Madiha Sebbani is a Moroccan multidisciplinary artist and curator born in 1991 in Salé, who lives and works between London and Saudi Arabia. A graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan (2015), she went on to pursue a master’s degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University in Germany, and in 2020 was granted a Global Arts and Cultural Talent Visa by the British Arts Council. Her practice — spanning performance, installation, painting, photography, and video — centers on minimalist acts rooted in daily rituals and intimate gestures, often examining power, authority, and human behavior, themes shaped in part by her upbringing on a military base. As a curator, she is the founder of the Young Moroccan Artists (YMA) collective, which has mounted exhibitions in London, Cologne, New York, and Washington D.C., as well as the Sacred exhibition at ESCAP3 Gallery in Cape Town and Contemporary Lab, an art consultancy focused on contemporary art from the Arab world, which she founded in 2022. Her work has been shown internationally at institutions including the Misk Art Institute in Saudi Arabia, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Belkahia Foundation in Marrakech, and the Kunstmeile Krems in Austria.
Madiha Sebbani is a Moroccan multidisciplinary artist and curator born in 1991 in Salé, who lives and works between London and Saudi Arabia. A graduate of the National Institute of Fine Arts in Tétouan (2015), she went on to pursue a master’s degree in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies at Bauhaus University in Germany, and in 2020 was granted a Global Arts and Cultural Talent Visa by the British Arts Council. Her practice — spanning performance, installation, painting, photography, and video — centers on minimalist acts rooted in daily rituals and intimate gestures, often examining power, authority, and human behavior, themes shaped in part by her upbringing on a military base. As a curator, she is the founder of the Young Moroccan Artists (YMA) collective, which has mounted exhibitions in London, Cologne, New York, and Washington D.C., as well as the Sacred exhibition at ESCAP3 Gallery in Cape Town and Contemporary Lab, an art consultancy focused on contemporary art from the Arab world, which she founded in 2022. Her work has been shown internationally at institutions including the Misk Art Institute in Saudi Arabia, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the Belkahia Foundation in Marrakech, and the Kunstmeile Krems in Austria.