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Flight is Organizing Towards Flight
Exhibition Concluded in 2025
Flight is Organizing Towards Flight comes as a staggering reminder that in the fight for freedom, there is no there there. Freedom is only reached in the process of fighting for that same said freedom. Flight is Organizing Towards Flight is archival in its mode of operation. We …
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Errant Black Girlhoods
Exhibition Concluded in 2024
MOTORMOND presents Errant Black Girlhoods at Unseen Amsterdam Photography fair. For our first time at Unseen Amsterdam, we have commissioned a new series of photographs from the talented and now well established artist Nella Ngingo. Errant Black Girlhoods is a new series of …
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Into the Deep Loving Darkness
Exhibition Concluded in 2024
Into the deep Loving Darkness is patricia kaersenhout’s debut solo exhibition in Germany. For this exhibition I pulled at multiple threads through kaersenhout’s decades long artistic practice to create a total installation that mines the violences of the archive and redresses …
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A STATE OF GRACE?
Exhibition Concluded in 2024
A STATE OF GRACE? seeks to use the exhibition as a space for transformative ritual where it will locate itself in the past, the now and actively rejecting any projection into any future. It draws inspiration from witches, cults, occultism, voodoo, and other marginalized …
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Past A Surpassing Disaster
Exhibition Concluded in 2023
This exhibition will pause to look at the afterlives of three international mass protests. The 2015 Baltimore Uprising will be viewed through the work of renowned Baltimorean photographer @bydvnlln. Nigeria’s 2020 #ENDSARS protests will be visualized through the work of …
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Brave Beauties in Communion
Exhibition Concluded in 2023
Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation This exhibition brings together works by contemporary photographers Daniel Obasi, DeLovie Kwagala, Keren Lasme, Nella Ngingo, and Stephen Tayo in an effort to understand the image of black queer liberation through a …
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A Durable Swagger Scape
Exhibition Concluded in 2022
A Durable Swagger-scape is our collective imagination of who has Swagger. We have engaged with local artists, designers, stylists and photographers to explore how Swagger flows, from a feeling, to a sound, to a brand, to a design and then back to a feeling? How can we use Hip …
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Knowing Cotton Otherwise
Exhibition Concluded in 2023
Knowing Cotton Otherwise, was an interactive and dynamic exhibition activated by public programmes and educational interventions. All in the process of translating the various ways that we know cotton. Knowing Cotton Otherwise rested on pillars of collectivity and community …
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We Are Out Here, III: Breathing Room
Exhibition Concluded in 2022
We Are Out Here – is an ongoing series of public love declaration by Metro54 to street guerrilla poster culture that has produced (in the past decades) a particularly complex design aesthetics, typology, and vernacular across counter cultures. We first took to the streets in …
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You Can Still Be Happy and Get Wet In An Exploding Building
Exhibition Concluded in 2021
Motormond proposes a film exhibition against all weather conditions. This is an open challenge to meteorological conditions – we rise above rain and wind; we do not care about getting wet. Exploring the intertwinement of weather and emotion, we wish to talk about the material …
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Female: A Condition Devoid of Desire
Exhibition Concluded in 2021
Meet the ‘Female’ at Motormond. Being female consists of many aspects beyond what meets the eye and eventually becoming a female is an open and ongoing interpretation. Andrea Long Chu’s Females (2019) and Valerie Sonas’ SCUM Manifesto (1967) interpretations are the core theses …
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Becoming
Exhibition Concluded in 2021
BECOMING is an exhibition that explores how materials and identities become. Dough communicates with an intricate, intimate, and intelligent softness. Even when it hardens, it still keeps a soft underbelly. Clay on the other hand is like a cat. You can only work with it when it …
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Inside The Outside
Exhibition Concluded in 2021
Come see our debuts exposition in person. INSIDE THE OUTSIDE explores allyship through performance, photography and sculpture.
