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BENNANI Kim
- Morocco - Born : 1972 in Tetouan
Kim Bennani is a Moroccan painter born in Tétouan in 1972. Drawn to artistic creation from an early age, he won first prize at the Chan Kars International Children Competition in New Delhi, India, at the age of eleven.
He entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Tétouan before continuing and completing his training in Spain at the School of Applied Arts in Málaga. Eager to assert a distinct pictorial identity, he initially moved away from abstraction to explore a form of figuration pushed toward hyperrealism, an approach that marked his early years of artistic practice.
Over time, Kim Bennani freed himself from academic constraints to develop a more liberated expression, reconciling figuration and abstraction. Landscape became the core of his research, conceived as a presence that is both tangible and fragile, revealing the essence of existence. His works invite viewers to travel through timeless spaces, bathed in diffuse light and infinite horizons.
Since 1999, he has exhibited regularly in Morocco as well as in France, Spain, and England. He is also the first Moroccan artist to have been invited to work by the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny.
BENNANI Kim
- Morocco - Born : 1972 in Tetouan
Kim Bennani is a Moroccan painter born in Tétouan in 1972. Drawn to artistic creation from an early age, he won first prize at the Chan Kars International Children Competition in New Delhi, India, at the age of eleven.
He entered the École des Beaux-Arts of Tétouan before continuing and completing his training in Spain at the School of Applied Arts in Málaga. Eager to assert a distinct pictorial identity, he initially moved away from abstraction to explore a form of figuration pushed toward hyperrealism, an approach that marked his early years of artistic practice.
Over time, Kim Bennani freed himself from academic constraints to develop a more liberated expression, reconciling figuration and abstraction. Landscape became the core of his research, conceived as a presence that is both tangible and fragile, revealing the essence of existence. His works invite viewers to travel through timeless spaces, bathed in diffuse light and infinite horizons.
Since 1999, he has exhibited regularly in Morocco as well as in France, Spain, and England. He is also the first Moroccan artist to have been invited to work by the Claude Monet Foundation in Giverny.
