Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Georgina Maxim »Button«
Mexico City, September 19, 2025 - October 04, 2025
Georgina Maxim (b. 1980, Zimbabwe) is an artist and curator based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Co-founder of Village Unhu, an artist-run space fostering emerging and professional artists, Maxim combines over a decade of curatorial and arts management experience with a distinctive artistic practice. Her work focuses on textiles, utilizing embroidery, sewing, and weaving to deconstruct and recompose second-hand clothing, creating unique pieces that act as vessels of memory and storytelling. Maxim’s art transcends simple categorization, reflecting lived experiences embedded in recycled garments.
She has exhibited widely, including at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Delta Gallery (Harare), 31 PROJECT (Paris), Mojo Gallery (Dubai), and the Goethe Institute (Brazil). Notably, she represented Zimbabwe at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. Maxim holds a master’s degree from the University of Bayreuth, enhancing her curatorial practice. Her recent exhibitions include the Bargoin Museum (France, 2020), FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine (France, 2021), MuCAT (Ivory Coast, 2022), Somerset House (UK, 2022), HKW Berlin (Germany, 2023), and the 2024 group show Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art at Barbican Centre (London) and Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam).
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Searching for that same old memory, 2024, mixed media textile, 135 x 130 cm, 53 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
Searching for that same old memory, 2024, mixed media textile, 135 x 130 cm, 53 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
Searching for that same old memory, 2024, mixed media textile, 135 x 130 cm, 53 1/8 x 51 1/8 in
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Collabo with the heart II, 2025, mixed media textile, 110 x 84 cm, 43 1/4 x 33 1/8 in
Collabo with the heart II, 2025, mixed media textile, 110 x 84 cm, 43 1/4 x 33 1/8 in
Collabo with the heart II, 2025, mixed media textile, 110 x 84 cm, 43 1/4 x 33 1/8 in
Collabo with the heart I, 2025, mixed media textile, 154 x 130 cm, 60 5/8 x 51 1/8 in
Collabo with the heart I, 2025, mixed media textile, 154 x 130 cm, 60 5/8 x 51 1/8 in
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Button I, 2025, mixed media textile, 155 x 145 cm, 61 x 57 1/8 in
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Revealing what you do not want to meet again, 2024, mixed media textile, 130 x 140 cm, 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in
Revealing what you do not want to meet again, 2024, mixed media textile, 130 x 140 cm, 51 1/8 x 55 1/8 in
Septimus Wuwu, 2025, mixed media textile, 156 x 125 cm, 61 3/8 x 49 1/4 in
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Installation view, Button, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico City, 2025
Septimus Wuwu I, 2025, mixed media textile, 140 x 145 cm, 55 1/8 x 57 1/8 in
Septimus Wuwu I, 2025, mixed media textile, 140 x 145 cm, 55 1/8 x 57 1/8 in
I'm not here but there, 2025, mixed media textile, 170 x 190 cm, 66 7/8 x 74 3/4 in
I'm not here but there, 2025, mixed media textile, 170 x 190 cm, 66 7/8 x 74 3/4 in
Spellings with Kana I, 2024, mixed media textile, 135 x 130 cm, 53 1/8 x 51 1/8 in