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Berlin Launch Musoke MAGAZINE
Magazine launch
18 April 2025Welcome to the Berlin Launch MOTORMOND Magazine Event! Join us for an exciting in-person event at Herrfurthpl. 8 where we will be unveiling the latest issue of MOTORMOND Magazine. Issue 1 I Errant Black Girlhoods Our first issue of MOTORMOND magazine is a photographic …
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MOTORMOND Magazine Launch
Event
21 February 2025Our first issue of Musoke magazine is a photographic conversation on Black Queer Errantry between photographers Siomara Van Bochove, Bernice Mulenga and Keren Lasme, collage artist Thato Toeba, Shasha movies’ Róisín Tapponi, video artist Aida Aslaksen, and social activist …
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FLIGHT IS ORGANIZING TOWARDS FLIGHT
Event
11 July 2024Poster design and protest have forged a historic alliance, epitomizing struggles for liberation and justice. The upcoming exhibition, 'Flight Organizing Towards Flight' embodies this synergy. Featuring iconic works and a series of public lectures. Poster design and protest have …
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I feel like my ancestors have left me 1000 voice notes to decipher
Lecture
25 April 2024Join us for a lecture/artist talk with artist Samboleap Tol .Tol’s artworks are heavily inspired by indigenist animist offering practices from Cambodia and the wider Southeast Asian region. Ancestral veneration practices became important to her as a way to directly connect with …
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Uses of the Erotic: Embodiment, Movement & Philosophies of Liberation
Reading
11 April 2024Drawing on the Audre Lorde's timeless essay ‘Uses of the Erotic’ Alexine Gabriela invites you to delve into the erotic with her. Western knowledge systems, tools of the imperialist and capitalist regime of the West, dissociate us from our bodies which means that we have lost …
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Cacao Ceremony by Zinzi de Brouwer
Cacao Ceremony
4 April 2024Cacao ceremonies are ritual-based moments where the cacao is served to come to a meditative and heart-opening state. Cacao ceremonies have a rich history in the Indigenous landscapes of Central and South America. Zinziworks with ceremonial cacao from various countries, and most …
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Storytelling as Narrative Reclamation by Basia Diagne and Felix de Jong
Discursive visual lecture
28 March 2024Storytelling as Narrative Reclamation of Healing Heritages: Disrupting Colonial Visuality of Healing Ontologies — is a critical diving into of archival ethnographic records of indigenous healing rituals and practices, in which Basia examines the role of the camera and …
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Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers
Tea Party
21 March 2024Boston Tea Party, Nutrition for Carers: Casting Spells into Oyster Shells is a manifestation of artist and researcher Eshwari Ramsali’s dream. “My dream is often of a big long table with members of my community seated facing one another as far as the eye can see. There is an …
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Pedagogies of the Sacred
Reading Group
7 March 2024Mainly creating work within a queer intersectional framework, Devika Chotoe uses performance art and language as entry points into understanding how hegemonic technologies of power shape bodies, times, spaces and their interrelationality. Striving to translate the unexpressed …
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Spirit of Dissent
Sonic Intervention
22 February 2024On Thursday the 22nd of February at 19.00h, other Indias and Rah Naqvi guides you through the sonic intervention Spirit of dissent. This sonic intervention is informed by a very long history of dissent, by elders and peers who have founded the basis for our resistance. These …
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Pariah by Plantation
Performance
15 February 2024Pariah is an installation by Ayomide Tejuoso, also known as Plantation, which centers on the hyper exploration of text across photography, video, installation, and performance. It explores the notion of text as \"I see phenomena; I am phenomena\", the tumbling of letters and …
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A STATE OF GRACE; of Witches, of Seance, of Voodoo, of Speaking in Tongues and Othered instances of Diasporic TRANS-portation
Exhibition Opening
25 January 2024The opening of the new exhibition A State of Grace? is celebrated with a procession from WG Kunst (Marius van Bouwdijk Bastiaansestraat 28) at 19.00h. The procession ends at 19.30h at Musoke's exhibition space (Kinkerstraat 96). Here Musoke Nalwoga, curator and founder of …
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City of God
Screening
19 January 2024In collaboration with Bar Bario, Musoke has put together a screening program with films that we feel attempt at the magical impossibility of collective healing. Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s 2003 City of God will be the third film we will be showing. SYNOPSIS: Two boys …
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This is not a Burial, This is a Resurrection
Screening
12 January 2024In collaboration with Bar Bario, Musoke has put together a screening program with films that we feel attempt at the magical impossibility of collective healing. Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese’s This is not a Burial, This is a Resurrection is the second film we will be showing. …
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Neptune Frost
Screening
5 January 2024Firstly we will screen Anisia Uzeyman and Saul Williams’ 2021 science fiction romantic musical film NEPTUNE FROST. SYNOPSIS: A group of escaped coltan miners forms an anti-colonialist computer hacker collective in the hilltops of Burundi. They soon attempt a takeover of the …
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Radio Tempo Não Pára
Radio Program
5 January 2024They will also dive into their individual practices as poet and curator and how these have come to contribute to the way Musoke is taking share.
