The "Seed Awards" are given every year to artists and cultural professionals who are in the first five years of their careers, "whose practices are socially engaged and address pressing issues in local contexts, covering a variety of themes", he says. a statement sent to VerAngola.
Luamba Muinga is the first Angolan to receive him. The prize, monetary, also establishes a network of support and mentoring, networking and technical support to allow the winner to explore new perspectives and develop their practice on their own terms.
Luamba Muinga is a curator, producer and cultural critic. He is co-author of 'Are we not makers of history?' (Bag Factory, Johannesburg, 2020), with Mozambican curator Sara Carneiro.
He coordinates the LabCC-Laboratório de Crítica e Curadoria, an art platform for young curators and art critics in Luanda.
This recognition is the result of the work presented in the last two years. In September of this year, Luamba Muinga was nominated to be part of the research and production program 'TURN2 RESIDENCIES', at the Center for Art and Urban Planning in Berlin. The project to be presented will be 'Serendipitious history – the vertragsarbeiter', which places the relations of Angola and socialist Germany in the second half of the 1980s, exploring the lives of more than 6000 Angolan factory workers and students during the period.
Curator Luamba Muinga is the first Angolan to win the international “Seed Awards”
The 25-year-old curator and cultural researcher Luamba Muinga won the “Seed Awards” sponsored by the Prince Claus Fund, a Dutch organization established as a tribute to the prince and whose mission is to support, honor and connect artists and cultural professionals on various continents .
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