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Wamala Nyanzi Andrew

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Curator Okuzigiramu Thematic pavilion @maltabiennale.art

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Welcome to my creative process. 🖐🏾✨

#BlockPrinting #Printmaking #BehindTheScenes #ArtReels #CreativeProcess by @mrnyanzi

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Sneak peek of Whats happening in my solo art exhibition {ordnere } Exhibition running for a month 14 August - 16th September 2026 curated by
@okaneeamon happening at studio Furum @kmdbergen

Photo credit @okaneeamon
Thank you all taken in Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB by @mrnyanzi

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ôrdnˌerē

A solo exhibition by Wamala Nyanzi, presenting a body of work developed through the academic exchange between Makerere University and the University of Bergen.

The works document and reflect on lived experiences across two contexts Uganda and Bergen, Norway looking closely at the everyday, the familiar, and the seemingly ordinary moments that shape our sense of place, identity and belonging.

The title ˈôrdnˌerē is derived from the word ordinary meaning normal, usual, or common; describing things or people that lack special status, distinct traits, or surprises. Yet, through this exhibition, the ordinary becomes a space for observation and reflection: what appears common can hold personal histories, cultural differences, encounters, and unexpected meanings.

Curated by
Eamon O’Kane

#printmaking #blockprinting #linocutprint by @mrnyanzi

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Afro Groove at the Crossroads
Woodcut print
2026

The Last Song Before Dawn captures a moment where cultures meet and joy takes center stage. In this woodcut print, I wanted to show how life’s simple pleasures dancing, sharing a drink, and being together can bridge differences and create a sense of belonging. The figures move with energy and freedom, each pose telling a story of connection and celebration. For me, this piece is a reminder that no matter where we come from, happiness is found in the rhythms we share and the spaces where we choose to come alive.

This piece will be available @affordableartshow.ke
Bring your friends and family, and be part of this wonderful weekend of art
21st
@affordableartshow.ke
16th-18th Oct 26
Nairobi National Museum @museumsociety
Opening night * Fri 16th, 4pm!
Sat 17th & Sun 18th 10am-5pm
tickets @kenyabuzz

#blockprints #woodcut #music
#artcollectors by @mrnyanzi

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Studio sound during the creation for
“The Last Song Before Dawn” A glimpse into the process,the repetitions, and the moments that never make it into the final frame.

#printmaker #studiosounds #reliefprint #artdealer taken in Bergen, Norway by @mrnyanzi

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Only a few days left to experience
@maltabiennale.art
Okuzingiramu pavilion featuring works of Yiga Joshua Mulungi and Namata Maria Birungi The Okuzingiramu Pavilion reflects on entanglement, memory, and the invisible ties that shape our lives. Through banana fiber, palm leaves, raffia, and collective histories, the exhibition explores unfinished colonial legacies, survival, connection, and the realities we continue to inherit.

Curated by WAMALA NYANZI

#Okuzingiramu #MaltaBiennale #contemporaryarts #painting taken in Valletta, Malta by @mrnyanzi

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OKUZINGIRAMU Pavilion
@maltabiennale.art

Okuzingiramu is the Luganda word for entanglement a condition of being bound within relationships that cannot be undone without loss. The pavilion reflects on lives shaped through inherited networks of people, materials, histories, and ecologies, under the weight of unfinished colonial legacies and environmental change.

Using materials that carry memory rather than monumentality, the works speak through gesture, craft, and collective histories. Banana fiber, palm leaves, and raffia become traces of touch, labor, play, and survival.

These are not documents of a finished past, but artifacts of an ongoing world reminding us that history remains present, and that separation has always been an illusion.

Okuzingiramu invites us to remain with complexity, to practice awareness, and to inhabit connection with humility and remembrance.

Curated by : WAMALA NYANZI

Artists : Yiga Joshua Mulungi
Namata Maria Birungi

#Okuzingiramu #MaltaBiennale #ContemporaryArt #UgandanArt AfricanArt ArtInstallation MemoryAndMaterial Entanglement Biennale #heritagemalta taken in Valleta, Malta by @mrnyanzi

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Under His Hand

I created this piece as a reflection on the Ugandan Saloon (barbershop) as a lived social space. A black-and-white relief print captures the quiet tension between a barber and a boy.
The hand steadies, holding not only a head but also trust and control. the barbershop shapes identity as much as their appearance.
#Printmaking #AfricanBarbershop #ReliefPrint #RiteOfPassage #ContemporaryAfricanArt taken in Fakultet for kunst, musikk og design, UiB by @mrnyanzi

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“Okuzingiramu” is the Luganda word for entanglement: a state of being caught within relations that cannot be untwined without loss.

