Gerald Odil Ronnie is a 31-year-old queer arts producer, curator, and artist with 6 years of experience working in the cultural and creative sector in Kampala, Uganda. Odil is a founding member of ANTI-MASS; a queer collective based in Kampala that hosts and curates a series of transgressive art & music happenings since 2018.
Odil was Community Manager at Design Hub Kampala, a design and creative maker space; producing events around creative collaborations, and exhibitions from 2017 to 2019. They then became Cultural Coordinator for Alliance Française de Kampala between 2019 and 2020. In this role, Odil coordinated cultural programming for the institution such as music concerts, festivals, all public-facing programs, and cultural exchange programs with sister institutes.
In 2021, they were part of the curatorial and coordination team in the fourth edition of the KLAART public arts festival produced by 32° East|Ugandan Arts Trust as a Curator Fellow, where they gave curatorial and technical support to the artists and coordinator of the festival. Odil continued to explore curation as a curator and producer for the 2022 edition of Transdisciplinary Regenerative Encounter Residency Uganda (TRERU); initiated by the Dutch-Belgian collective TAAT, focusing on regenerative, creative development and artistic commoning.
Odil is now Communications Manager for Fashion Africa Now, an international pan Africanist, fashion magazine while pursuing their own artistic work in land art. Odil’s work centres queer voices exploring new potentials of artistic expressions, creating propellant spaces in an increasingly regressive social climate.
