Georgina Maxim

Georgina Maxim (b. 1981 Zimbabwe), is known for her work as both artist and curator and for co-founding Village Unhu, an artist-run space in Harare that provide studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs. In her art practice Maxim uses embroidery, sewing and weaving techniques to deconstruct and recompose second-hand and handed down clothing. In this way she creates singular works that elude definition: rich, poetic expressions written in thread; acts of memory; records of time. She speaks of her process as a kind of healing, through stitches. In February 2024 Maxim's work will be exhibited at the Barbican, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in the travelling exhibition: Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art. In 2019 she presented an installation for the Zimbabwe pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale and completed her master’s degree at University of Bayreuth, deepening her curatorial process. In 2020, she exhibited at the Musée Bargoin (Clermont-Ferrand) and presented her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021, and at the MuCAT.

In 2023, Maxim was awarded the prestigious Fondation H residency in Madagascar and exhibited work in the exhibition O Quilombiso at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. In 2025 Maxim’s work was shown at the Perrotin Gallery, Paris in FEMMES, a new exhibition curated by the multidisciplinary creative Pharrell Williams.

Two Hearts In One, 2022, Mixed media, textile, 85cm by 95cm by 8cm (approx)