First Floor Gallery Harare

We are thrilled to present Pebofatso Mokoena's second solo exhibition with the gallery and the honour of the artist joining us for the opening!

We celebrated the incredible talent of Patrick Makumbe last Sunday. A huge Thank you to everyone who came out.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/patrick-makumbe-ndash-kuva-ziso.html

Grace Nyahangare "Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora (We don’t forget but we heal)" showing in Harare now.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/grace-nyahangare-ndash-hatikanganwe-asi-tinopora.html

Grace Nyahangare
Murudo murudo, 2023
oil, printer's ink and monotype on canvas
150.00 x 120.00 cm

Grace Nyahangare "Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora (We don’t forget but we heal)" showing in Harare now.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/grace-nyahangare-ndash-hatikanganwe-asi-tinopora.html

We are thrilled to announce that Miriro Mwandiambira will be joining the 9th edition of the Art Residency Project in Rome this year! Congratulations Miriro! 🎊

Grace Nyahangare's debut solo Hatikanganwe Asi Tinopora (We don’t forget but we heal) is built on personal experience of pain and growth, the exhibition, does not revel in self-indulgence of spoon-fed suffering. It is rather a cinematically addressed landscape of memories and reflections on experiences which left an indelible mark in Nyahangare’s life.

A huge thank you to everyone that came to the opening last Friday.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/grace-nyahangare-ndash-hatikanganwe-asi-tinopora.html

As part of Harare Art Meeting we hosted a series of panel discussions. The first one, "Collecting in Conversation" was graced by 3 emerging African collectors: Marcelle Halsted, Karabo Morule and Ropafadzo Chidawu

We would like to Congratulate Amanda Shingirai Mushate for being selected as one of the finalists for the ANNA Award 2023 .online

https://latitudes.online/artists/amanda_shingirai_mushate

Harare Art Meeting - Annually First Floor Gallery Harare, hosts visitors to Harare and local supporters for a series of collector focused art events. Please join us this Thursday morning 13 July, 2023 for a programme of talks and studio visits at First Floor Gallery Harare on 2nd Floor of Karigamombe Centre, Harare.

"Where there is love there is work, where there is the love of work and the work of love, there is life."

Amanda Shingirai Mushate and Tashinga Majiri "Rudo Rwunouya Nemabasa," showing in Harare now.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/amanda-mushate--tashinga-majiri---rudo-rwunuya-nemabasa.html

This past weekend we were in Victoria Falls for the opening of "Messe Messe" group exhibition and the Fabrik Party activation. We'd like to thank everyone that came out.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/messe-messe.html

TOP sculptor and painter, Miriro Mwandiambira, has been appointed new assistant curator for the First Floor Gallery Harare. Marcus Gora, who manages the gallery, believes Mwandiambira’s vast experience in art will certainly take the gallery to a higher level.>https://rb.gy/zevx3

Last month, we learned with great sadness about the sudden passing of Cuban artist .
David was an amazing artist and a friend to everyone at our gallery, always eager to support, help, with good humour and excellent ci**rs.
In November 2018, First Floor Gallery Harare, hosted “The Secret Garden” a major exhibition of David’s work. The Secret Garden, was a series of wall works, transforming global statistics on the cost of violence into beautifully designed paintings of pot plants. Knowing something about David’s personal history, it is difficult not to think that his work like him was about maintaining the extraordinary cognitive dissonance of knowing the horrors of life and maintaining a commitment to joy.
He developed the concept further with another major exhibition at the titled "In the point of view". When he was leaving with his family for London after their 3 year stay in Zimbabwe, he donated a number of trestle tables and art materials that are still being used for our children’s art classes. Our love goes out to Catherine and Benjamin and to all family and friends. ❤️🌻

We are thrilled to announce that Troy Makaza has been selected together with Moffat Takadiwa, Gillian Roselli, Victor Nyakuru, Kombo Chapfika and Sekai Machache to be part of the team of artists representing the Zimbabwe national Pavillon at the 60th Venice Biennale to be curated by Fadzai Muchemwa and commissioned by the National Gallery of Zimbabwe in 2024.

Congratulations to all 🇿🇼🎊

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Miriro Mwandiambira as our new Assistant Curator.

Mwandiambira has a long-standing association with First Floor Gallery Harare, having commenced her career with us as a painter and sculptor, after completing studies at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe Visual Art Studio. Over the past decade, her practice evolved to include installation, sound work, video and performance and research-based projects, which was consolidated by taking part in RAW Academy in 2018 Dakar, under the mentorship of Tracey Rose.

