Ĩ’Ndaffa, Dak’Art, 14th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (Senegal) African Visions, Museum of Modern Art, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The Second Zone Little Islands Festival, Síkinos, (Greece) International selection, 19th Asian Art Biennale, National Art Gallery (Bangladesh) Peace Letters from Washington to Ukraine, Alphabet Art Center, Washington DC, (USA) Group show, (Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art) La Cambre, Brussels (Belgium) Art Brussels 38th Edition contemporary art fair, (Belgium) Peace Letter to Ukraine, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, (USA) Digital Africa, Cultural House of Lolodorf, (Cameroon) Essence / Absence, 5th New digital Art Biennale, The Wrong Pavillion 10, Foggia (Italy)

2021 40 œuvres pour 40 artistes, Auditorium du Forum des Pertuis, La Rochelle, (France) Broken Screen, Belgrado Art Center, Buenos Aires (Argentina) International selection, 4 Peace Film Festival, New York (USA) Arte-Fatti Contemporanei, Festival Bologna in Lettere, Bologna (Italy) Pantalla Rota, Muestra de Video Activismo, Caba (Argentina) The Second Zone 3th Hollywood Las Vegas Film Festival, Los Angeles, (USA) Apocalipsis tecnocrático, The Paternal Art Space Project, Buenos Aires (Argentina) Panorama, group show at Visualconteiner TV, Milan (Italy)

2020 Technocratic Apocalypse, El Blanco, Center for Artistic Experimentations, Caba, (Argentina) Ĩ’Ndaffa / Forger / Out of the fire, Dak’Art, 14th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (Senegal) La Vague Blanche, La Galerie 38, Casablanca (Morocco) The Treachery of Images, Arts Space, San Juan, (Argentina) IM(PULSION) group exhibition with 21 Moroccan Artists, Casablanca (Morocco) Agora OFF, Festival des Arts confinés, Paris (France) Short Cuts, 3th edition Hollywood Weekly Film Festival, Los Angeles (USA) NewMediaFest, Arad Art Museum, Arad (Romania) Focus Africa, Addis Video Art Festival, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

2019 Streams Of Consciousness, 12th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography (Mali) La Seconde Zone, Lift-­Off Global Network, Pinewood Studios (United Kingdom) International Panorama #2 Pinacoteca Ruben Berta Museum, Porto Alegre (Brazil) Le Devenir Monde, Festival Ambiance, Cinèma Les Colonnes, Blanquefort (France) In Absentia, Pavillion at The Wrong - New digital Art Biennale, Foggia (Italy) Video Art and Experimental films, 9th Cairo International Video Art Festival, Cairo, (Egypt) As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, O Sítio Art and Technology gallery, Florianópolis (Brazil) Connect, Vaughn Center at the University of Tampa, FLorida (USA) La Seconde Zone, Marienbad International Film Festival, Marienbad (Czech Republic) Haunted Places, The Cairo Opera House, Cairo, (Egypt) Interrupted II, New Mills Festival, Art Theater, Derbyshire, (United Kingdom) Official Competition, Aasha International Film festival, Nashik (India) Group show, Festival Perform, Domaine de Nodris, Vertheuil (France) Toiles d'images, la Salle des fêtes du Grand Parc, Bordeaux (France) Official Competition Szczecin International Film Festival, Szczecin (Poland) Paisajes Humanos, La Neomudéjar Museum, Madrid (Spain) La Seconde Zone, 8th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, (Cuba) The Construction of the Possible, 13th Havana Biennale, La Havana (Cuba) Interrupted, Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin, FLorida (USA) Par-delà les Territoires, The French Institute gallery, Kénitra (Morocco) Art and Rebellion, 107th CAA College Art Association, Hilton Midtown, New York (USA) Terra Incognita #3 Saison Vidéo, Lille (France) Par-delà les Territoires, The French Institute gallery, Meknes (Morocco)

