Luamba
Muinga

Awardee

Country

Angola

Luamba Muinga re-examines history through his artistic research.

Themes
Reexamining history
Disciplines
Artistic Research
Criticism
Design
Literature
Media / Journalism
Other(s)
Awards
SEED Award 2021

Profile

Luamba Muinga works in curation, cultural research, and writing. His practice has been centred on reexamining history and the permanence of memory, on how we appropriate the past, extracting its context, to locate it in the present. He coordinates LabCC - Laboratório de Crítica e Curadoria, an art platform that dynamizes multidisciplinary projects within cultural structures as a facilitator of the practice of young curators and art educators in Luanda. And co-organiser of the curatorial network Continued Conversations… that brings together curators from different continents and contexts. Muinga won the Angolan National Press Prize for Literature in 2022 and co-author of the publication "Are we not makers of history?" (Bag Factory, Joburg, 2020).