In 2019 Miriro won a scholarship to undertake a Masters of Art in Public Spheres at édhea, Switzerland, which she completed com laude in 2021. Mwandiambira positions herself as a social commentator and storyteller with an unapologetically female-centric perspective, both as an African woman in the local and globalised context. As part of her role at FFGH, she will work on developing new exhibition projects with gallery artists as well as international collaborations focused on extending gallery and artistic practices.

Sharing a few bright moments from what was a joyful husband and wife collaborative exhibition opening between Amanda Mushate and Tashinga Majiri!

Family time is best time with the Mokoenas .online

We are super delighted to announce that we'll be showcasing works by Amanda Mushate, Pebofatso Mokoena and Zacharaha Magasa at Latitudes Online from 26 to 28 May in Johannesburg.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/latitudes-2023.html

Last chance to see Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude's solo exhibition 'Ziva Munhu Wako' in Victoria Falls which comes down in the next few weeks.

"Ziva mhunu wako (know your person), is a tenet, which builds an interpretational layer in complement to ubuntu (I am because you are). Knowing your person, includes know thyself but builds into it a relational structure, which creates possibilities for multiple relationships and coexistences, as well as a quest for wisdom without sinking into cynicism and misanthropy."

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/gresham-tapiwa-nyaude---ziva-munhu-wako.html

In March we marked the end of Again Chokuwamba's residency with an open studio and artist conversation titled "Incipience of Responsibility." A big thank you to everyone that came out.

After 10 months of growing and changing at the JavettUP, SCENORAMA is travelling to the KZNSA Gallery where works will be presented in their ‘complete’ form, from 5 May - 4 June 2023.

This is a collaborative platform initiated for artistic research and experimentation, allowing a ground for shared networks of experiences in Africa and the Diaspora.

eThekwini based artist Nindya Bucktowar has been invited to join SCENORAMA for this iteration of the project

Alongside:
Amanda Mushate, (ZIM)
Luana Vitra (BR),
Manyaku Mashilo (SA),
Nolan Oswald Dennis (SA),
Nyakallo Maleke (SA),
Oscar Murillo (COL/UK),
Paulo Nazareth (BR),
Simnikiwe Buhlungu (SA/NL) & Tessa Mars (HAT/NL) in collaboration,
Thierry Oussou (BEN/NL)
Zara Julius (SA).

Images from the spectacular opening of Mavis Tauzenis first solo exhibition in Harare since 2018, "It is Reality." A massive Thank you to everyone that came out.

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/mavis-tauzeni---it-is-reality.html

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Visit us at EXPO CHICAGO booth 272 - Exposure from 13 - 16 April 2023, where we will be presenting works by Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Helen Teede.

8 days left to see Wycliffe Mundopa's solo exhibition Southern Guild in Cape Town. "Pachipamwe (We Meet Again)"
8 February - 20 April 2023

“Using the dichotomies of anger in beauty and beauty in the pain, Mundopa enables us to emerge from the dichotomy of looking and seeing. Not only do his mythologised but dramatically real subjects compel you to see them, they challenge you to question the way you look, moving between didactic and heroic as though that was a natural oscillation.”

📸 Images courtesy of Southern Guild

Wycliffe Mundopa

We are super excited to be presenting works by Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude and Helen Teede at EXPO CHICAGO from 13 - 16 April.

Wycliffe Mundopa Still making waves in Cape Town!

We are sad to see Helen Teede's solo exhibition 'Cocoon' come to an end on the 24th of March! Don't miss your chance to experience her mesmerising paintings and installations over the next week!

https://www.firstfloorgalleryharare.com/helen-teede---cocoon.html

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https://artnewsafrica.com/ana-spotlight-wycliffe-mundopa/

ANA Spotlight: Wycliffe Mundopa - Art News Africa Wycliffe Mundopa create awareness about the lives of women and children in Harare’s underprivileged neighborhoods using his art style.

https://www.theindependent.co.zw/life-amp-style/article/200008170/teede-gets-candid-in-her-latest-exhibition #

Teede gets candid in her latest exhibition Teede gets candid in her latest exhibition

We are pleased to present works by Amanda Shingirai Mushate and Troy Makaza at Booth A-11, Art Dubai in collaboration with Kó.

Wycliffe Mundopa’s technicolour triumphs of Zimbabwean contemporary life Wycliffe Mundopa’s latest exhibition is currently showcasing in a double solo alongside Porky Hefer at Southern Guild Gallery.