2018 As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, InShort Film Festival, Lagos (Nigeria) DeProfundis, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey) Exil et Memoire, Biennale Agora Rabat Salé, Rabat (Morocco) TIME is Love.11, MOTOCO Mulhouse Contemporary Art, Mulhouse (France) As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Toolbox gallery, Berlin (Germany)
Par-delà les Territoires, 11th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Fez (Morocco) FNB Joburg Art Fair, The johannesburg Art Fair, Sandton Convention Center (South Africa) Bodies, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, The Room Contemporary Art Space (Italy)
W:OW.18, Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles (USA)
Activismo 6th International Biennale of Performance Bogota, (Colombia)
Surfaces, Its Liquid Art And Architecture Festival, Venise (Italy)
Alteration, Millepiani Space, Loosen Art Gallery, Rome (Italy)
#1 Video Art, The First International Video Art Forum, Eastern Province, (Saudi Arabia)
DeProfundis, La Nuit Européenne des Musées, Centre George Pompidou, Paris (France)
Silent Territory, L’Uzine Art Center, Touria & Abdelaziz Tazi Fondation, Casablanca (Morocco)
Group show, EX-NEW Contemporary Art Center, Milan (Italy)
Experiments in Cinema, International Experimental Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)
Silent Territory (FIAV) International Festival of Video Art, Casablanca (Morocco)
Ibrida, La Fabbrica Delle Candele, Forli (Italy)
We Are One World, Municipal Art Gallery Kharkiv (Ukraine)
TIME is Love.11, CCA Contemporary Arts Center, Glasgow, (United Kingdom)
As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Lily Agius Gallery, Sliema (Malta) 
Video Art From Africa, Depart Foundation, Malibu, Los Angeles (USA)
Fusions, Espace de l’Eglise Saint Rémi, Bordeaux (France)

2017
Milk vs Whiskey, Museum of Modern Art, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
The Wow Point of View, Center for Media communications and visuel studies, Kharkiv (Ukraine)
Strangloscope, Mostra Internacional Film Festival, Florianópolis (Brazil) 
Official Selection, (AFRIFF) 7th Africa International Film Festival, Lagos (Nigeria) 
Nos désirs font désordre, La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (France) 
New Landscape, (WAC) Weekend of contemporary art, Bordeaux (France)
Milk vs Whiskey Hiedra gallery, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Art is Resistance, Werkstatt gallery, Berlin (Germany)
TIME is Love.10 MCube gallery, Lalitpur (Nepal)
Group show, (CACT) Contemporary Art Center, Ticino (Italy)
Sofia Underground, National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria)
AnneXafriques, Rocher de Palmer gallery, Cenon (France)
As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Institut Français de Casablanca (Morocco)
7ème édition, Camaguey International Video Art Festival, Camagüey (CUBA)
Wake UP! CologneOFF & The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne (Germany)
Future Imperfect Symposium, Plymouth University, Plymouth (United Kingdom)
Milk vs Whiskey, Artspace gallery, Tel Aviv (Israel)
Sélection internationale, International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca (Morocco)
Milk vs Whiskey, ZKM Museum, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Art, Activism & Archives, Biennale of Kochi Musiris, Kochi-Kerala (India)
The Refugee Film Collection, The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne (Germany)
Art in The Time of Crisis, Palais Dar Pacha Tazi, Fez (Morocco)

2016
Trait d’union, (Biennale) 10th edition of Photography Encounters of Fez (Morocco)
1th Festival International Les Nuits Photographiques, Essaouira (Morocco) 
Economie l'Expo-Jeu, Cap Sciences gallery, Bordeaux (France)
Dans le ventre de la médina, Takafes, The Center for Art and Cultural Innovation, Fez (Morocco)

2002
Partage des Crêpes, Théâtre des Salinières, Bordeaux (France)
DNSEP, Group show, Triangle gallery, Bordeaux (France)

2001
De la Place aux Etoiles, Cinéma Utopia, Bordeaux (France)
Sociétés d’ici et d’ailleurs, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage, Bordeaux (France)
Mutation, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (France)

1999
Sous Pression, Jeune Création, Grand Palais, Paris (France)
Portes ou vertes, Jean Zay Hall residency, Paris (France)
The Soho International Art Contest, Soho gallery, New York (USA)

1996 3th Sapporo international Print Biennale, Minami (Japan)

1995  
International Selection, 2th Sharajah Biennale of contemporary art, Sharajah (United Arab Emirates)
Group Show for the benefit of Unicef, Art 54 gallery, New York (USA)
Jeune Peinture Borj Nord, National Museum of Weapons, Fez (Morocco)

