Museum Cobra is pleased to announce that the first major Cobra exhibition in Morocco will be on view from October 30, 2024 through March 3, 2025 at the prestigious Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat. This unique exhibition, called Cobra: A Multi-headed Snake, is the result of a special collaboration between Museum Cobra and the Moroccan museum led by Mr. Mehdi Qotbi, right hand man of the King of Morocco and director of the Fondation Nationale des Musées, and Mr. Abdelaziz Elidrissi, director of the museum.
Following the success of the exhibition The Other Story: Art from Moroccan Modernism in 2022 in Amstelveen, in which an important part of the collection of the Mohamed VI Museum was shown, this year a large part of the Cobra collection travels to Rabat. The exhibition includes some 100 artworks, supplemented by archival material, and emphasizes the official Cobra period (1948-1951), but earlier and later works of the movement will also be presented.
“Cobra: A Multi-Headed Snake ” offers a multifaceted view of the Cobra movement, focusing on diverse and sometimes contradictory views of the movement. In addition to Dutch Cobra works, the Moroccan museum will also show modernist works from their own collection, revealing the fascinating cross-pollination between the two countries.
What makes this exhibition in Rabat extra special is that the Cobra works will be presented alongside Moroccan modernist works from the collection of the Mohamed VI Museum. This reveals shared themes of both European and Moroccan art in which freedom, experimentation and engagement are central. The exhibition has been made possible through collaborations with the Dutch and Moroccan embassies, as well as Dutch Culture, Centre for International Cooperation, and the Reinwardt Academy in Amsterdam.
This exhibition will open on October 30, 2024 at Mohamed VI Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rabat, Morocco. Keep following us via museumcobra.nl or our social media channels and discover how Cobra continues to inspire to this day!