The duo exhibition brings together works by Yiga Joshua and Namata Birungi.
The pavilion unfolds as a meditation on life lived within dense, inherited networks of people, materials, histories, and ecologies, under the pressure of unfinished colonial legacies and accelerating environmental change. Set within a site shaped by military power, trade, and imperial circulation, the exhibition reads the present as already burdened by the past and the future as something we are actively entangling ourselves in. History here is not archival; it is a living condition that continues to shape attentiveness.

The artists in Okuzingiramu work with materials and gestures that carry memory rather than monumentality.
Yiga Joshua’s banana-fiber dolls draw on childhood practices of collective play, in which figures are made, shared, and remade. These fragile forms serve as relics of communal imagination, records of touch, repetition, and survival through play and togetherness. Namata Birungi works with palm leaves (nsansa) and raffia (obuso), materials associated with domestic craft and quiet maintenance.

Through weaving and knotting, she produces suspended structures that resemble shelters, networks, or unfinished supports, evoking systems that hold bodies and communities without ever fully revealing themselves.
The works operate as artifacts of an ongoing world rather than documents of a concluded one. Temporally unanchored, Okuzingiramu approaches the present as if seen from a future that has learned, too late, that separation was an illusion.
Entanglement is not framed as catastrophe alone but as a fragile possibility: an ethical invitation to remain with complexity, to practice awareness within different constraints, and to inhabit connection without mastery or forgetting.

Visitors are welcome throughout the Biennale to experience the exhibition and its dialogue between material and perception.
Special thanks to
@rosamartinezcurator the curator of the maltabiennale.art 2026
@maltabiennale.art for the opportunity. taken in Valletta, Malta by @mrnyanzi

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Vodo Arts Society and lab is honored to announce the participation of artists Namata Maria Tereza and Joshua Mulungi Yiga in the second edition of the Malta Biennale, titled CLEAN / CLEAR / CUT. The Biennale will take place across various historical sites in Malta and Gozo from 11 March to 29 May 2026.

The Thematic Pavilion, titled OKUZINGIRAMU, will be on view at Fort St Elmo and the National War Museum. Curated by Wamala Nyanzi, the pavilion presents a powerful reflection on entanglement.

"Okuzingiramu" is the Luganda word for entanglement: being caught in or involved in a complex situation that is difficult to separate from.

Joshua Mulungi Yiga works with banana-fiber dolls, drawing on Ugandan childhood traditions in which children shaped fiber into figures and imagined worlds together. His practice carries this play into the present, treating banana fiber as a record of shared gestures and collective presence.

Namata Maria Tereza works with palm leaves (nsansa) and raffia (obuso), using weaving and knotting techniques rooted in Buganda’s domestic craft traditions. By reshaping these materials into suspended, non-functional forms, she repositions them from private utility objects, exposing a support system and revealing how attentiveness and rest are distributed, strained, and shared.

The Malta Biennale is organised by Heritage Malta, in partnership with Arts Council Malta and in collaboration with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry for National Heritage, the Arts, and Local Government, and with VisitMalta.

Malta Biennale 2026
Pavilion Title: OKUZINGIRAMU
Curator: Wamala Nyanzi
Artists: Namata Maria Tereza and Joshua Mulungi Yiga
Location: Fort St Elmo and the National War Museum, Valletta
Dates: 11 March – 29 May 2026 taken in Malta, Italy by @mrnyanzi

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Art belongs to those who feel it, thank you for feeling it for me.
It really feels special to see my Art piece displayed @xensonartspace as part of the Human Rights are Universal Arts festival. @eavaartists thank you
#Defend

#blockprinting #blockprint #printmaking #linocut #handmade #printmaker #art #linoprint #cotton #blockprinted #printmakersofinstagram #blockprints #reliefprint #handblockprint #fashion #sustainablefashion #linocutprint #handprinted #print #handcarved #handblockprinted #cottonsuits #handcrafted #linoprinting#homedecor #humanrights#uganda by @mrnyanzi

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“Beyond the Arch”

#blockprinting #blockprint #printmaking #linocut #handmade #printmaker #art #linoprint #cotton #blockprinted #printmakersofinstagram #blockprints #reliefprint #handblockprint #fashion #sustainablefashion #linocutprint #handprinted #print #handcarved #handblockprinted #cottonsuits #handcrafted #lino #linoprinting #onlineshopping #homedecor #handcarvedstamp #jaipur #ajrakh taken in Makerere, Kampala, Uganda by @mrnyanzi

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