SELECTION SCREENINGS

Lift-Off Global Network 2019 (UK) / Reeves Theater, Vaughn Center at the University of Tampa, FLorida (USA) / Marienbad International Film Festival (Czech Republic) / Cairo Opera House (Egypt) / Art Theater, Derbyshire, (United Kingdom) / Aasha International Film festival (India) / Domaine de Nodris, Vertheuil (France) / Salle des fêtes du Grand Parc, Bordeaux (France) / Technopark Pomerania, Szczecin (Poland) / International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, (Cuba) / International Video Art Festival of Casablanca (Morocco) / Firehouse Cultural Center, Ruskin, FLorida (USA) / Hilton Midtown, New York (USA) / Saison Vidéo, Lille (France) / InShort Film Festival, Lagos (Nigeria) / Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey) / MOTOCO Mulhouse Contemporary Art, Mulhouse (France) / Centre George Pompidou, Paris (France) / International Experimental Film Festival, Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) / La Fabbrica Delle Candele, Forli (Italy) / Municipal Art Gallery Kharkiv (Ukraine) / CCA Contemporary Arts Center, Glasgow, (United Kingdom) / Museum of Modern Art, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) / Center for Media communications and visuel studies, Kharkiv (Ukraine) / La Friche la Belle de Mai, Marseille (France) / National Palace of Culture, Sofia (Bulgaria) / Institut Français de Casablanca (Morocco) / Plymouth University, Plymouth (United Kingdom) / ZKM Museum, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Germany) / Palais Dar Pacha Tazi, Fez (Morocco) / Cap Sciences gallery, Bordeaux (France) / Cinéma Utopia, Bordeaux (France)

BIENNIALS

2024 : Uzbekistan Biennale, 10th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, (Uzbekistan) 2022 : Goums, 5th New digital Art Biennale, Foggia (Italy) 2022 : Ĩ’Ndaffa, Dak’Art, 14th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (Senegal) 2022 : International selection, 19th Asian Art Biennale, National Art Gallery, (Bangladesh) 2020 : Ĩ’Ndaffa / Forger / Out of the fire, Dak’Art, 14th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar (Senegal)
2019 : The Construction of the Possible, 13th Havana Biennale, La Havana (Cuba) 2019 : Streams Of Consciousness, 12th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography (Mali) 2019 : In Absentia, Pavillion at The Wrong - 4th New digital Art Biennale, Foggia (Italy)
2018 : Exil et Memoire, Biennale Agora Rabat Salé, Rabat (Morocco)
2018 : Par-delà les Territoires, 11th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Fez (Morocco)
2018 : Bodies, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, The Room Contemporary Art Space (Italy)
2018 : Activismo 6th International Biennale of Performance Bogota, (Colombia)
2018 : Art, Activism & Archives, 4th Biennale of Kochi Musiris, Kochi-Kerala (India)
2016 : Trait d’union, 10th Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Fez (Morocco) 1996 : International selection, 3th Sapporo international Print Biennale, Minami (Japan)
1995 : International selection, 2th Sharajah Biennale of contemporary art, Sharajah (United Arab Emirates)

AWARD & NOMINATIONS

2023 : The Second Zone, nominated of The Lift-Off Film Festival, London, (United Kingdom) 2020 : Jeanine, nominated of Best Short Awards POC International Film Festival, New York (USA) 2020 : Guest judge at 3th edition Hollywood Weekly film festival, Los Angeles, (USA) 2019 : La Seconde Zone nominated for Transfer Architecture Video Award, Zurich, (Suisse) 2019 : Member of the International Jury of the Maghreb Photography Awards, Casablanca (Morocco) 2019 : La Seconde Zone nominated for International Red Carpet Award, Aasha Film Festival, Nashik, (India) 2019 : As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Best Experimental Short film, Szczecin International Film Festival (Poland) 2019 : Special Mention for La Seconde Zone at 8th International Video Art Festival of Camagüey, (Cuba) 2018 : As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Best Experimental Short, Istanbul Experimental Film Festival (Turkey) 2017 : As Long As I Can Hold My Breath, Finalist for the best short film, Africa Film Festival, Lagos, (Nigeria)
1989 : Winner of the prize of drawing, Saudi Arabian Society for Research and International Marketing, Riyadh (Saudi Arabian)

