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Borderlands Art

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Contemporary art gallery, focused on social and environmental art from Uganda and beyond.

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Borderlands Art presents 𝘖𝘶𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘴 𝘎𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘪𝘭, a specially curated exhibition consisting of artworks all made from barkcloth, an old, non-woven textile crafted from the inner bark of the Mutuba tree by the Baganda people of southern Uganda.

👉 Swipe to explore more.  🎟️Get your tickets via the link in our bio   📍Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, United Kingdom    🗓️VIP and Press Preview:  Thursday 15 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠  ⁠  🗓️Public and VIP Opening:  Friday 16 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠  Saturday 17 October, 11 am - 7 pm⁠  Sunday 18 October, 11 am - 6 pm⁠    #154artfair⁠ #ContemporaryAfricanArt by @borderlandsarts

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Our Booth for Atlanta Art Fair is a story about materials. From kyenkyen, to lubugo, to cotton, to rubber, to paper.

The group presentation takes collectors on a journey from the DR Congo, to Uganda, to Ghana, to Benin and across the globe to the UK.

One more day to wow Atlanta audiences with the rich storytelling from Africa and the diaspora.
@studioalexandrekyungu_ @studio_gaelmaski @charity.atukunda @piloyairene88 @othellodesouzahartley @laeila.iyabo.adjovi
📍Booth A10
Pullman Yards, 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30317 taken in Pullman Yards by @borderlandsarts

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So excited to make our London debut @154artfair in their Special Projects.

📍 Booth W12
15th – 18th October, 2026
West Wing, Somerset House, London

Borderlands Art, a woman led gallery that engages artists and themes of environment and social impact, presents Our Canvas Grows From The Soil. Linking practices between Uganda and Ghana, the works are all made from the medium of barkcloth (lubugo, tenga, kyenkyen).

In the display filled exclusively with barkcloth artworks, Fred Mutebi brings his new practice of working on tenga canvas. Gloria Kiconco and Piloya Irene will present sculptural zines, poetic pages, and textiles that come from forest-embedded installations. Othello De’Souza-Hartley shares his series that uses barkcloth as a canvas for photographic printing and textured painting, marking a diasporic site of connection across place and identity.

These artists work against conventional painting methods and instead use barkcloth as a point of communion between contemporary social practice and ancestral material practices. @piloyairene88 @gloria.kiconco @othellodesouzahartley @fredkatomutebi

VIP and Press Preview: Thursday 15 October, 11:00 – 19:00
Public and VIP Opening: Friday 16 October, 11:00 – 19:00 Saturday 17 October, 11:00 – 19:00 Sunday 18 October, 11:00 – 18:00

📍 Booth W12
16th – 18th October, 2026
West Wing, Somerset House, London taken in Somerset House by @borderlandsarts

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11 days ago

Saturday at #AtlantaArtFair ⚡️

Join us at @prattpullmandistrict to experience presentations ranging from intimate to monumental scale, catch ongoing discussions in the @freemansauctions Theater, and collect official fair merchandise via @bekind.atl x @artistic.logistics .

During your visit, stop by @edmondshonorbourbon to sample Edmond’s Honor Madagascar Vanilla Bourbon and view featured artwork by Melissa A. Mitchell (@abeillecreations).

We’re open until 7PM today. Plan your visit at the link in bio ➔ by @borderlandsarts

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So many great conversations @atlartfair. Can't wait for Sunday when our Curator @karablackmore will be speaking with @faronmanuel @fahamupecou and @drpcurates

African art is gaining prominence in Atlanta through the growth of institutional collections, cross-continental residencies, and the presentation of African galleries at the Art Fair. This expanding exchange creates borderless perspectives on heritage, identity, and aesthetics. In this talk, Dr Fahamu Pecou, Faron Manuel and Dr Kara Blackmore discuss their practices. They will reflect on the ecosystems they have built with African artists in the United States and across the African continent, helping to sustain connections between Africa and the diaspora. The conversation, moderated by Brandy Pettijohn, considers black ecologies. They will dive into what it means for the art world to move slowly, to build relationships and networks, and to invest in care. Together, the speakers offer a clear alternative to models that treat artworks as commodities or artists as resources. Their work provides spaces for art as a practice of continuity and renewal.

