Helena Uambembe

2023: ASAI Print Access Workshop, Wits School of Arts, Johannesburg.
2018: B Tech in Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane.
2016: National Diploma in Fine and Applied Arts, Tshwane University of Technology, Tshwane.

2024: On the Site of the Okavango, Anton Janzewski, Berlin, Germany
2023: Blooming in Stasis: 25.8230° S, 23.5312° E, Museum für Moderne
Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2023: In Memory We Love”, Jahmek Contemporary Art, Luanda, Angola
2021: Pim Pam Pum, NWU Gallery, North West University, Potchefstroom.
2021: How to make Mud Cake. Cubicle Series. Everard Read Gallery, Cape Town.
2020: Home and the Other. FNB Art Joburg. Online.
2018: KutalaChopeto [Seeking Comfort], World Refugee Day exhibition. Point of Order, Johannesburg.

2025: Ars Viva Art Prize 2024, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany; Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

2025: Planetary Presents, Moritzburg Museum, Halle, Germany.

2024: Vulnerable, KOW, Berlin, Germany

2024: Unseen Guest, Public Program for British Pavilion (with INIVA), online.

2024: Des Seins À Dessein, Edition 5, Lausanne, Switzerland.

2024: Look!, Anton Janzewski, Berlin, Germany

2024: Notes On The Wake. Rhapsody and Lamentations in Three Acts, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy

2024: Inner Mining - Outer Mining: A global Constellation, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany

2023: Soil Conversations, Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany

2023: Deep Blue, Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Porto Museum - Palace Of the

2023: Visconde of Balsemão, Porto, Portugal

2023: What We Know, INCCA, Johannesburg, South Africa

2022: Toxicity, La Biennale de Lubumbashi VII, Democratic Republic of the

Congo

2022: Feminism ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg, South Africa

2022: Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono, 13th Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography, Bamako, Mali

2021: Territories Between Us. Iziko Museum, Cape Town.

2021: Home for the Holidays. Danger Gevaar Ingozi Studio, Johannesburg

2021: Feminism Ya Mang, Yethy, Yanu. Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg

2021: Shape of Blackness. Oakstop Project Space, California.

2020: The African Art Fair. Movart Gallery, Online.

2020: Pink. Everard Read, Johannesburg.

2020: Through Our Eyes Narrative of Angolan Narratives. Abuja Art Week, Online.

2020: The Politics is Now. Blessing Ngobeni Art Prize. Aspire Art, Johannesburg.

2020: FNB Art Joburg, Luamba Muinga, Johannesburg. 

2020:  Qual Futuro, Online exhibition.

2020:  The Borders of Memory, Guns & Rain, Johannesburg.

2020:  Covert Bioscope, Bag Factory Artist Studios. Online Exhibition.

2019:  Texidermia do Futuro. Museu National de Historia Natural, Luanda, Angola.

2019:  Multiplies, Johannesburg.

2019:  Resistance is Us. ABSA Art Gallery, Johannesburg.

2019:  Summer Salon, Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg.

2019:  The Warmth of Other Suns, The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg.

2019:  Print Like a Girl, Turbine Art Fair, Gallery 2, Johannesburg.

2019:  Print Like a Girl, Art Room Gallery, Johannesburg.

2019:  Compulsive exhibition, Johanne van Heerden Gallery, Pretoria, South Africa.

2019:  Mark-making, Trent Gallery, Pretoria.

2019:  I don’t know what you are talking about, but I know what you mean, PASTOgalleria, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019:  Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Offset Culture Art, Cape Town, South Africa.

2019:  Spaces in Between, Tmrw Gallery, Johannesburg.

2018:  TUT Studio exhibition 2018, TUT Arts Campus, Pretoria.

2018:  Till Art Do Us Apart, TUT Art Festival, Pretoria.

2018:  Print Art – Now and Then, Trent Gallery, Pretoria.

2017:  Silences in Between, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town.

2017:  Nirox Sculpture Winter Fair, Krugersdorp, South Africa.

2017:  The Centre of the less good idea season 1, Arts on Main, Johannesburg.

2017:  South-South. Let us begin again. Goodman Gallery Cape Town.

2019: Caminho do Mato, Caminho do Flores, Flores de Amor Extended, Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg.
2019: ​Caminho do Mato, Caminho do Flores, Flores de Amor, FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg.
2019: ​Therapy for the Black Man (In Honour of...), Underline Projects, Johannesburg.
2019: ​Load I shall Carry (Prayer to Mother Njinga), The Melrose Gallery, Johannesburg.
2018: Tchiganchi, The Point of Order, Johannesburg.

2019: The Violence of an Anxious Mind - Panel Discussion, Bag Factory Artist
Studios, Johannesburg.
2019: David Koloane Panel Discussion, Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg.
2019: AFEMS – African Feminism Conference, Performing Normalcy: A focus on the
Women of the 32 Battalion, Johannesburg.
2018: BLT People’s Table, Johannesburg.
2016: The History we are told not to Speak (The history of the Pomfret community), Unisa School of Arts Conference, Pretoria.
2016: Black Portraiture III. The Untold Story of the Pomfret Community, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

2024 - 25: ars viva Prize
2023: DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Fellow, Berlin
2022: Baloise Art Prize, Art Basel
2021: F*cken Globo, Hotel Globo, Luanda, Angola
2019: David Koloane Award, Bag Factory Artist Studios, Johannesburg

Nkgopolent Moloi, Are we not makers of history? I reflecting on spatial and temporal memory, BubblegumClub, 2021.

Keely Shinners, Listening to images of 32 Battalion, ASAI, 2021.

Fadzai Muchemwa, A History of Disruption: Helena Uambembe’s ‘Commander Nel’s Archive,’ ArtThrob, 2021.

Nkgopoleng Moloi, Artist Helena Uambembe confronts a painful past and compresses time, BubblegumClub, 2021.

Helena Uambembe, This is not the Angola that we dreamed of, South-South, 2020.