SEMINARS / WORKSHOPS / CONFERENCES

2018 - 2019 : (Biennial) 11th edition of Photography Encounters of Fez, (Morocco) 2019 : Conference about John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea at la Base sous-marine, Bordeaux, (France) 2019 : Workshop at Condorcet High School, with MC2a Migration Culturelle, Bordeaux (France) 2015 - 2018 : Teacher in Aesthetics and Theory of the Arts at Bordeaux-Montaigne University  (France)
2017 - 2018 : Seminars at 23th and 24th edition of the International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca (Morocco) 2017 : Seminars « Identités, des minorités et du multiculturalisme dans le film choral » at INHA (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art) and (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) Paris (France) 2017 : Workshop “Experimental cinema” at L’Uzine Contemporary Art Center, Casablanca (Morocco) 1998 : Anish Kapoor assistant for the exhibition, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (France) 2001 : Jean Nouvel assistant for the exhibition "Mutation" Arc en Rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux (France) 2001 : Conference, « Sociétés d’ici et d’ailleurs », École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage, Bordeaux (France) 1995 - 1998 : Teacher in Visual arts at the Marrakech Academy, Ministry of National Education (Morocco)  

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2020 : La Vague Blanche, (Group show) 8 october to 18 november 2020, La Galerie 38, Casablanca (Morocco) 2019 : Reflections, (Group show) La Maison Africaine de la Photographie, OFF Bamako Biennale. 12th Bamako Encounters, African Biennale of Photography, December 2019, Janvier 2020, (Mali) 2018 : Beyond the Territories, (Group show) 30 november to 30 december. The French Institute gallery.
11th edition (Biennial) of the  Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie de Fez (Morocco)  2018 : Silent Territory, (Group show) April 24th - 30th.
(FIAV) 24th International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca (Morocco)  2018 : Sci-Fi Trilogy, Larissa Sansour, Studio des Arts Vivants, Casablanca (Morocco) 2017 : New Landscape, (Group show) September 28.
(WAC) Weekend of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, (CAPC) Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux (France)   2017 : International selection, 25 - 29 April. (Group show)
(FIAV) 23th International Festival of Video Art of Casablanca (Morocco)

COLLECTIONS (Selection)

Banque Populaire, Fez (Morocco)
Barwa Bank, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai (Qatar)
Saudi Arabian Society for Research and International Marketing, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) The Southern African Foundation for Contemporary Art, Saint-Émilion, (France) The Nairobi Arts Trust / Centre for Contemporary Art of East Africa, Nairobi, (Kenya) The Southern African Foundation For Contemporary Art, Abbaye de la Cambre, Brussels (Belgium)                       The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne (Germany) Aasha Fondation, Nashik, (India) Memorial Fondation Collection, Cologne (Germany) Centre Georges-Pompidou / Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris (France) Firou A. Collection , Los Angeles, (USA) CHRISTIE’S Collection (France) MACA Collection / Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, (Spain) National Museum of Mali, Bamako (Mali) Dukhan Bank Collection, Doha (Qatar) The Saudi Arabian Society for Culture and Arts, Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux (France) MOMUS - Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki, (Greece) Videomuseum, Réseau des collections publiques d’art moderne et contemporain, Paris, (France)

And private art collections.  

ENTRETIENS & INTERVIEWS

TelQuel Magazine 26 mai, 2022 : https://telquel.ma/2022/05/26/mohamed-thara-cest-terrible-pour-un-artiste-detre-recupere-par-le-marche-de-lart-et-cest-terrible-aussi-de-ne-pas-etre-recupere_1768657 Le Point Magazine novembre 2020 : https://www.lepoint.fr/afrique/ce-qui-m-inspire-c-est-l-etre-humain-dans-toute-sa-complexite-20-11-2020-2402006_3826.php? ArtDependence Magazine, Interview with Kisito Assangni, may 2019: https://www.artdependence.com/articles/the-aestheticized-interview-with-mohamed-thara-morocco/ ARTAFRICA mars 2019 issue 15 : Beyond the Territories Interview with Lukho Witbooi : https://fr.calameo.com/read/0048361913c767a537914 Al Bayan, 6 septembre, 2017. «Je ne fais pas de l’art politique, je fais de l’art politiquement» : http://albayane.press.ma/ne-fais-de-lart-politique-fais-de-lart-politiquement.html Aujourd'hui Le Maroc, du 07 août 2016, Interview « Ce qui m’inspire c’est l’être humain dans toute sa complexité »: http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/ce-qui-minspire-cest-letre-humain-dans-toute-sa-complexite Le site info, 25 avril 2017, Interview with Olivier Rachet : https://www.lesiteinfo.com/cultures/71627-mohamed-thara-lart-video-art-mineur-maroc.html