🗓️ Sunday, October 4, 2026 
🕰️12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
📍Freeman’s Theater at 2026 Atlanta Art Fair
Pullman Yards, 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30317
Link in Bio

*Artwork, @charityatukunda ‘What do they really think?’ digital kanga print on organic cotton 150x120cm. by @borderlandsarts

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The sensitive environmental and biographical work of Piloya Irene (@piloyairene88) will be on show at @atlartfair.

Opening Today!

The display features her series ‘Yesterday Is Gone’. This series of silkscreen prints on Ghanian kyenkyen textile re-imagines home in Gulu and Kumasi in the same frame. Portraits document the process of making Kyenkyen, moving between domestic and familiar spaces. There are glimpses into the daily lives amongst the kyenkyen trees. The prints also capture moments in time that show a self reflection on the life of an artist-mother in Gulu. Together the prints tell of an intimate and collective social portrait stretching across the continent. Each piece archives the intergenerational knowledge, labour and gathering that is embedded in the series.

Piloya Irene is an artist and educator living and working in Uganda. She uses sculpture, painting and film to explore personal experience of displacement and its effects on memory and history in relation to place, identity and belonging. She draws inspiration from her own biography and the networked relationships found in nature. Piloya holds a master’s degree in Sculpture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana and a Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Fine Art and Design from Uganda Christian University. Her work has been exhibited across Uganda, as well as in Ghana, Germany and Belgium.

📍Booth A10
Pullman Yards, 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30317
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🗓️1-4October
Select VIP Preview Thursday, October 1: 4–6pm
Opening Evening presented by @rbcwealth_us (RBC Wealth Management) Thursday, October 1: 6–9pm
Public Days  Friday, October 2: 11am—7pm Saturday, October 3: 11am—7pm Sun taken in Pullman Yards by @borderlandsarts

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@borderlandsarts returns to #Atlanta with a group presentation bringing together artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Ghana, and the United Kingdom.

Across four distinct practices, @studioalexandrekyungu_, @othellodesouzahartley, @piloyairene88, and @studio_gaelmaski connect African pasts to imagined futures through masterful making, memory, and diasporic identity.

Featured works span reclaimed rubber, barkcloth, collage, and textile techniques.

Preview and plan your visit to discover more at Booth A10 during #AtlantaArtFair2026 →

#AtlantaArtFair | Pullman Yards | October 1 – 4 by @borderlandsarts

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17 days ago

Come see us at the Atlanta Art Fair to experience the amazing work of @studioalexandrekyungu_ from the Nzoloko Series

At a time of travel restrictions and mass migration, this work is an essential commentary on borders and the symbolic meaning of materials.

Nzoloko, the Lingala word for scarification, means to scratch, etch, burn, mark or superficially engrave drawings, images or words on the skin. It is this word that creates an underpinning philosophy for Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe’s work in rubber. The incisions leave behind permanent alterations to the body, forever marking a person's identity, origin and history. Kyungu Mwilambwe’s practice invokes the acts of scarification to serve as an intermediary element linking his ancestral African identity to cartography. He confronts issues of accessibility, encounter and mobility by linking different materials with modes of making.

As a cartographic essay, the series opens borders by making maps permeable. It connects materials historically connected to the DRC but mostly made in Indonesia and the Phillipses then shipped across the world to Kinshasa. The reclaimed rubber comes from automotive shops across the city. Collecting them helps to build a relationship between the sellers and the material. Kyungu Mwilambwe reflects these people’s stories, the context of global rubber production, and fuses them with his own journey across different geographies.

Alexandre Kyungu Mwilambwe is a visual artist living and working in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo. His artistic practice combines painting, drawing, sculpture and installation to address notions of migration and identity, borders and space, using signs and symbols as representational agents. He uses doors and rubber as support and subject to link the themes of urban cartography and body scarification in order to create an imaginary landscape.

