David Bloch Gallery

This guide to David Bloch Gallery in Marrakesh follows the space that opened on rue des Vieux Marrakchis in 2010, betting on graffiti writers and street photographers at a moment when Moroccan collectors mostly wanted safe, decorative canvases. You'll hear about the French Moroccan artist Vincent Abadie Hafez, who tags as Kouka and fuses Arabic calligraphy with graffiti lettering, and about the more than a hundred exhibitions the gallery mounted before its original room closed in 2022. It even once gave a wall to Steve McCurry, the photographer behind the Afghan Girl portrait.