GEORGINA MAXIM
Georgina Maxim
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. Maxim worked at Gallery Delta, her first experience during and after her studies at Chinhoyi University of Technology and is a qualified art teacher having taught at Prince Edward School for over 7 years. As an artist, Maxim’s work combines weaving, stitch work and the utilisation of found textiles creating objects that evade definition. Maxim describes her work as ‘the memory of’ the owners of these clothes, evoking the past and all these stories.
Maxim was a nominee of the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan) 2018, She has exhibited extensively with works being collected regionally (Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally (Mojo Gallery in Dubai, Sulger Buell Gallery in London, Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).
Recently Maxim studied African Verbal and Visual Arts – Languages, Curation and Arts (Masters) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and she displays a body of work in the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 58th Biennale Di Venezia 2019.
GROUP SHOWS
2019
Concert for Birds – Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia - Brazil
58th Venice Biennale , zimbabwean pavilion, Venice – Italy
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town – South Africa
2018
Summer Exhibition – Sulger-Buel Gallery, London – UK
AKAA art fair, Sulger-Buel Gallery, Paris - France
1.54 London Art Fair, Londres - UK
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 – Emirate
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)
CURATED EXHIBITION - Selection
2019
We move forward by looking back, group show, Village Unhu, Harare – Zimbabwe
Sanity is expensive, but madness is for free, group show, Village Unhu, Harare - Zimbabwe
2017
Percy Manyonga, Eye Report, solo show, nomminee for the National Arts Merit Award, Village Unhu, Harare - Zimbabwe
2013 – 2019
Artistic director at Village Unhu – 6 exhibitions per year
RESIDENCIES
2019
Vila Sul, Goethe Institute, Salvador de Bahia - Brasil
2017
Embassy of Foreign Artists, ProHelvetia , Geneva - Switzerland
AWARDS
2018
Henrike Grohs Art Award , nominee, Goethe Institute - Abidjan, Ivory coast
EDUCATION
2019
Masters AVVA, African Vernal and Visual Arts, Universität Bayreuth and Iwalewahaus
2002
Creative Art and Design, Diploma in Education, Chinhoyi university