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This August, ICI will organize the Curatorial Intensive in Kampala, Uganda, in collaboration with the Njabala Foundation, which promotes and facilitates visibility for women artists.
The Curatorial Intensive in Kampala will draw from the vibrant artistic and intellectual production in East Africa, and focus on curatorial practices that promote the work of women, create support structures for artists adapted to their local contexts, and foster innovative thinking around what constitutes curatorial space beyond the conventional white cube, gallery, or museum.
The Curatorial Intensive, an eight-day professional development program, offers emerging curators the opportunity to discuss, among colleagues, the concepts, logistics, and challenges of organizing exhibitions, public programs, and other curatorial models. It is designed to immerse participants in a rigorous schedule of seminars, presentations, site visits, and one-on-one meetings that support the process of developing an idea for a project into a full proposal. The Curatorial Intensive is targeted toward self-motivated individuals at an early stage in their career, working independently or within institutions. It is a unique opportunity to forge a close network of peers and embark on future collaborations. This program is the seventh Curatorial Intensive in Africa since 2013, following past iterations in Johannesburg, Addis Ababa, Marrakesh, Dakar, Accra, and Cape Town.
Seminars, site visits, individual meetings, and roundtable discussions will be led by a group of professionals that includes Keyna Eleison (Artistic Director, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro), Daudi Karungi (Founder, Afriart Gallery, and Director, Kampala Art Biennale, Kampala), Martha Kazungu (Assistant Curator, MARKK Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg, and Founder and Curator, Njabala Foundation, Kampala), Serubiri Moses (thinker, curator, and teacher, New York), Dr. Lilian Mary Nabulime (Sculptor and lecturer, Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Art (MTSIFA), Makerere University, Kampala), Marie-Hélène Pereira (Curator and Director of Programs, RAW Material Company, Dakar), and Renaud Proch (Executive and Artistic Director, ICI), among others. A full list of faculty will be available in the coming weeks; check this page for updates.
About the Njabala Foundation
Njabala is a multi-faceted campaign sourcing inspiration from a popular Ugandan myth of Njabala to facilitate conversations on womanhood. The Foundation’s responsibility is to curate periodic exhibitions, as well as organize a public program of activities aimed at creating safe spaces for female artists to thrive. To increase the visibility of the work of women artists, Njabala Foundation in various ways campaigns against gender inequality in the art world by organizing art exhibitions and events exclusively dedicated to highlighting the work of women artists.