We are proud to announce a solo exhibition of new work by the extraordinary Zimbabwean artist, Georgina Maxim, The multi-versed Maxim is one of Zimbabwe's, and Africa's, most important voices - visual artist, curator and also co-founder of the art collective Village Unhu. This will be her first solo exhibition in the UK since 2017 with Sulger Buel Gallery in London.
Born 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe, Georgina Maxim is both an Artist and curator. In 2012, she co-founded Village Unhu, an artist-run space in Harare that provides studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for young and professional artists.
Maxim produces work from cotton and woollen threads and pre-worn items of clothing. The practice of handing down clothing in Zimbabwe is a ritually symbolic gesture and she both plays with and respects these traditions as well as breaking from them with purely abstract forms. The work is colourful and bright but its uniform and abundant stitches and guarded titles hint at a displacement of emotion and finding refuge in the act of making itself.
After graduating from the University of Chinhoyi, Maxim taught Visual Arts for several years at Prince Edward School and managed the legendary Gallery Delta (alongside the pioneering Artist Helen Lieros and gallerist Derek Huggins).
In 2018, Georgina Maxim was nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan) and was awarded first prize in the exhibition Woman at the Top at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (2014). Her work has been exhibited internationally at Mojo Gallery in Dubai, 31 PROJECT in Paris and Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia along with multiple galleries in Zimbabwe.
In 2019, Georgina Maxim presented an installation for the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. That same year, she took a master’s degree at the University of Bayreuth (to deepen her curatorial practice). Additionally, she undertook a creative residency at the Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia.
In 2020, she exhibited at the Bargoin Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) and in 2021 presented her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA.
In April 2022 she exhibits a series of new work in a solo show at Koop Projects in Brighton, UK.
