Place EIGENHEIM Berlin
Opening 05.06.2021 at 7 pm
Duration 05.06. – 10.07.2021
Opening hours Tue. – Sat. 14 – 19 clock and by appointment

The opening will take place on Saturday 05.06.2021 with a limited number of visitors. There may be short waiting periods. However, on Sunday 06.06. we will be exceptionally open between 14 and 19 clock. The artist will be present during this period.

Masimba Hwati was born in 1982 in Harare, Zimbabwe and is artist in residence at the Radio Art Residency Weimar. Now we are showing the works created there at EIGENHEIM Berlin in the Salon. Among them are objects, instruments and costumes, which were used in various performances, as well as drawings, sound and video documentations. The busy artist works at the interface of object, performance as well as sound and is known for unconventional three-dimensional sculptures made of various materials and media.

Masimba Hwati holds an MFA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and is a doctoral student at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the field of art practice. He is an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of painting and Sculpture class of 2019. Hwati studied and taught sculpture at Harare Polytechnic Art School. He is represented in various museums – including University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA), Iziko, South African National Gallery, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Scott White Contemporary, San Diego, George R. Nnamdi Collection, Detroit Michigan, National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Gervanne & Matthias Leridon Collection. In 2015, he exhibited in the Zimbabwean Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. He is an honorary research fellow at Rhodes University Fine Arts Department in Grahamstown, SA and has had solo and group exhibitions in many different countries including Belgium, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Germany, USA, France and Canada.

https://www.galerie-eigenheim.de/exhibitions/masimba-hwati-be-continued/