Maimuna Adam
Maimuna Adam Maimuna Adam

Maimuna Adam

b. 1984, Maputo, Mozambique.

Maimuna Adam employs a diverse set of techniques to bring together the themes of memory, history, travel and migration. Her works weave fictional and non-fictional narratives related to the experiences of family and friends.

Education

2008: Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, University of Pretoria.

Solo Exhibitions (Mozambique)

2014:​ ¡Toma!, Instituto Cultural Moçambique-Alemanha (ICMA-Goethe Zentrum), Maputo.
2013​: Bon Voyage, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo

Solo Exhibitions (International)

2015: Family, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth.

Group Exhibitions (Mozambique)

2019: Colecção Crescente, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo
2018: (Re)Lembrar – Mystery of Foreign Affairs, IC-CCP, Fortaleza de Maputo
2015​: Colecção Crescente, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo.
2014​: Processos, Galeria “Sala de Espera”, Associação Kulungwana, Maputo.
2013: Crescent Collection, Kulungwana, Maputo.
2013: Living in this world, Media-teca BCI – Espaço Joaquim Chissano, Maputo.
2012: Between there and here, Bienal MUVART’12, ICMA-Goethe Zentrum, Maputo
2012: Crescent Collection, Kulungwana, Maputo.
2011: Dockanema 6, Video Art/Fundação PLMJ session, Maputo.
2011: Bienal TDM 2011, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2011: Exhibition of Mozambican Art, French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Maputo.
2010: MUVART’10 Contemporary Art Bienale, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2010: Women and Borders, French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Maputo.
2010: Love/Hate soccer, French-Mozambican Cultural Centre, Maputo.
2010: Temporary Occupations – Paper/Role, Minerva Central Bookshop, Maputo.
2009: TDM Bienal, National Art Museum, Maputo.
2009: Karingana wa Karingana, Camões Institute, Maputo.
2004: Art in the Feminine, National Art Museum, Maputo.

Group Exhibitions (International)

2015: Rastros, Museu Capixaba do Negro (MUCANE), Vitória, Espírito Santo.
2015: As Margens dos Mares, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo.
2015: Odyssées Africaines, BRASS Centre Culturel de Forest, Brussels.
2013: !Kauru: Africa Imagined, Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria.
2013: hetero q.b., Chiado National Contemporary Art Museum, Lisbon.
2013: Temporary Occupations – Documents, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
2012: 100 Works, 10 Years: A Selection from the PLMJ Foundation Collection, Arpad Szenes – Vieira da Silva Foundation, Lisbon.
2012: _tribune video, École Superieure d’Art de La Réunion, Le Port, Réunion.
2012: Africa meets Europe, Galeri Matesh, Breda.
2012: César Schofield Cardoso, Maimuna Adam, René Tavares, Graça Brandão Gallery, Lisbon.
2012: VI São Tomé & Príncipe Art and Culture Bienal, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon
2011: VI Art and Culture Bienal, CACAU, São Tomé.

Awards

2012: PLMJ Foundation CPLP Video Art Prize, Lisbon
2009: Honorable mention for video, “The Curtain”, TDM Bienal, National Art Museum, Maputo.

Other

2017: 180 Artists to the South Residency, Hangar, Lisbon
2015: Family, 2 month residency at Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth
2014: Alexander Rave-Stiftung/IFA scholarship to attend a curatorial internship at Iwalewahaus, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Tutoring

2021 - 2020: Gineceu II group exhibition. Producer Maria Elisa Chim. Associação Kulungwana, Maputo
2019: UPCycles 2019. Residency / Co-Tutor (junior) with Ângela Ferreira (MZ/RSA/PT). Producer / Curator Diana Manhiça. Online and at Fortaleza Nossa Senhora da Conceição, Direcção da Cultura, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo.

Khumo Sebambo, Negotiating the in-between, (ASAI, 2019).

 

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