Mohamed Lekleti Taza, b. 1965

Overview
Mohamed Lekleti, Unis sous un nuage , 2024
Mohamed Lekleti, Unis sous un nuage , 2024
Mohamed Lekleti was born in Taza, Morocco.
He lives and works in Montpellier. He holds a DEUG in Cinema from the University of Montpellier and a master’s degree in fine arts from the University of Aix-en-Provence.
With a narrative and poetic approach, Mohamed Lekleti’s works carry a profound political, social, and cultural dimension. His art, in constant movement, questions the world, power, the duality of human nature, territorial belonging, immigration, and exile. It operates through a hybridization of different formal, conceptual, and fictional registers. His work transcends the fixed boundaries imposed by canvas or paper by multiplying associations and intertwinings, creating various polysemies, oxymorons, and allegories that blur perceptions and challenge certainties.
These iconographic motifs, among others, are deliberately integrated into his works to provoke reflection and encourage the viewer to explore the multiple dimensions of his artistic message. Through evocative and symbolic imagery, Mohamed Lekleti transcends the limits of verbal language to communicate complex ideas about the human condition and contemporary socio-political issues.
 
Mohamed Lekleti is one of the emblematic artists of contemporary drawing in France and Morocco. He has participated in numerous exhibitions, including the Palazzo delle Belle Arti in Turin (2012); the Fortress of Salses (MNF), where he explored the notion of borders in “Visa pour un territoire” (2013); the Blachère Foundation in Apt with Fuir (2017); the Paul Valéry Museum in Sète with “Me suis-je égaré” (2018); the Art Center À Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde in Perpignan with “Khamsa” (2019); ISBA in Besançon with “Simorgh” (2020); the Arab World Institute Museum with “Dessins du Monde Arabe” (2021); and La Panacée/MOCCO Museum with “SOL!” (2023). In 2023, his work was showcased at the MAC Lyon in the exhibition “Incarnations: The Body”; in the MNAC Lisbon Collection « Bleu et autres couleurs », at the Mohamed VI Museum in “110 ans, 110 œuvres” from the Fondation Société Générale collection.
His works are part of numerous public and private collections, including the Arab World Institute Museum in Paris, MAC Lyon, FRAC Picardie, CNAP, the Detroit Museum (USA), the Mohamed VI Museum in Rabat, the Société Générale Foundation, the Blachère Foundation, the Art Center À Cent Mètres du Centre du Monde, the Kamel Lazaar Foundation (Tunisia/Switzerland), and the Al Maaden Museum (MACAAL) in Marrakech.
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Exhibitions
Collections

COLLECTIONS

FRAC Picardie

Musée de Detroit -Detroit institute of arts USA

Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (MAC)

Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP)

Musée de l'institut du monde arabe (Paris)

Fondation société générale

Musée Mohamed VI Rabat Maroc

Musée Paul Valery Sète

Fondation Blachère Apt

Musée Frissiras Athènes Grèce

Fondation Al Quatan (Londres / Berlin /Palestine)

Fondation Kamel Lazaar ( Tunisie/Suisse)

Musée d'art contemporain africain  Al Maaden (MACAAL ) Marrakech Maroc

Centre d'art contemporain « à cent mètres du centre du monde » Perpignan

Musée d'art d'Agadir Maroc

Collection royale Royaume du Maroc

Fondation Claude Lemand Paris

Collection Art vif Région Occitanie

Musée MACMA Marrakech Maroc

 

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS FOR EPHEMERAL WORKS

2013  Ville de Carcassonne (Musée des beaux-arts dans le cadre du parcours d'art contemporain)

2011  Ville de Valence /Lycée Montplaisir

2008  Ville de Koblenz (Allemagne) Nuit des musées en Allemagne

2006 Ville de Sète

2003 Ville de Frontignan