Bayimba Cultural Foundation and The international Bayimba festival recently occupied their newly acquired home on Lunkulu Island in Mukono district. The island which was acquired by Bayimba in November 2017 sits on 100 acres of land which is all a
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Year: 2019
Overlooking Lake Victoria, Maisha Garden is designed as a series of open classrooms in nature to foster discussion, learning and contemplation. Founded by filmmaker Mira Nair, Maisha Garden is a multidisciplinary art space located on Buziga Hill in Kampala. Designed by award-winning architect-for-change Raul
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Ndere Centre is the Home of Cultures, the center is built on 9 acres of well-maintained green, beautifully flowered walk ways and shaded by very mature fruit and other African trees. The rare architecture is a seamless combination of artistic
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The Ugandan German Cultural Society was founded in 1989, with the major aim of strengthening and promoting the growth of bilateral co-operations between the people of Uganda and Germany and to promote the local art scene. Since 2006, the organization
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Afriart Gallery is a focal point of Kampala’s artistic community and provides a wonderful space to experience the exquisite art of Uganda. The gallery was founded in 2002 and has presented contemporary art for the past 15 years. Over this time,
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“Afriart Gallery is a focal point of Kampala’s artistic community and provides a wonderful space to showcase the exquisite art of Uganda. The gallery shows the best of African fine art. We serve individual and corporate clients, from experienced collectors to
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Makerere Art Gallery was founded in 1969 as exhibition space for the growing collection of art works by faculty and students of the renowned Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts. This collection, gathered from the early days of
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AKA Gallery former Tulifanya Gallery was established in 1995. The principle of the Gallery is to promote contemporary, modern African art through exhibitions and portfolio management of Ugandan and other African artists. Over the years the gallery has grown with an
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The main objective of this gallery is to enable national and international visitors to revive Uganda’s cultural heritage and to become enamored with multi-centralism, so as to stimulate potential in the artists living in Uganda, to encourage the exchange of
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The Nommo Gallery, founded and established in 1964 by the 1959 Act of Parliament, is Uganda’s National Art Gallery and a component of the Uganda National Cultural Centre (UNCC). The Nommo Gallery features exhibitions of works of art by both
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There has been a raging discussion on the curatorial practice for the Kampala Art Biennale (KAB18) undertaken by internationally renowned curator, Simon Njami, on social media and international art platforms. The conversation emerged in the aftermath of the biennale with online art publications publishing a series of articles by international writers. Art Journalist Dominic Muwanguzi gives his opinion on the issue from a local perspective.
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