Georgina Maxim

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. Maxim is also the co-founder and co-director of Village Unhu, an arts space offering residency programs, exhibitions, workshops, and studio spaces in Milton Park, Harare, and Mutare, Zimbabwe. Her recent exhibitions include the 61st Venice Biennale, In minor Keys curated by the late Koyo Kouoh (2026); solo exhibitions at Button Gallery Nordenhake (Mexico City, 2025), and Winter Wonders Goodman Gallery (London, 2024). Group exhibitions include: 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, 2024) and Stedelijk Museum (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 (Johannesburg 2019), Goethe Institut (Salvador de Bahia 2018), Embassy of Foreign Artists (Geneva 2017). Maxim has curated group exhibitions at Village Unhu and art fairs including Kuvhunura/Kupinda ne mwenje mudziva, Fondation Blachere, Bonniuex 2024.