Born - 1980. Harare, Zimbabwe.

Based between - Bayreuth, Germany and Harare, Zimbabwe.

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Georgina 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. 

 

After studying 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.

 

Georgina Maxim has at the same time developed her artistic work by turning to textiles and using the techniques of embroidery, sewing and weaving to destructure, cut out and recompose second-hand clothes. She thus creates singular works that escape definition: the artist herself describes her work as an act of memory, a transcription of the moment, the lived moments and stories evoked by these used textiles. 

In 2018, Georgina Maxim has been nominated for the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan).

Her work has been exhibited in Zimbabwe (Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally (Mojo Gallery in Dubai, Sulger Buell Gallery in London, Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).

 

In 2019, Georgina Maxim is taking a master's degree at the University of Bayreuth in order to deepen her curatorial practice and is undertaking a creative residency of several months at the Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia. The same year, she also presented an installation for the Zimbabwean pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. In 2020, she exhibits at the Bargoin Museum (Clermont-Ferrand) and presents her work at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine in 2021.

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Photo and text: Courtesy of 31 Project Gallery