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Conferences
Lecture given by Dean G. Kelch in conversation with Madison Cox
As part of the centennial celebration of the Jardin Majorelle, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech (mYSLm) is delighted to announce a series of conferences related to botany and gardens, which will be given by internationally renowned botanists and garden designers.
The mYSLm will welcome on Tuesday, May 7, 2024 the American botanist Dean G. Kelch, in conversation with Madison Cox, President of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, will discuss the evolution of cactus gardens in California.
Dean G. Kelch received a doctorate in botany from the University of California, Davis in 1996. He was the director of the Ruth Bancroft Garden & Nursery in Walnut Creek, California, and a researcher and lecturer at the University of California. He is currently an environmental program manager at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley. Dean G. Kelch authored the essay “Cactus: The evolving landscape of an iconic plant family,” published in the Cactus exhibition catalogue. The exhibition Cactus, co-curated by Marc Jeanson and Laurent Le Bon, can be seen in the mYSLm temporary exhibitions gallery through Sunday, March 7, 2024.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024 at 7:00 pm Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Umberto Pasti in conversation with Madison Cox
At the opening of a series of conferences related to botany and gardens, the writer and landscape designer, Umberto Pasti, in conversation with Madison Cox, President of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle, will discuss his book “The House of a Lifetime: A Collector’s Journey in Tangier”, published by Rizzoli in 2023, New York.
Born in Italy, Umberto Pasti has lived for over forty years between Milan, Tangier and Rohuna, a small village on the Moroccan Atlantic coast south of Assilah. In Rohuna, he created a large garden, where he cultivates many species threatened by the urban development of the region. Two books describing this titanic undertaking have been published: Perdu au Paradis (Flammarion, 2019) and Eden Revisited: A Garden in Northern Morocco (Rizzoli, 2019), with photographs by Ngoc Minh Ngo. Her photos of Rohuna were exhibited at the mYSLm photography gallery in 2020–2021.
Friday, April 19, 2024 at 7:00 pm Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Georges Petitjean « Le serpent arc-en-ciel »
Georges Petitjean, curator of the Fondation Opale and co-curator of the exhibition “Serpent: Aboriginal Art from Australia,” gave a conference titled “The Rainbow Serpent” on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at the mYSLm.
The art historian Georges Petitjean is curator of the Bérengère Primat Collection / Opale Foundation (Switzerland). His main area of interest is the conveyance of Australian Aboriginal art―in particular the paintings by desert communities―from their sites of origin to the contemporary art world.
Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Donatien Grau « Yves Saint Laurent et l'Afrique »
In conjunction with the exhibition “Serpent: Aboriginal Art from Australia,” seen at the mYSLm from July 21, 2023 to January 28, 2024, Donatien Grau, the Editor-in-Chief and Artistic Director of Alphabet Magazine, gave a conference titled “Yves Saint Laurent and Africa” on Thursday November 2, 2023.
Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:00 pm Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Emmanuelle Brugerolles “Yves Saint Laurent: Drawings and Intentions”
In conjunction with the exhibition “Yves Saint Laurent – Line and Expression,” which explored the role that the couturier’s exploratory sketches played in his oeuvre, the art historian Emmanuelle Brugerolles gave a conference on Friday, May 19, 2023 at the mYSLm on the theme of “Yves Saint Laurent: Drawings and Intention.”
Friday, May 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
« Conversations autour de l’Art » Conférence de Jean-Claude Casadesus
Dans le cadre des « Conversations autour de l’Art », "Les Amis de la Fondation Jardin Majorelle" présentent une conférence de Jean-Claude Casadesus, chef d'orchestre et écrivain, sur le thème "La Musique : une thérapie de l'âme" enregistrée à l'Auditorium Pierre Bergé du musée YVES SAINT LAURENT marrakech.
Créée en 2017, les « Amis de la Fondation Jardin Majorelle », association à but non lucratif de droit marocain, réunit les amoureux du Maroc et les amateurs d’art autour de la mode, des traditions berbères, de la botanique, de la musique, du théâtre, du cinéma et de la littérature pour contribuer au développement et au rayonnement de la Fondation. Les cotisations et les donations des membres permettent de soutenir les activités culturelles, projets éducatifs et œuvres caritatives du Jardin Majorelle, du Musée Pierre Bergé des Arts Berbères et du musée YVES SAINT LAURENT marrakech.
Podcast enregistré à l'Auditorium Pierre Bergé du mYSLm.
© Fondation Jardin Majorelle, janvier 2021.
A conversation between Bert Flint and Mouna Mekouar “Afro-Berber Culture”
Bert Flint was an eminent collector, anthropologist and expert in “Afro-Berber culture,” a field of study that he patiently forged to the point of embodying it, notably through the Tiskiwin Museum, which he founded in Marrakech in 1996. At the heart of his research, which involved a thorough exploration of the High Atlas and the Anti-Atlas Mountains, Bert Flint was able to identify the fundamental role that the Saharan populations of Mali, Niger, Chad, Mauritania, Tunisia and Algeria have played in the multicultural heritage of Morocco.
