Hassan Hajjaj Brings 40 Pop Portraits to Philharmonie de Paris in 'My Rock Stars'

Key facts

• Exhibition 'Hassan Hajjaj. My Rock Stars' runs from 22 September 2026 to 25 April 2027 at the Musée de la Musique, Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris.
• The show presents 40 portraits of personalities including Billie Eilish, Madonna, Rachid Taha, Lee Scratch Perry, Cardi B, Alicia Keys, Keziah Jones, Ba Bohot, Amadou et Mariam, and Wu-Tang Clan members.
• Hassan Hajjaj was born in 1961 in Larache, Morocco, and moved to Islington, London, at age thirteen.
• Hajjaj's artistic practice involves recycling, such as framing portraits with tin cans and using stacked drink crates as furniture; scenography is by Georgiana Savuta-Idier.
• Rachid Taha gave Hajjaj the nickname 'Andy Wahloo,' a play on Andy Warhol and the Moroccan Arabic phrase 'andi walou' ('I have nothing').
• The exhibition includes a section dedicated to gnawa music, featuring tbel drums and a guembri lute from the museum's collection.
• Acid Arab created a 45-minute original soundtrack for the exhibition, available as a cassette at the bookshop.
• An Acid Arab concert is scheduled for 10 March 2027 at 20:00, preceded at 19:30 by an ESMOD student fashion show inspired by Hajjaj; a catalogue is published by Éditions Textuel (160 pages, €39).