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Nantume Violet

Nantume Violet is the initiator of the collective and independent art space UNDER GROUND in Kampala, Uganda. She has over a decade’s experience and expertise in cultural productions, and curating across Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa. She was a speaker at the second Okwui Ewenzor Distinguished Lecture in Germany. She writes for Artforum, New York City and Contemporary And Berlin margazines. Nantume attended Àsìkò Art School and has a BA from Makerere University, and an M.F.A. from HfBK Hamburg. She is pursuing her PhD at Ruhr University Bochum and lives between Uganda and Germany.

She has co-curated the exhibition Silent Invasion: The Art of Material Hacking at Amasaka Gallery in Uganda, We Will now Go to Kpaaza: The work and legacy of modernist Uche Okeke, at the Iwalewahaus Bayreuth, That Those Beings Be Not Being at the Alpha nova & Galerie Futura in Berlin. She curated Muntu Maxim, an experimental web residency with Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart. Exhibitions: Close, at the Johannesburg Art Gallery, Indulgence at Goethe-Institute Nairobi, Being Her(e) in Luanda, Zikunta: Gale of Human, Heart of Darkness; Cast a Light on Prejudice; a photography exhibition, and Together We Can, all in Kampala. She chaired the curatorial committee of the KLA’Art Festival in 2014.