📍Booth A10
Pullman Yards, 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30317

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🗓️1-4October
Select VIP Preview Thursday, October 1: 4–6pm
Opening Evening presented by @rbcwealth_us (RBC Wealth Management) Thursday, October 1: 6–9pm
Public Days  Friday, October 2: 11am—7pm Saturday, October 3: 11am— taken in Pullman Yards by @borderlandsarts

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Super excited to be debuting the series 'Within' by @othellodesouzahartley at @atlartfair

Within is an exploration of cultural identity and the importance of listening to local voices and traditions in contemporary art-making. It reflects the relationship between youth, culture and diasporic creativity. Deploying his work in fashion, British-Caribbean artists Othello De’Souza-Hartley set up a collaborative studio during his residency in Uganda @32degreeseast. Situated in one of Kampalas most diverse neighbourhoods, he used the studio as a staging ground for conversations about gender, identity and tradition. De’Souza-Hartley met people aware that prominent traditional materials, and points of cultural pride, were being eroded for more modern materials and consumption.

Othello De'Souza-Hartley is a London-based interdisciplinary artist working across photography, moving image, painting, drawing, and performance. The human body sits at the core of his practice, as a direct subject, as a metaphor, and a surface that holds memory. Applying minimal gestures to maximum effect, his work finds meaning within shadows and imperfection.

📍Booth A10
Pullman Yards, 225 Rogers Street Northeast, Atlanta, GA 30317

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🗓️1-4October
Select VIP Preview Thursday, October 1: 4–6pm
Opening Evening presented by @rbcwealth_us (RBC Wealth Management) Thursday, October 1: 6–9pm
Public Days  Friday, October 2: 11am—7pm Saturday, October 3: 11am—7pm Sunday, October 4: 11am—6pm by @borderlandsarts

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19 days ago

Poetry reading by @gloria.kiconco before the closing of Poetics In Print.

She will share extracts from two years of unpublished poems, followed by a tour of the exhibition and Q&A with the artist.

Saturday 15th August
Venue: Latitude 0º
Time: 16:00-18:00

*The Translucent Man, 2025, Film by @ug_titann taken in Latitude 0 by @borderlandsarts

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You are invited to a poetry reading as our closing event for Poetics In Print. by @gloria.kiconco

📅 Saturday 15 August 2026
📍Latitude 0º, Makindye, Kampala @latitude0kampala
⏰16:00-18:00

Set within the solo exhibition Poetics In Print, Gloria Kiconco will be reading from two years of unpublished poems. She will take audiences on a poetic tour of the creation of the series that are on display: Cardinal Directions and Negative Spaces. The poems selected for the reading are companions to the exhibited artworks, enlivening the stories of love and perseverance.

Schedule
16:00 Arrival - Coffee and bites
16:30 Reading - Gloria Kiconco
17:00 Exhibition Tour -Gloria Kiconco
17:30 Q&A with Gloria Kiconco and Helga Rainer

DM to confirm your attendance or email info@borderlandsart.com for more info.

See you soon taken in Latitude 0 by @borderlandsarts

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Poetics In Print
Solo Exhibition of work by @gloria.kiconco
Opening Tomorrow 20th June, 2026
With a special reading by the artist

📍 Latitude 0º
🕰 16:30-19:00
Presented by: Borderlands Art

This solo exhibition by Gloria Kiconco showcases a series of sculptural zines and limited edition prints. Kiconco’s new work breathes light into stories and provides a contemporary texture to Uganda’s heritage.

Gloria Kiconco is a multifaceted artist — a poet, essayist, and zine-artist from Kampala, Uganda. Gloria has published her writings, magazines, books and unique artworks. She shares her work through self-publishing spoken word performances, readings, and audio compilations in collaboration with music producers.

Image: Close up of “A Poorly Woven Man”, 2026
Lightbox with lubugo barkcloth, parchment and vellum papers
Edition of 3 taken in Latitude 0 by @borderlandsarts

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