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Arte.it Magazine : http://www.arte.it/calendario-arte/forl%C3%AC-cesena/mostra-ibrida-festival-delle-arti-intermediali-98969 Juliet Art Magazine, aout 2024 : https://www.juliet-artmagazine.com/ibrida-festival-2024-artificial-reality/ Bordeaux Art Contemporain, 07/2024 : https://bordeauxartcontemporain.com/evenement/exposition-afro-mediterraneenne/ Origin of Trauma, Arte Laguna gallery, Mogliano Veneto, (Italy) : https://artelaguna.world/sculpture/origin-of-trauma/ Journal Aujourd’hui Le Maroc du 3 mai 2024 : https://aujourdhui.ma/culture/il-expose-une-serie-de-ses-films-et-videos-lartiste-multidisciplinaire-mohamed-thara-en-vedette-au-musee-du-cinema-a-londres Primarolia Festival November 2023 : https://primarolia.com/project/videoartfestivalmiden/ Video Art Miden November 2023 : https://www.festivalmiden.gr/en/around-the-world-by-video-art-miden-at-primarolia-festival-patras-gr/ Photoworks Festival 2023 : https://photoworks.org.uk/whats-on/photoworks-festival-from-little-acorns-to-launch-in-lolodorf-cameroon/ ARTAFRICA february 2022 : https://artafricamagazine.org/bikoka-art-project-launches-in-cameroon/ Video Art Miden, Greece : https://www.festivalmiden.gr/en/video-art-miden-collaborates-with-2nd-video-art-projects-at-municipal-gallery-casa-bianca-thessaloniki/ Chateau News février 2022 : https://chateaunews.com/fr/2022/02/18/portrait-of-a-community-features-of-a-land/ Aujourd’hui Le Maroc, 5 mai 2022 : https://aujourdhui.ma/culture/mohamed-thara-expose-chez-la-celebre-christies-a-bordeaux 5th New digital Art Biennale, The Wrong Pavillion 10, 2022 : https://thewrong.tv/essence-absence Bologna in lettere, mai 2021 : http://www.bolognainlettere.it/2021/05/23/bologna-in-lettere-2021-mohamed-thara-as-long-as-i-can-hold-my-breath/ Art And About Africa octobre 2020 : https://www.artandaboutafrica.com/exhibitions/the-white-wave-20-years-of-moroccan-contemporary-art/ Revue Point Contemporain novembre 2020 : http://pointcontemporain.com/la-vague-blanche-20-ans-dart-contemporain-marocain/ Journal l’Economiste 08/10/2020 : https://www.leconomiste.com/article/1068175-art-contemporain-la-generation-00-s-expose Dak'Art, La Biennale de Dakar 2020 : https://biennaledakar.org/2022/05/09/thara-mohamed-ma-expo-in/#.YpCndGDP0-Q Contemporary And (C&) september 2020 : https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/exhibition/la-vague-blanche-group-show/ Finances News : https://fnh.ma/article/actualite-culturelle/l-art-contemporain-dans-tous-ses-etats-entre-intuition-et-illusion Milles Magazine July 24, 2020 : https://www.milleworld.com/best-moroccan-artists-to-know/? Agora-Off Festival des arts confinés, Mai, 2020 : https://agora-off.com/j49-mohamed-thara Le TEMPS Magazine par Elisabeth Stoudmann, janvier 2020 : https://www.letemps.ch/culture/bamako-salut-culture Film-Documentaire Français, Jeanine 2018 : http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/59676_1
Film-Documentaire Français, La Seconde Zone, 2019 : http://www.film-documentaire.fr/4DACTION/w_fiche_film/59607_1 Aujourd’hui Le Maroc, décembre 2019 : http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/dakart-2020-trois-artistes-marocains-selectionnes? Contemporary And (C&) Magazine, december 2019 : https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/magazines/rencontres-de-bamako/ Independant Arabia september 19, 2019 : https://www.independentarabia.com/node/57411/ University of Tampa, USA, Connect 2019 : https://videoartes.org/mohamed-thara/ Cairo Opera House, 19/9/2019, Cairo International Video Art Festival : https://www.cvf.medrar.org/portfolios/the-second-zone/ Aujourd’hui Le Maroc, sept 2019 : http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/photographie-le-maroc-selectionne-pour-les-rencontres-de-bamako Beaux-Arts Magazine, août 2019 : https://www.beauxarts.com/grand-format/perform-un-nouveau-festival-grisant-dans-le-medoc/ e-flux : https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/278260/bamako-encounters-african-biennale-of-photographystreams-of-consciousness/ Szczecin International Film Festival, Polond, 2019 : http://www.szczecinfilmfestival.com/en/687/nagrody_seff19
