ART GENÈVE | SOLO SHOW: GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

29 January - 1 February 2026

  • BOOTH D32S

    MOUHCINE RAHAOUI
  • AFIKARIS is pleased to present a monographic exhibition dedicated to Moroccan artist Mouhcine Rahaoui (born 1990). His work composes an aesthetic of the miner and shapes its legend. Landscapes emerge from matter as if dissecting the entrails of the earth, excavating horizons that are both mysterious and unsettling.

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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS Gallery. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Experience and history of miners. Humans' fragility.
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, La mine ou Coulée des nuits souterraines, 2025
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS Gallery. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Experience and history of miners. Humans' fragility.
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, L'mina, 2024
    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS Gallery. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Experience and history of miners. Humans' fragility.
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, De bas en haut, 2025
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui, City, Jerrada, 2025
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, City, Jerrada, 2025
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS Gallery. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Experience and history of miners. Humans' fragility.
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, Hommage aux mineurs de Jerada, 2024
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS Gallery. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Experience and history of miners. Humans' fragility. Art Paris. Art Genève.
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, L'mina 2, 2024
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS PARIS. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Ready-made. 1-54 London. Art genève 2024
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, Lumière obscure, 2023
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS PARIS. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Ready-made. 1-54 London. Art genève 2024
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, Pour la mémoire, 2024
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    • Mouhcine Rahaoui painting. Moroccan Artist. Contemporary African art in Paris. AFIKARIS PARIS. Mixed media (charcoal, wax, glue, plastic, wax, resin) on canvas. Installations. Ready-made. 1-54 London. Art genève 2024
      Mouhcine Rahaoui, Au début, c'était du charbon, 2024
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  • MOUHCINE RAHAOUI WAS BORN IN 1990 IN JERADA, MOROCCO. HE LIVES AND WORKS IN MARRAKECH. Mouhcine Rahaoui graduated from the...
    MOUHCINE RAHAOUI WAS BORN IN 1990 IN JERADA, MOROCCO. HE LIVES AND WORKS IN MARRAKECH.
     
    Mouhcine Rahaoui graduated from the Tetouan School of Fine Arts in 2017. His work explores the experience and history of miners in the Oriental region, particularly in his home town of Jerada. He offers an immersion into the meanders of his memory and his relationship with the raw reality of a town where the only way to survive is to 'take the rabbit trail', confronting the likelihood of not getting out. According to urban legend, a Belgian forest ranger stumbled upon a coal deposit in the late 1920s after having followed a black rabbit covered in coal. This event led to the first mining operations in the town of Jerada.
     
    Mouhcine Rahaoui questions the absurdity of life in its unreasonable and unfair nature. The mine confirms humans' fragility in the face of the unpredictability of the mountain that feeds them and sometimes swallows them up. Mouhcine Rahaoui tells the story of these dangerous, clandestine expeditions to extract the coal that sustains life and gently consumes it. Mouhcine Rahaoui wonders why working there, in Jerada, leads to death rather than life.
     
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  • AFIKARIS Gallery
    Booth D32 and D32S
    Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
     
    DATES AND TIMES
    VIP PREVIEW
    2 PM – 9 PM  |  Wednesday, 28 January

    PUBLIC OPENING HOURS
    12 PM – 7 PM  |  Thursday, 29 January
    12 PM – 8 PM  |  Friday, 30 January
    12 PM – 8 PM  |  Saturday, 1 February