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Pelumi Adejumo
Reading
24 December 2023Letters from the forsaken To Logan To Dandy To Precious To Chimira Where beauty lies within the ruins, how does one move as a guest in their own skin, in their own country? Language, faithful companion, can be both loyal and wayward. Examining the introverts; hidden wishes, …
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Past A Surpassing Disaster
Artist Talk
2 December 2023Baltimore native Devin Allen is a self-taught artist who gained national attention when his photograph of the Baltimore Uprising was published on the cover of Time magazine in May 2015, making him only the third amateur photographer to have his work featured in the publication. …
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Navigating Drexciya; A Sonic Transmission
Listening session
23 November 2023We extend an invitation for you to immerse yourself in an auditory expedition, as we transmit sonic waves calling for a departure from the enduring shadows that surround us. Through the seamless fusion of personal and historical threads, our aim is to sculpt a manifestation of …
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Brave Beauties in Communion
Artist Talks
30 September 2023A larger conversation will follow where fellow artists ARPITA AKHANDA and Amol Patil will be in discussion with Daniel and DeLovie around the consequences of fostering an artistic practice between the global north and the global south. Brave Beauties in Communion is generously …
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Artists Talks
Artist Talks
23 September 2023Program A 20-minute artist talk by Keren Lasme A 20-minute artist talk by Stephen Tayo A 30-minute panel discussion (Sumi Anjuman, Keren and Tayo) Lead Questions Panel: At a time when queer people and queer culture are presented as “western phenomena” of being, how important is …
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Shooting Session
Open Portrait Shooting Session
20 August 2023To keep the mood bubbling! @arantxaoosterwolde will play a gospel music inspired DJ set (*nothing to do with any God — just some gorgeous tunes for gorgeous people )
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TO INTERRUPT, TO PUNCTUATE
Screening
5 May 2023For us this is a great opportunity to experiment with a novel format, and for you, we hope, an interesting and entertaining evening. We will sit and engage with the various meanings and knowledges that will emerge from the interruptions. The interruptions will be sonic, …
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Circa 7991
Book Presentation
23 April 2023Circa 7991 Book Presentation —Not all speed is movement — Toni Cade Bambara The circa 7991 collective came together this January to make a book that investigates what it takes to build a queer and black institution. Contributors include Independent curator Musoke Nalwoga, poet …
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2023 Program Presentation
Year Program Presentation
10 April 2023Last year the lovely people of Sandberg Institute funded a research proposal that would give definition to the type of institution that we would become. Together with other independent platforms that are affiliated with Sandberg Institute and Rietveld Academy we will present our …
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Identity As Protest
Lecture
21 October 2021Frida Kahlo seems to have lived her entire life in defiance of normalcy. In this lecture, Musoke Nawolga wants to show how the younger generation of Amstelveen, Amsterdam and the The Netherlands at large by their own means is doing the same. Pushing boundaries in terms of what …
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Female Film Friday
Screening
27 August 2021This Friday (August 27), we are screening ‘This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection’ (2019) directed by Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese at 20.00. Synopsis: In a small village in Lesotho, the 80-year-old widow Mantoa hears about the death of her son during a mining incident. Mantoa …
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Brave Beauties in Communion: Imaging Black Queer Liberation
Exhibition text
24 August 2023This exhibition brings together works by contemporary photographers Daniel Obasi, DeLovie Kwagala, Keren Lasme, Nella Ngingo, and Stephen Tayo in an effort to understand the image of black queer liberation througha self directed and self sustained lens. Nella Ngingo's series is …
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Imagining A Queer and Black Institution
Publication: muholi art institute x a4 foundation cape town
1 February 2023Revolutions somehow always seem to start at living room tables. On our first day in South Africa, we sat at a wooden round one, facing noon, water, land, a buzzing Cape Town skyline under construction and this question: “Look around you, this is black and queer at its finest. …
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Into The Deep Loving Darkness
Exhibition booklet
22 June 2024In kaersenhout’s practice, nothing hovers at the edge of meaning, there is a directness that is very interested in your transformation. Into The Deep Loving Darkness re-arranges kaersenhout’s practice into a performative invitation to heal, – leaving no stone unturned. …
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MOTORMOND Magazine
Magazine
9 September 2024Issue 1 Errant Black Girlhoods Our first issue of MOTORMOND magazine is a photographic conversation on Black Queer Errantry between photographers Siomara Van Bochove, Bernice Mulenga and Keren Lasme, collage artist Thato Toeba, Shasha movies’ Róisín Tapponi, video artist Aida …
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(Re)membering the riots in Afrikaanderwijk in 1972 or guest, host, ghos-ti
Eflux criticism
24 January 2025In August 1972, a Turkish landlord evicted a Dutch woman living in the Afrikaanderwijk neighborhood of Rotterdam. This event became the trigger for riots which saw people from all over the country pour into the Afrikaanderwijk to watch as anti-immigration protesters destroyed …
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Rehearsing For Freedom in a Post Colonizer/Colonized Dynamic
Metropolis m criticism
31 January 2025The newly appointed artistic director of Kunstinstituut Melly, Gabi Ngcobo, opened her season of programming with eight shows. Musoke Nalwoga visits the different exhibitions in search of Ngcobo’s artistic tone for her six-year tenure.
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Swallowed Like A Whole
A reader by the sanderg institute
18 April 2024Contributions (commissioned and republished) by: Saidiya Hartman, Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, Rots Brouwer, Jamieson Webster, Cesare Pavese, Brackish Collective, Rick Geene, Pelumi Adejumo, Katrina Palmer, Monique Todd, Crip the Curriculum, Johanna Hedva, Musoke Nalwoga, Paul B. …
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Zwart Ibis, Already and Forthcoming
A visitor report for if i can't dance
13 January 2024Back Speaks Back and If I Can't Dance in collaboration with Africadelic, Caribbean Creativity and Re/Presenting Europe present the première of the short film 'Zwarte Ibis'. Dedicated to showcasing the film and the voices of those involved in its making, the evening includes a …