This solo exhibition by Gloria Kiconco considers how text and paper become staging grounds for stories about life and relationships. Each artwork holds the language of intimacy, revealing a soft and subtle way of responding to heartbreak. Throughout the series there...
Borderlands Art hosted a private artist talk featuring Gloria Kiconco and Charity Atukunda, two artists from Confluence, in an intimate discussion about their creative processes and the themes of fragmentation and synthesis in their work. This exclusive event brought...
Four contemporary artists - Manuela Lara, Gloria Kiconco, Charity Atukunda, and Elsadig Janka are holding a group exhibition in Kampala titled "Confluence: Fission, Fusion, and Creative Alchemy" that is exploring the dynamic intersections of art, culture, and identity...
Transition Magazine’s archive was a central artist resource. The historical publication—founded in Uganda in 1961—provided a framework to question liberation. In this way, the magazine was a companion text to both inform our curatorial process and a touchstone for...
On 9 December 2022 we sat, saturated by days of conversation and energisedfor new collaborations. This was not a workshop with defined aims and objectives,rather it was an invitation to share food and ideas. Three curators, Kara, Sofia andBonita and a curious leader,...
Raan aci thong kek weng , Letaru Dralega, 2022
Laeïla Adjovi and Alexander Kyungu Mwilambwe link African pasts to new imagined futures. Through their work with rubber and cotton, they contend with borders and bodies. The materials are their storytelling agents, deployed to make social and environmental commentary...
Three female artists from Uganda and Benin present textiles, zines, and photography that reimagine contemporary African experiences through materials, memory, and the environment. Charity Atukunda (Uganda), Gloria Kiconco (Uganda), and Laeïla Adjovi (Benin) showcase...
Piloya Irene shares a combination of three different kinds of fabrics juxtaposed together: Kyenkyen, Dawadawa, and Lubugo. Made in Ghana and Uganda, the materials connect two traditions of textile making. Kyenkyen has been organically produced in Ghana since before...
The hadra is a ritual, with embodied gatherings and invocations of communion with ancestral spirituality. The term translates from Arabic to mean a Devine presence. It is this presence that Elsadig Janka connects in his series Ahmed My Beloved. For this photographic...
This exhibition brings together the diverse practices of four artists, each working within their own distinct mediums yet unified by a shared exploration of the forces of fission, fusion, and creative convergence. The exhibition explores how fragmentation and unity,...
Borderlands Art is delighted to present works from the SEND ME exhibition. Following the idea that insecurity is not new, the exhibition took a historical and contemporary look at artistic freedom. It traced different eras of political repression in Uganda and...
For the first time in South Africa, we showcased the work of emerging artists Elsadig Janka (Sudan) and Manuela Lara (Colombia). These two artists use contemporary art as a form of liberation, reframing narratives of violence through activism and resilience. Their...
1-4 October 2026 The group presentation from Borderlands Art will take collectors on a journey from the DR Congo, to Uganda and across the globe to the UK. Alexander Kyungu Mwilambwe links African pasts to new imagined futures. He uses traditional symbols and...
This solo exhibition by Gloria Kiconco considers how text and paper become staging grounds for stories about life and relationships. Each artwork holds the language of intimacy, revealing a soft and subtle way of responding to heartbreak. Throughout the series there...
Borderlands Art USA debut presents three female African artists: Charity Atukunda (Uganda), Gloria Kiconco (Uganda) and Laeïla Adjovi (Benin). These artists present textiles, zines, and photography that reimagine contemporary African experiences through materials,...