Monday, 16 Jun 2025
Year: 2009
Night Watch, Acrylic on canvas, Wyne

Viral Value: A chat with the curator of the Dutch Masters Today exhibition

Henry Mzili Mujunga chats with the curator of the Dutch Masters Today exhibition at the Uganda Museum and ponders how to start an “art epidemic”. The Dutch masters are here. Who’s excited? Is it Rembrandt or Van Gogh? Are Corneille Van

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Milking your dogs. Monoprint. Henry Mzili Mujunga. 2009

Henry Mzili Mujunga: A Work of Fiction

Back in the day, many brave terrorists from south of the great lake tried to cross this devil’s corridor in pursuit of Evil-Fat- Daddy, but instead lost all their memory and all their programs in its red waters. Evil-Fat-Daddy escaped

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L-R, HE Pierre Nkurunziza, HE Y. K. Museveni and Roland Birutsya

L-R, HE Pierre Nkurunziza, HE Y. K. Museveni and Roland Birutsya

Critic’s Pick: Rolands (Birutsya) Tibirusya

Henry Mzili Mujunga talks about Rolands (Birutsya) Tibirusya, a “live” artist whose ingenuity has brought philanthropic art to a refreshing new level in Uganda. “Instead of complaining about it, he has frankly embraced the wave of celebrity that has engulfed

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Pamala's Living area with paintings by Taga, Mugalu.

Pamela Kertland Wright: Collector, writer and owner of Emin Pasha hotel

A Q&A with Pamela Kertland Wright, collector, writer and owner of Emin Pasha hotel as well as several other safari lodges in Uganda. “I think there is incredible talent here in Uganda. But sometimes it needs to be taken out

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Dr. Lillian Nabulime.

Dr. Lillian Nabulime.

Learning A New Language: Lillian Nabulime

George Kyeyune reflects on how the medium affects the message in contemporary Ugandan art. “Nabulime makes casts of male and female genitals in transparent soap into which she embeds dark seeds to look like infections. We all know that soap

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Front cover of Issue 004

Issue No 004 Dec ´09

The last quarter of the year was an exciting one for the Ugandan art world. It saw the arrival of the Dutch Masters Today exhibition at the Uganda Museum, which was unique not just because it enabled three prominent Ugandan artists—our own Daudi Karungi and Henry Mzili Mujunga among them—to exhibit alongside Dutch masters, but because our national museum actually hosted a modern art exhibition. Mzili talks to its curator, Ugandan expatriate David Oduki, and gets his ideas on one of our central preoccupations—how to get Africans to buy African art. In the performing arts arena, Tebandeke Samuel Lutaaya reflects on the history and development of modern dance in Uganda. We go beyond the purview of fine art to look at the aesthetics of branding with Michiel van Oosterhout’s piece comparing the marketing tactics of Uganda’s ever-growing stable of telecom companies. Finally, Dutch photographer Andrea Stultiens weighs in from the Netherlands in Notes from Abroad, we provide a primer for pricing artwork—and more.

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Front cover of Issue 003

Issue No 003 Jul ´09

In this issue, we offer several contrasting perspectives on this controversial show of lecturers’ work. Elsewhere, correspondent Henry Mzili Mujunga returns with a reflection on the contentious issue of nudity in the arts and local urban culture. Mzili also profiles successful Ugandan photographer Eric Rwakoma, one of those rare and envied members of our artist community who manages to make his living doing what he does best. On the international scene, Leah Sandals provides us with a primer on how to break into the exciting and lucrative Canadian art scene. Read on for more features on the latest trends and techniques in the Ugandan art world.

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