Fatima-Ezzahra El Khammas
Graphic Design, Research, Writing & Publishing

CONTACT
Email
Are.na
Instagram

SERVICES
Graphic Design
Web design / development
Identity Development
Art / editorial direction

WORKED WITH
Archive Books
Artishok Biennale
Black Archive Germany
Ch[a]rita
Dar Bellarj
EKA Gallery
EKA GD MA
Faustin Linyekula
Forum Wood Building Baltic
Harvest Festival
Hiba Dahibi
Juss Heinsalu
Kärt Ojavee
Kitkit Para
Laura Martens
Léa Morin
Lieven Lahaye
Linnea Lindgren
Mia Felic
Oussama Sbaa
Paks Margareeta
Siniya Research
The Minority Globe
Tizintizwa Collective
Yasmina Reggad
Zoé Komkommer

ABOUT

Fatima-Ezzahra El Khammas is a graphic designer based in Casablanca. Her practice moves between graphic design, research, writing, and publishing, with a focus on archives and the histories of radical and political visual culture in Morocco and the Maghreb. She graduated from the MA Graphic Design programme at the Estonian Academy of Arts in 2025 and founded ta[kh]zine in 2024, a research and publishing project dedicated to independent editorial practices and political image-making. Her clients and collaborators often include cultural workers and art institutions, artists, filmmakers, writers, neighbors and friends.

UPCOMING

24.10.2026—30.10.2026
Le Cœur Sur La Langue, with Katrin Ströbel, Dimitri Moudar and Karima El Karmoudi
Exhibition-workshop supported by Le Cube – independent art space, Rabat, Goethe-Institut Maroc, INBA Tétouan and ABK Stuttgart (Rabat, Morocco)

07.04.2027—07.05.2027
Isha3at Residency at Rue de Tanger with Oussama Sbaa
Programme initiated by Kimiā Collective (Casablanca, Morocco)

EDUCATION

Master in Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn
Bachelor in Graphic Design at L'École Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech
Bachelor in Architecture at the Rabat School of Architecture in Rabat

WORKSHOPS / LECTURES

2026
Participative drawing and printmaking workshop with The Minority Globe’s community, contributing to the development of the association's new visual identity (Casablanca, Morocco)

2025
Design in Relations, talk with Naïma Ben Ayed for the first edition of Graphic Design Month: Herrek L’ma Yban L’aatshan! organized by LE 18 Marrakech and Think Tanger (Tangier, Morocco)

Guest speaker at the course Visual Literacy, taught by Piibe Kolka at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Tallinn, Estonia)

2024
Lecture around the research process for ta[kh]zine at the first edition of Fair Enough Book Fair, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (Tallinn, Estonia)

EXHIBITIONS

2026
LOBI : A Speculative Season Towards A Panafrican Otherwise, installation at LE 18 Marrakech with Amina Belghiti and Faustin Linyekula part of the exhibition Organic Knowledge, The Spider: Savior, Killer and The Creator (Marrakech, Morocco)

2025
Print Muscle, the 19th Tallinn Print Triennial Youth Exhibition at EKA Gallery featuring 3 ediitons of ta[kh]zine (Tallinn, Estonia)

Cover, Show graduation exhibition of the 2023—2025 cohort of the MA graphic design programme at EKA (Tallinn, Estonia)

2024
The Archive of M.M., exhibition and workshop co-organized with Rok Ifko Krajnc for students of the EKA graphic design BA program, at the Estonian Museum of Applied Arts and Design (Tallinn, Estonia)

Les Agitateurs Créatifs, graduation exhibition of the 2021—2023 cohort of the BA graphic design programme at ESAV

RESIDENCIES / ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

2026
Residency at Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, Art.ibat programme supported by IF Maroc (Paris, France)

Awardee of the first Cairo Art Book Fair First Time Exhibitor Award, edition 5 (Cairo, Egypt)

WRITING

    Fetish of the document, ongoing text contribution to LEIDA: Issue No.9 – Making Trouble (Tallinn, Estonia)

    Asilah in Print, commissioned by Blackburn Study Center for the catalogue of the exhibition Asilah Oui: Robert Blackburn in Morocco (New York, USA)

    Cut-out, contribution to Santiago da Silva, “Something Other than Work”, published by APPLIED WORK and EKA GD MA (Tallinn, Estonia—Berlin, Germany)

    3rab(izi), contribution to Typing..., EKA GD MA (Tallinn, Estonia)

    Third Space, MA thesis published by EKA GD MA (Tallinn, Estonia)