Monday, September 28, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
A conversation with Marisa Berenson, followed by the film Barry Lyndon.
American actress, granddaughter of the legendary fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Marisa Berenson was spotted by Luchino Visconti, who offered her a role in his feature film Death in Venice (1971), which launched her film career. She would go on to star, alongside Ryan O'Neal, in Stanley Kubrick’s 1975 film Barry Lyndon, in which she played the lead female role of Lady Lyndon.
Thursday January 23, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Stephen Di Renza “Developing products based on ancestral expertise”
Stephen Di Renza, artistic director at the Jardin Majorelle from 2013 to 2020, speaks about his inspirations when developing the product line at the Jardin Majorelle Boutique, and the important role played in his work by Moroccan expertise and craftsmanship.
Thursday, January 9, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
A conversation between Christine Lamoureux and Mahi Binebine “Rue du Pardon”
Mahi Binebine is a Moroccan painter, sculptor, novelist and civic activist. His eleventh novel transports us to the Rue du Pardon: it is on this modest little street in Marrakech that the narrator of the novel, Hayat, grew up. By depicting the women in her life as warriors against the hypocrisy of society, Mahi Binebine pays a beautiful tribute to these free, strong and endearing women, who break taboos and prohibitions.
Friday, January 3, 2020 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Didier Ottinger “Bacon”
Conversations with Art # 4
Didier Ottinger is a general curator of French heritage, specialist in modern and contemporary painting, art critic and French author. He is deputy director in charge of cultural programming at the National Museum of Modern Art / Center for Industrial Creation (MNAM/CCI), at the Pompidou Center in Paris. He was curator of the exhibitions David Hockney (2017), Bacon en tous lettres (2019) and Magritte / Renoir: Surrealism en plein soleil (2021).
Friday, December 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Laurent Le Bon “Yves Saint Laurent and Picasso”
Conversations about Art # 3
Laurent Le Bon has been president of the Pompidou Center in Paris since 2021. In 2010, he became director of the Pompidou Center Met, then President of the Picasso Museum in Paris from 2014 to 2021. He has curated around fifty exhibitions and is the author of publications related to them, notably Dada at the Pompidou Center (2005–2006), Jeff Koons Versailles at the Château de Versailles (2008), Jardins at the Grand Palais (2017), Dioramas at the Palais de Tokyo (2017) and Picasso: Blue and Pink at the Musée d’Orsay (2018-2019).
Friday, November 22, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
A discussion related to “Mohamed Melehi and the Casablanca School”
The Casablanca School, an artistic movement created in the 1960s by Farid Belkahia, Mohammed Chabâa, Mohamed Melehi, Toni Maraini and Bert Flint, was the impetus for a nativist and modernist approach by Moroccan artists to their work.
Friday, November 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
A discussion between Jürgen Adam and Gebhart Blazek “Moroccan carpets and Modern Art”
Jürgen Adam, professor of architecture at the University of Stuttgart and historian of Moroccan architecture, and Gebhart Blazek, collector and expert in Moroccan carpets, discuss the relationship between Moroccan carpets and modern art.
This talk was given while the Desert Design exhibition was mounted at the mYSLm in 2019. The exhibition highlighted around thirty contemporary rugs woven by the Aït Khebbach, a tribe found in the southeast region of Morocco, at the edge of the Sahara Desert.
Firday, October 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
A discussion between Izza Genini and Jonas Sibony “The Jewish People of Morocco: A Rich History”
As a film producer, and particularly as a director, Izza Genini has worked to raise awareness of the musical heritage and popular cultures of Morocco. Retrouver Oulad Moumen, filmed in 1994, traces the saga of three generations of a Jewish family from Morocco, told in the first person from the mother’s point of view by her daughter and the film’s director, Izza Genini.
Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Mounia Bennani “City Landscapes of Morocco”
Mounia Bennani is a landscape architect who advocates for quality public spaces and for improving living environments in Morocco. She opened her agency in 2006 and in 2010 co-founded the association of landscape architects of Morocco, the first of its kind in Africa.
Saturday, May 8, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Poetry reading by Abdelfettah Ellabi “Lyrical Poems of Abdellatif Laâbi”
The Moroccan translator, writer and poet, Abdellatif Laâbi founded the magazine Souffles, which played a considerable role in the cultural revival of the Maghreb. In 1985, he went into exile in France, where he received the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2009 and was awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie by the Académie Française in 2011.
Friday, April 19, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Laurence Benaïm “Yves Saint Laurent”
Conversations about Art # 2
Laurence Benaïm has written a biography of Yves Saint Laurent, published by Grasset in 2002. She is a French journalist and writer specializing in the field of fashion.
Monday, November 26, 2018 at 7:00 pm
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech
Lecture given by Olivier Gabet “The Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent Style”
Conversations about Art # 1
General curator of French heritage and art historian Olivier Gabet served as director of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris before being appointed director of the decorative arts department at the Louvre Museum in 2022.
Monday, November 2, 2018
Auditorium Pierre Bergé, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech