Art
Architecture
Interior Design
Publications
Lives and works between Casablanca and Paris
Represented by Loft Art Gallery.
With over a decade of professional experience, Othmane has collaborated with prominent figures and institutions in the fields of architecture and design. Within the LVMH Group, under the direction of Peter Marino, he contributed to the design of several Louis Vuitton flagship stores across Europe, including the iconic Avenue Montaigne location. He later joined the private architectural office of His Majesty the King of Morocco, where he spent six years working on major projects, including royal residences, the Four Seasons Hotel in Rabat, and the “Canopy” project on Place Moulay Hassan.
In parallel, Othmane has developed a poetic and context-driven vision of architecture through collaborations with studios such as Lazraq Studio and ADRA Studio, most notably designing the scenography for the Uzbekistan Pavilion for the 2024 Venice Art Biennale.
In 2020, he founded Othmane Bengebara Studio, which has since delivered several notable projects in Morocco for leading figures in the global contemporary art world. His work is characterised by a deep sensitivity to landscape and an exploration of the lived experience. Each project is conceived as a unique, bespoke composition that merges contemporary architecture and interior design.
My work explores a simple and recurring conceptual idea: life is a succession of days and nights. Yet, as an architect and designer, I’m also interested in how our existence is technology-textured. Prior to their existence as tools in uses, technologies are first the perceptual structure of our existence; devices or invisible matrices produced by culture and history, into which our potential experience-of-the-world is cast. In that sense, the phenomenality of new digital technologies, such as AI, radically alters our representation of the world and our being-in-the-world or feeling-in-the-world.
As I question the relationship between dualism and the experimentation of our inner spaces and emotions, this shift has been essential in understanding the value and semiotic contribution of design in our world. If design is making sense of things, it then extends it our factitive role as producers of experiential enchantments in the art worlds.
For several years now, I’ve been developing an artistic project that explores the idea that life unfolds through an incessant cycle of days and nights. This passage between light and darkness is not just a natural reality, but a reflection of our own inner and collective transitions.
Through this work, I invite the audience to consider the cycles that govern not only the natural world - the movements of the sun, moon and stars - but also the rhythms that are specific to people and nations. By revisiting key moments in my personal history and in our shared history, I seek to redefine the way we perceive the present moment, and to encourage us to collectively reinvent our future.
- Group Exhibitions
Amur Yakus, Loft Art Gallery, Marrakech
1-54 Marrakech, Morocco
2023
A drawing for Morocco, Paris Internationale 9, Paris, France
XYZT, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
1-54 New York, NYC, USA
2022
L'art, un jeu sérieux, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
2021
Taymour Grahne Gallery, London, UK
2020
État d’urgence d’instants poétiques, 4th Edition, Jardin d’essais botaniques and Le Cube Independent Art Room, Rabat, Morocco
2019
Casablanca Design Week,
École des Beaux-Arts de Casablanca, Morocco
The Cloud, National School of Architecture, Rabat, Morocco
If Algae mattered, a speculative map of the Mediterranean, 4th Design Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
2015
New South, La Galerie du Crous, Paris, France
2024
Uzbekistan National Pavilion, 60th Venice Biennale, Italy
2023
XYZT, Loft Art Gallery, Casablanca, Morocco
2021
Outsider/Insider, MACAAL, Marrakech, Morocco
Residencies
Sidi Harazem, Aziza Chaouni Projects, Fez, Morocco
Awards
City Vision Prize, Wuho Gallery, Los Angeles, USA