Biography
Alexandra Mawimbi — Visual Artist
Alexandra Mawimbi is a visual artist whose practice spans two-dimensional work, sculpture, video, performance, sound, and installation. Her work explores themes of identity, memory, and the body, drawing on personal and collective histories.
She has exhibited and performed internationally, with works presented in Berlin, Brussels, Nairobi, Bayreuth, and New York. Her approach is interdisciplinary, moving fluidly between media to examine the intersections of culture, queerness, and representation.
Selected Milestones
- October 28, 2016 Winner of the Smithsonian First Annual African Art Award.
- 2015 Live documentation of Untitled derivative of Mshoga Mpya, or the New Homosexual filmed as part of the African Odysseys exhibition, curated by Marie-Ann Yemsi, in Brussels.
- 2014 Live documentation of Untitled on sexual abuse presented at the East Africa Performing Arts Festival, Goethe Institute Nairobi, curated by Dance.
- 2013 Live documentation of Mourning a Living Man filmed at Savvy Contemporary, Berlin.
- 2012 Live documentation of Untitled (January 2012) performed at Roots Contemporary, Brussels.
- — Artist talk as part of the workshop The Discovery of Queerness. Intricate Trails of a Travelling Concept at Freie Universität Berlin, Department of History and Cultural Studies.
- — Exhibited drawings of a transgender man living in Canada but originally from Kenya, as part of the exhibition Future Africa Visions in Time at Bayreuth University, Germany.