Country
Zimbabwe
Georgina Maxim (born 1980) is a Zimbabwean artist and curator who lives and works in Harare and Mutare, Zimbabwe and studied at University of Bayreuth, Germany (MA/AVVA) and Chinhoyi University in Zimbabwe. She develops here artistic practice around textiles, using techniques as varied as sewing, weaving, embroidery and crochet to (re)bring used clothes to life. Georgina Maxim is also the co-founder and co-director of Village Unhu in Milton Park, Harare and in Mutare, Zimbabwe; an arts space offering residency programs, exhibitions, workshops and studio spaces.
Her recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Biennale Arte 2026 In minor Keys by the late Koyo Kouoh: solo exhibitions: Button Gallery Nordenhake, Mexico City 2025, Winter Wonders Goodman Gallery London 2024: group exhibitions: Kaaraalines Vers, Muset for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, 2025: Femmes curated by Pharrel Williams, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, 2024, group exhibitions and art fairs with 31 Project, Paris 2020-25; Memoria: récits d’une autre histoire, National Museum of Yaoundé, Yaounde, 2023 and Fondation H, Antananarivo 2024, O Quilombismso, O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies Quilombism, 2023; Unravel,The power and politics of textiles in art, Barbican Centre, London and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 2024: A Different Now is Close Enough to Enhale, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 2022; Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London, 2022; 58th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice, 2019. Residencies include, Fondation H, Antananarivo, 2023, Bag Factory, Johnnesburg, 2019, Goethe Institut, Salvdor de Bahia 2018, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva 2017.
Maxim has curated group exhibitions: Village Unhu group exhibitions and art fairs 2019 to date; Kuvhunura, Kupinda ne mwenje mudziva, Fondation Blachere, Bonniuex 2024.
Country
Zimbabwe
Georgina Maxim (born 1980) is a Zimbabwean artist and curator who lives and works in Harare and Mutare, Zimbabwe and studied at University of Bayreuth, Germany (MA/AVVA) and Chinhoyi University in Zimbabwe. She develops here artistic practice around textiles, using techniques as varied as sewing, weaving, embroidery and crochet to (re)bring used clothes to life. Georgina Maxim is also the co-founder and co-director of Village Unhu in Milton Park, Harare and in Mutare, Zimbabwe; an arts space offering residency programs, exhibitions, workshops and studio spaces.
Her recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Biennale Arte 2026 In minor Keys by the late Koyo Kouoh: solo exhibitions: Button Gallery Nordenhake, Mexico City 2025, Winter Wonders Goodman Gallery London 2024: group exhibitions: Kaaraalines Vers, Muset for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, 2025: Femmes curated by Pharrel Williams, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, 2024, group exhibitions and art fairs with 31 Project, Paris 2020-25; Memoria: récits d’une autre histoire, National Museum of Yaoundé, Yaounde, 2023 and Fondation H, Antananarivo 2024, O Quilombismso, O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies Quilombism, 2023; Unravel,The power and politics of textiles in art, Barbican Centre, London and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 2024: A Different Now is Close Enough to Enhale, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 2022; Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London, 2022; 58th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice, 2019. Residencies include, Fondation H, Antananarivo, 2023, Bag Factory, Johnnesburg, 2019, Goethe Institut, Salvdor de Bahia 2018, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva 2017.
Maxim has curated group exhibitions: Village Unhu group exhibitions and art fairs 2019 to date; Kuvhunura, Kupinda ne mwenje mudziva, Fondation Blachere, Bonniuex 2024.
Georgina Maxim (born 1980) is a Zimbabwean artist and curator who lives and works in Harare and Mutare, Zimbabwe and studied at University of Bayreuth, Germany (MA/AVVA) and Chinhoyi University in Zimbabwe. She develops here artistic practice around textiles, using techniques as varied as sewing, weaving, embroidery and crochet to (re)bring used clothes to life. Georgina Maxim is also the co-founder and co-director of Village Unhu in Milton Park, Harare and in Mutare, Zimbabwe; an arts space offering residency programs, exhibitions, workshops and studio spaces.
Her recent and upcoming exhibitions include: Biennale Arte 2026 In minor Keys by the late Koyo Kouoh: solo exhibitions: Button Gallery Nordenhake, Mexico City 2025, Winter Wonders Goodman Gallery London 2024: group exhibitions: Kaaraalines Vers, Muset for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, 2025: Femmes curated by Pharrel Williams, Perrotin Gallery, Paris, 2024, group exhibitions and art fairs with 31 Project, Paris 2020-25; Memoria: récits d’une autre histoire, National Museum of Yaoundé, Yaounde, 2023 and Fondation H, Antananarivo 2024, O Quilombismso, O Quilombismo: Of Resisting and Insisting. Of Flight as Fight. Of Other Democratic Egalitarian Political Philosophies Quilombism, 2023; Unravel,The power and politics of textiles in art, Barbican Centre, London and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, 2024: A Different Now is Close Enough to Enhale, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town and Johannesburg, 2022; Eternally Yours, Somerset House, London, 2022; 58th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice, 2019. Residencies include, Fondation H, Antananarivo, 2023, Bag Factory, Johnnesburg, 2019, Goethe Institut, Salvdor de Bahia 2018, Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva 2017.
Maxim has curated group exhibitions: Village Unhu group exhibitions and art fairs 2019 to date; Kuvhunura, Kupinda ne mwenje mudziva, Fondation Blachere, Bonniuex 2024.