Born 1980 in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Georgina Maxim is known for both working as an artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. In 2012, she co-founded Village Unhu, an artist-run space in Harare that provides studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for young and professional artists.
After completing her studies 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.
At the same time, Georgina Maxim has developed her artistic practice by turning to textiles and using the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to deconstruct, cut out and recompose second-hand clothes. Through her practice, Georgina Maxim creates unique pieces that escape any definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the moment, of the experiences and stories evoked by these used clothes.
In 2018, Georgina Maxim has been nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan). Her work has been exhibited in Zimbabwe (Delta Gallery, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally (Mojo Gallery in Dubai, 31 PROJECT in Paris and Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).
In 2019, Georgina Maxim presented an installation for the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In the same year, she took a master’s degree at the University of Bayreuth to deepen her curatorial practice. She also undertook a creative residency at the Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia.
In 2020, she exhibits at the Bargoin Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) and presents her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA in 2021, during the exhibition Memory: tales of another story.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
2022
Art Paris Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Paris - France
2021
Threads, Duende Art Projects, Antwerp - Belgium
This place will become a memory, 31 PROJECT, Art Paris Art Fair – France
Memoria: Accounts of another History, FRAC MÉCA, Bordeaux – France
On fait des dessins dans la terre, 31 PROJECT – France
Self-Continuity, AFIKARIS gallery, Paris – France
Artissima, 31 PROJECT, Turin – Italy
1:54, 31 PROJECT, London – United Kingdom
2020
Love Etc. International Festival of Extraordinary Textiles, Bargoin Museum, Clermont-Ferrand – France
SMALL, 31 PROJECT, Paris – France
Galeristes, 31 PROJECT, Paris – France
2019
58th Venice Biennale, Zimbabwe Pavillion, Venice – Italy
Your parents are so old – Solo show, 31 PROJECT, AKAA Art Fair,
Paris – France
Concert for Birds – Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia – Brasil
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, Londres London – United Kingdom
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair – South Africa
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2017
FNB Johannesburg Art Fair – 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)
CURATOR | Selection
2021
Coin flip serie, a series of solo shows for emerging artists, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2019
We move forward by looking back, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Sanity is expensive, but madness is for free, Village Unhu,
Harare – Zimbabwe
2017
Percy Manyonga, Eye Report, nommée pour le National Arts Merit Award, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
2013 – 2019
Artistic Director at Village Unhu – Six exhibitions per year
RESIDENCIES
2020
Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg – South Africa
2019
Vila Sul, Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia – Brasil
2017
Embassy of Foreign Artists, ProHelvetia, Geneva - Switzerland
AWARDS
2018
Henrike Grohs Art Award, nominée, Goethe Institute, Abidjan – Ivory Coast
EDUCATION
2019
Masters AVVA, African Visual and Verbal Art, Universität Bayreuth and Iwalewahaus
2002
Creative Art and Design, Diploma in Education, University of Chinhoyi
WITH 31 PROJECT
EXHIBITIONS
2021
This place will become a memory
On fait des dessins dans la terre, group show
2020
SMALL, group show
2019
Your parents are soo old, group show
ARTFAIRS
2022
Art Paris Art Fair, 31 PROJECT, Paris – France
2021
Artissima, 31 PROJECT, Turin – Italy
1:54 London, 31 PROJECT, Paris – France
2020
Galeristes, Paris
2019
AKAA, Paris, solo show
PUBLICATION
2021
This place will become a memory