Martha Kazungu

Martha Kazungu is a Ugandan curator and art historian. She holds a master of arts in African Verbal and Visual Arts with a focus on curating and media in Africa from the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Several years of promoting the work of women artists led to her founding Njabala Foundation to render visibility for women artists. She is on the scientific advisory board for Art and Feminisms exhibition by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg. Kazungu also serves as external curator for the German Federal Cultural Foundation Turn2 Labs of 2022. She is currently finalizing her tenure as Assistant Curator at Museum am Rothenbaum (MARKK) with a co-curated an exhibition within the 8th Triennial of Photography in Hamburg. Kazungu’s writings have been featured in several publications in Africa, Europe, and USA. Most recently she contributed to Phaidon’s African Artists: From 1882 to Now. Kazungu has curated exhibitions in Europe and Africa most notably My Mother is Forgetting My Face (Norway), Life Classes: an exhibition of Ugandan art on paper (Germany), Embodiment of Reason (Uganda) and Here and Here (Ethiopia). Kazungu is an alumnus of Museum Labs,Independent Curators International (ICI) (South Africa), Àsìkò School (Ethiopia and Ghana), C& writers’ workshop (Kenya) and AtWork (Uganda). She was assistant curator for the 2016 Kampala Art Biennale curated by Elise Atangana in 2016 and the Feedback Art Africa and the 1980s curated by Smooth Ugochukwu at Iwalewahaus in 2018.