IVAHM’19, C.A.V. La Neomudéjar Museum and Contemporary Arts Center, Madrid: http://ivahm.com/portfolio/paisajes-humanos-sociedad/ Contemporary And C& décembre 2018 : https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/exhibition/11th-edition-the-rencontres-of-fez-morocco/ Revue Point Contemporain, décembre 2018 : http://pointcontemporain.com/rencontres-internationales-photo-fes-11e-edition-par-dela-les-territoires/ Aujourd'hui Le Maroc 2018 : http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/les-rencontres-internationales-de-la-photo-de-fes-explorent-la-notion-de-territoire? FNB Joburg Art Fair, The johannesburg Art Fair, septembre 2018 : https://www.artsy.net/fnb-joburg-art-fair-2018 Institut Français du Maroc, décembre 2018 Les Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fès : https://if-maroc.org/fes/evenements/les-rencontres-internationales-de-la-photo-de-fes-11e-edition/ Cie lullaby : http://www.cie-lullaby.com/la-seconde-zone-_-mohamed-thara-cie-lullaby/ Art A Part of Culture, Italy : https://www.artapartofculture.net/2018/05/05/ibrida-festival-delle-arti-intermediali-3a-edizione/
Contemporary And Magazine, avril 2018 : https://www.contemporaryand.com/fr/exhibition/silent-territory-24th-edition-casablanca-international-video-art-festival-morocco/
Revue Point Contemporain, Paris, avril 2018 : http://pointcontemporain.com/territoires-silencieux-selection-internationale-fiav-2018-casablanca-maroc
Experimental Cinéma : https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/silent-territory-24th-edition-casablanca-international-video-art-festival
EX–NEW Contemporary Art Center Milan (Italy) 3 to 6 May 2018 : https://www.ex-new.com/en/timeislove/
Artillery Magazine : https://artillerymag.com/events/video-art-from-africa-at-depart-foundation/
Ibrida festival 2018 | video selection : http://www.vertovproject.com/news/ibrida-festival-2018-video-selection
La revue Turbulences Video ≠ 98, janvier 2018, « Papales, Fatales, Normales Vidéos » article de Jean-Paul Fargier.
Transverse-Art (Répertoire de l'art contemporain) As long As I Can Hold My Breath, décembre 2017, article de Caroline Corbal.
Average Art Magazine N° 17, December 2017, Liverpool, United kingdom. 
A5 Art Magazine Portfolio #9, December 2017, London, United Kingdom. Instants Video, Marseille, Novembre 2017 : https://www.instantsvideo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/catalogueIV2017.pdf
WAC Bordeaux Septembre 2017 : https://bordeauxartcontemporain.com/2017/09/12/mohamed-thara-artiste-et-commissaire/ Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles (USA) W:OW.18 : http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/wow-2018
Diptyk magazine n° 39, juin-sept, 2017. Art Vidéo / "5 nuances de bleu" par Marie Moignard : http://diptykblog.com
Galerie Metavilla #9 Caroline Corbal : http://metavilla.org/mohamed-thara/
Culturetoute N°221 du 30 janvier 2017 : Entretien avec Pascual Jordan, commissaire de l’exposition collective L’Art en Temps de Crise.
Wake UP! artvideoKOELN & The New Museum of Networked Art, Cologne, Allemagne : http://wake-up.engad.org/mohamed-thara/
Aujourd'hui le Maroc, avril 2017 : http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/une-programmation-riche-au-festival-international-dart-video
Art Video koeln 2017 : http://refugee.engad.org/the-collection/
Aujourd'hui le Maroc 2017 : http://aujourdhui.ma/culture/fez-gathering-un-debat-autour-du-role-de-lart-en-temps-de-crise
Journal Libération, 7 septembre, 2016 : http://www.libe.ma/Photographie-Dans-le-ventre-de-la-Medina_a78436.html
In The View 15 septembre 2016 : http://riadzany.blogspot.fr/2016/09/photography-in-heart-of-fez-medina.html
Télérama, n° 2699 / octobre, 2001. « De la place aux étoiles » Mohamed Thara artiste en résidence. 
Revue Etapes Graphiques, Juin - Juillet, Paris 2002. « Ah ! La belle idée »

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