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Curator Okuzigiramu Thematic pavilion @maltabiennale.art

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Title : Where the Clouds form
Artist: Kigozi Axum
Size: 160cm x 135cm
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year : 2026

Available for sell.

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Echoes in Motion
Where rhythm becomes movement, memory and identity meet.
Charcoal & acrylic on canvas · 4 × 6 ft · 2026
Ivan KIZINDO

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Meet @broganmwesigwa one of the @eavaartists Artists mentor. Art is skill that needs mentoring, when young artists come to the residency, the don’t only learn from their fellow artists but from people who have ben in the industry.

Come through and see what the artists have produced. And know why mentorship is key to every artist’s growth.

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Ready for the @eavaartists Residency Exhibition?

Last year's residency produced powerful work that sparked conversation, challenged perspectives, and connected audiences to the issues shaping our communities today.

This October, experience what the 2026 resident artists have been creating.

Join us at the Human Rights Are Universal Arts Festival and discover how artists are responding to the challenges of our time through creativity, reflection, and dialogue.

📍 Xenson Art Space, Kampala
📅 9-13 October 2026

Don't just see the artwork. Meet the ideas, stories, and people behind it.

#threadsofbelonging #eavaartistsresidency #ugandaarts #contemporaryartwork

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This week - FRIDAY. @dennis_kasagga_ Solo show

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“Share this poster when you see it”
@vodoarts @ebya_ssebakijje solo exhibition, watch the space

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“IAM BECAUSE WE ARE” ~ Ubuntu Saying.
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KLUBB AFRO - LINK UP
AT NORDNES
#bergen #norway #klubbafro #africa #afrobeats

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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
@vodoarts for everything
@rosamartinezcurator the curator of the maltabiennale.art
2026
@maltabiennale.art for the opportunity.

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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

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What’s holding you back?
It’s time to step up and move your art career to the next level.

How is your art practice going?
Are you struggling to bring your ideas to life or turn your concepts into finished work? If so, this is your time.

Apply now for the #eavaartistsresidency.
Link in bio.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS.

EAVA Artists Residency 2026
Threads of Belonging

For emerging & mid-career visual artists in Uganda.
Deadline: 15 March 2026

Share with every Artists. #threadsofbelongings #eavaartistsresidency #humanrightsartsug

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Art has always been a force for truth. At Human Rights Are Universal Arts Festival, we see it every day in paintings that expose pollution, in performances that confront injustice, and in young creators who dare to imagine a freer future.

But behind every bold artwork is even bigger question many artists quietly ask.
“If my art speaks truth to power… who will protect me when the truth is uncomfortable?”

This question is not a sign of fear.
It’s a reminder of why our work matters.

Freedom of expression is not guaranteed.
Artists are brave but they should never be brave alone.

Our commitment is simple:
To create spaces where creativity is safe. Where artists are supported, not silenced.
Where courageous voices are not left to stand alone.

Art can ignite change but the movement grows stronger when we protect the people who create it.

Together, we can build a future where artistic expression is defended, celebrated, and fearlessly practiced.

Support artists safety.

#humanrightsartsfestivalug #ArtForChange #FreedomOfExpression #CreativeVoices #UgandaArts #ProtectTheArtist

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