Get to know the KLA ART ’24 artists
If you have not met the KLA ART ’24 artists, let us take this as an opportunity to reintroduce them to you. You can find their profiles on the KLA ART Instagram and Facebook pages and on the KLA ART ’24 website. You will be seeing more about their projects and behind-the-scenes as the festival […]
Seyi Adekelun
Seyi Adelekun is a London-based multidisciplinary artist with Yoruba-Nigerian heritage. Their practice focuses on creating sites rooted in deep ecology and nature’s spiritual wisdom, with the aim to foster interconnectedness, ecological awareness and environmental stewardship. Seyi’s work centres indigenous knowledge through embodied practices including movement, rituals, and bio-material craft. Creating installations, performance art and facilitating […]
Names of artists’ projects
The KLA ART ’24 artists are busy working and thinking through their projects. Here is a sneak peak with each artist and their project name: Seyi Adelekun – Tree of Life | Monica Aheirwebyona – Hamue Pavilion | Mercy Ajatum – Agilya | Evans Akanyijuka and Kevin Murungi – Punishment and Precaution | The Secret Society of Publishers – Unwriting Worskhops | Claire Balungi and […]
The road to KLA ART ’24 has begun!
The road to KLA ART ’24 has begun! This week begins a series of workshops on materials, process, and care as heritage. Covering different aspects of cultural heritage and care from ethno-botany to natural dyes, basketry to textiles, these workshops will give deeper insight into different practices, create opportunities for exchange between the artists, and […]
Congratulations to selected artists
Monica Aheirwebyona (UG), Mercy Ajatum (UG), Evans Akanijuka and Kevin Murungi (UG), The Secret Society of Publishers (SA), Claire Zerida Balungi and Jim Joel Nyakaana (UG), Fatuma Hassan (UG), Sixte Kakinda (DRC), Lyndah Katusiime (UG), Rebecca Khamala and Birungi Kawooya (UG/UK), Catherine Lie (ID/MX), Brogan Aaron Mwesigwa (UG), Maria Olivia Nakato (UG) Racheal Ndagire (UG), Nilotika Cultural Ensemble (UG), […]
Monica Aheirwebyona
Ahairwebyona Monica is a graduate architect who believes in the power of good design to solve everyday problems. She is also an educator whose hope is that in sharing what she has learnt the generation after her is able to do better.In addition, as an architectural photographer, she seeks to tell visual stories of space […]
Mercy Ajatum
Mercy Ajatum is a performing artist and model based in Kampala, Uganda. In her journey Mercy has engaged with communities using her art as a tool of social change. She loves to explore culture through fashion and dance. She has been part of the Brave Kids project in Poland as a leader and performer. As […]
Kevin Murungi and Evans Akanyijuka
Murungi Kevin is a Ugandan-based multidisciplinary artist who has been practicing for 4 years. His practice involves printing on materials, creating digital art, tapestry and fashion. With his fashion brand Afro Muru, Murungi experiments with double exposure, negative and positive space, and symbolism. Most of his work upcycles used fabrics, screen meshes, printing paste and […]
The Secret Society of Publishers
The Secret Society of Publishers (SA) Londiwe Mtshali (b. 1994) is a visual artist, writer and scholar. She is interested in Black women’s homeownership, memory, theories of personal identities, traditional practices, and politics of language. Mtshali works across the disciplines of installation, printmaking, video, photography, textile and text. She completed a NDip (Fine Art) at […]
Jim Joel Nyakaana & Claire Zerida Balungi
Claire (Zerida) Balungi is a journalist who continues to be transformed by documenting society using various forms of art, however, literature and photography have a great claim on her. Claire is a free thinker and rarely believes in sieving ideas when she decides to tell a story; she’s a liberated storyteller and will be spreading […]
