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Mexico City, September 12, 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.

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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).