Yasmine Laraqui

Yasmine Laraqui is a curator and a visual artist born in 1989 in Casablanca. She holds a BFA from ENSA Paris-Cergy (2012), an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, NYC (2014), Currently lives in Casablanca Yasmine has developed an interest in curating shows when she was an art student and exhibited her works in France, Morocco, the U.S, the U.K, Netherlands, Canada, Spain, Sweden, Italy and China for exhibitions, fairs, and biennales including the Marrakech Biennale, Photo L.A, 1;54 Contemporary African Art Fair, and PhotoMed Festival amongst others. Yasmine also co-founded Youth's Talking and (2010-2014), two independent curatorial structures promoting non-conformist international artists, with an emphasis on emerging Moroccan artists. Yasmine Laraqui opened Dasthe Art Space and Agency in Casablanca in September 2017.