Born 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe
Maxim is known for both working as artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. Maxim together co-founded Village Unhu in 2012, an artist collective space in Harare that has been providing studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for artists – young and professional.
After studying at the University of Chinhoyi, she taught visual arts for several years at the Prince Edward School while managing the Delta Gallery, a historical gallery for contemporary art in Harare.
Georgina Maxim has at the same time developed her artistic work by turning to textiles and using the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to destructure, cut out and recompose second-hand clothes. She thus creates singular works that escape definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the moment, the lived moments and stories evoked by these used textiles.
In 2018, Georgina Maxim has been nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan).
Her work has been exhibited in Zimbabwe (Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally (Mojo Gallery in Dubai, Sulger Buell Gallery in London, Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).
In 2019, Georgina Maxim is taking a master's degree at the University of Bayreuth in order to deepen her curatorial practice and is undertaking a creative residency of several months at the Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia. The same year, she also presented an installation for the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020, she exhibits at the Bargoin Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) and presents her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021.
GEORGINA MAXIM
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
2021
Exposition individuelle, 31 PROJECT - Art Paris art fair – France
Memoria: Accounts of another History, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Bordeaux – France
2020
Love Etc. Festival International des Textiles Extraordinaires, Musée Bargoin, Clermont-Ferrand – France
SMALL, 31 PROJECT, Paris - France
Galeristes, 31 PROJECT, Paris - France
2019
Your parents are soo old – Solo show, 31 project, AKAA Art Fair, Paris – France
Concert for Birds – Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia – Brazil
58ème Biennale de Venise , pavillon du Zimbabwe, Venise – Italy
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2018
Summer Exhibition – Sulger-Buel Gallery, London – United Kingdom
AKAA art fair, Sulger-Buel Gallery, Paris – France
1.54 London Art Fair, London – United Kingdom
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair Johannesburg – South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2017
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair Johannesburg – South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2016
Artists Book Exhibition, Mojo Gallery, Dubai – United Arab Emirates
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair Johannesburg – South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2015
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair Johannesburg – South Africa
2008 - 2019
Group Exhibitions – Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe (2012 - 2019)
Group Exhibitions – Gallery Delta Harare – Zimbabwe (2008 - 2019)
Group Exhibitions – National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Harare – Zimbabwe (2009 - 2019)
CURATING - Selection
2019
We move forward by looking back, exposition collective, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Sanity is expensive, but madness is for free, exposition collective, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2017
Percy Manyonga, Eye Report, solo show, nommée pour le National Arts Merit Award, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2013 – 2019
Art Director at Village Unhu - 6 exhibitions per year
RESIDENCIES
2020
Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg – South Africa
2019
Vila Sul, Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia – Brazil
2017
Embassy of Foreign Artists, ProHelvetia, Geneva – Suisse
AWARDS
2018
Henrike Grohs Art Award, nominée, Goethe Institute, Abidjan – Ivory Coast
EDUCATION
2019
Masters AVVA, African Verbal and Visual Arts, Universität Bayreuth and Iwalewahaus
2002
Creative Art and Design, Diploma in Education, University of Chinhoyi
WITH 31 PROJECT
EXHIBITIONS
2021
On fait des dessins dans la terre, group show
2020
SMALL, group show
2019
Your parents are soo old, group show
ARTFAIRS
2020
Galeristes, Paris
2019
AKAA, Paris, solo show