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Southnord Residency Programme Webinars

We are thrilled to launch the Southnord Residency Programme, a unique opportunity for visual artists and curators of African decent situated in the Nordics to spend time with their practices, while immersed in a contemporary African art context. This marks a significant milestone in our journey to make space for artistic exchange, expanding our horizons to nurture deep connections between the Afro-Nordic diaspora and the Continent.

Our long-term ambition is to develop relationships with multiple partners all across the continent and expand our offering from one residency spot to several, as and when funding permits. To this end, we will be hosting a series of webinars featuring some of the amazing independent art spaces operating in different countries. These include:

  • Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (Zambia)

  • Raw Material Company (Senegal)

  • Kin Art Studio (Democratic Republic of Congo)

  • Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (Ghana)

  • 32° East (Uganda)

  • nhereraHUB (Zimbabwe)

Dates: 13 and 20 January 2025
Time: 17:30-19:30 each day

Get To Know The Spaces

  • Lusaka Contemporary Art Centre (LuCAC)

    LuCAC is a private non-profit facility dedicated to artistic research, exhibition and resource sharing. As a hub for decolonisation, LuCAC encourages formal and informal artistic research and experimentation to challenge dominant narratives and interrogate common stories and histories. This mission aims to influence the trajectory of equitable and self-aware human development. It facilitates and promotes knowledge production relevant to artistic development in Zambia and beyond, acknowledging the hybridity resulting from migration, immigration, and globalisation. As an artist-driven project space and cultural repository, LuCAC increases the visibility of Zambian Contemporary art through radical knowledge production and creative experimentation. The center features a gallery with rotating exhibitions, a studio for artistic collaboration, a library for research, and art residency facilities for national and international artists. By fostering a community that challenges dominant narratives, LuCAC promotes self-aware human development and empowers the growth of Zambian Contemporary art. Through its programmes and facilities, LuCAC serves as a vibrant platform for artistic innovation and cultural exchange.

  • Kin ArtStudio (KAS)

    Kin ArtStudio is an independent and non-profit art organization based in Kinshasa that encourages creation in the field of visual arts and other forms of contemporary expression. This by promoting exchanges with other artists and artistic initiatives around the world, by strengthening the capacities of young Congolese artists and by professionalizing artistic practice. Building on its past and recent achievements, this center is expanding its field of action and influence. Enriched by its many achievements, KAS pursues its mission to offer a creative, international multidisciplinary residency program for artists and curators for the practice of contemporary visual arts in Kinshasa. Or newlocation isat the industrial space of the CPA concession,It is a former and an emblematic place of the industrial history of the textile industry in DR Congo. This place, is very spacious and with great potential, this space has several artist studios, offices, project spaces, a library, technical workshops and a bistro-restaurant. The building’s very central yet historic location helps to attract attention and focuses the mostdiverse important interests which Kin ArtStudio needs for its development prospects. However, one day, it plans to build a large dream space for contemporary creation in DR.Congo.

  • nhereraHUB

    nhereraHUB is a place for thinking, learning, studying, sharing, researching, and creating. Located in Harare, Zimbabwe, it is one of Africa's youngest artist-led spaces and the brainchild of nora chipaumire. Founded in 2022, nhereraHUB provides a safe space for creative minds to explore aesthetic processes through the body, finding intellectual and collective movement.The HUB provides a platform for generative thought to develop as both creative practice and communal ritual and seeks to provide access to residency space, library archives, and a state-of-the-art sound studio for creators and thinkers coming from near and far to advance projects from within the global south. The compound also features productive gardens and a wood-fire kitchen, offering the opportunity to participate in a return to culinary arts informed by local and traditional practice

  • Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA)

    Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Tamale (SCCA Tamale) is an artist-run institution that functions as project space, exhibition and research hub, cultural repository and artists’ residency. It is the initiative of world-renowned Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama as a contribution to the development and expansion of infrastructure for contemporary art in Ghana. The project birthed two sister institutions: RedClay, a complex of studios in 2020 and Nkrumah Voli-ni, an old uncompleted silo converted to a museum for Science and Culture in 2021. Since its opening in 2019, the institution has dedicated its programming to unravelling modernist and contemporary histories in Ghanaian art beginning with its twentieth century progenitors. Affiliated to blaxTARLINES KUMASI, SCCA Tamale works to produce and share knowledge through exhibitions, workshops, publications and allied activities

  • 32° East

    32° East is an independent non-profit organisation providing artists with the support, resources, and community they need to advance their craft, critically reflect our world, and imagine a new one. Our award-winning ecological centre can be found in Kabalagala, Kampala and includes studios, a contemporary art library and co-working space, computers, meeting areas and a lush garden. Our programme offers the visual arts community opportunities for connection through our monthly meet-ups and global networks, provides artists-in-residence with resources to grow their practice, and builds new audiences through Kampala’s longest-running contemporary art festival KLA ART.

  • RAW Material Company

    RAW Material Company is a Dakar-based center for art, knowledge and society. It was founded as a project in 2008 before becoming a physical space in 2011. Our Founding Director, Koyo Kouoh responded to an urgent need in Senegal for a site of critical reflection on artistic practice and its symbiotic relationship with society. While Dakar was already renowned for its biennial and lively artistic scene and history, there was nowhere in the city to explore, discuss or expand on art as being generative of knowledge in relation to the most pressing social issues of our time. It therefore became paramount to build an independent institution that could contribute to reformulating society’s relationship to art, not only in Dakar but in constant collaboration and dialogue with the rest of the African continent and allies across the globe