ACHRAF TOULOUB
b. 1986, MoroccoAchraf Touloub’s painting does not express thought so much as construct it. His practice draws on the Persian miniature, where figure, architecture and ornament share one surface and no element stands apart from the whole. Touloub carries this logic into the present. His lines connect bodies to landscapes and the visible to what moves beneath it: flows of capital, information and populations. The individual appears as a membrane, open to what exceeds it in a spiritual sense, and in a modern one a node in a network, crossed by forces it cannot see. Figures merge with their settings, form with ground, the near with the far. The works are composed as constellations, to be navigated rather than read.
Achraf Touloub, born 1986 in Casablanca, Morocco, lives and works in Paris. He graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2013.
Solo exhibitions and projects include: Pleiades, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2026); By a ciphered fall, Public Gallery, London (2025); Traité de Métamorphose, Parliament, Paris (2024); ‘Assabīya, Plan B, Berlin (2022); Les Arrivées, Centre d’art contemporain PASSERELLE, Brest (2021); Art Club #30 Achraf Touloub, Villa Medici, Rome (2019); European Night, Plan B, Berlin (2019); CONT’D, Plan B, Berlin (2016); standard condition, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels (2015); Latent, Plan B, Berlin (2014).
Group exhibitions include: The Enduring Line, Shin Gallery, New York (2026); Past through there, Maraya Art Center, Sharjah (2026); IT’S NO CRIME TO TICKLE TIME 20 Years of Plan B, Galeria Plan B, Berlin (2025); 00:00:01, Public Gallery, London (2025); Liquid life, Musee Departemental D’Art Contemporain Chateau De Rochechouart, Rochechouart (2024); Le retour, Musée régional d’art contemporain Occitanie (Mrac), Sérignan (2023); Es-senze, Museo di Palazzo Mocenigo, Venice (2022); Landscape in a Convex Mirror, Art Encounters Biennial, Timisoara (2021); Anticorps, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2020); Iulia Nistor and Achraf Touloub. Space (Continuation and End), Rezidenta BRD Scena9, Bucharest (2019); Baltic Triennial 13: Give Up the Ghost, Tallinn (2018); The World on Paper, Deutsche Bank Collection, Berlin (2018); Night was paper and we were ink, Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah (2018); Auguries, Art space Geumcheon, Seoul (2017); Viva Arte Viva, 57th Venice Biennale (2017); 100 chefs-d’oeuvre de l’art moderne et contemporain arabe. La collection Barjeel, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris (2017); Mutations-Creations / Imprimer le monde, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2017); Dissolve into a red dwarf, Island, Brussels (2017); Art Club #12/ Folies d’hiver, Villa Medici, Rome (2016); Cher(e)s Ami(e)s. New presentation of works from the collection, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2016); Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Kochi (2016); Club of Matinee Idolz, CO2, Turin (2015); Des hommes, des mondes, College des Bernardins, Paris (2014).
Courtesy Galeria Plan B
Works at Galeria Plan B
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