09/10/2026 – 24/01/2027,

Euridice Zaituna Kala

, Kunsthalle Münster

The Kunsthalle Münster is showing the first solo exhibition of Mozambican artist Euridice Zaituna Kala in a German institution from October 2026 to January 2027. Kala's artistic work emerges from a profound deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction of cultural and historical metamorphoses. With her works, she invites us to engage with the historical and cultural transformations of (personal and collective) memory. Particular attention is paid to the complex relations-hip between colonialism and post-colonialism as well as post-colonial remembrance. With her artistic research and creations, she has developed an impressive strategy to engage with the long history of erasure and silencing and to trace invisible subjectivities and communities.

The exhibition brings together the voices of numerous struggles—ecological, feminist, indigenous—and connects them with the history of Kala and the places where her exhibition can be seen. It is a dialog between the interior and the exterior, objective and subjective elements, stories and images, a vibrant, sensual and luminous homage to the forces of life. Kala investigates the ambivalence of historical narratives and pursues a constant rewriting of history, filling in its gaps. Her works take the form of installations, performances, paintings, objects and books, in which she combines her research with personal memories to give voice to the unheard and forgotten.

After a first version of the exhibition was shown at La Criée in Rennes from February to April 2025, where the artist entered into a dialogue with the river, the glass and stone architecture, the people and forgotten plants of the city, the project will travel to La Loge in Brussels next year and finally to the Kunsthalle Münster. For the presentation in Münster, Kala will develop the exhibition further and produce several new works, with the Kunsthalle becoming a stage for discussions. The artistic search for traces opens up a space in which visitors can pursue forgotten stories, both individually and collectively, as well as the question of why they were forgotten and what this forgetting (consciously or unconsciously) entails.

Euridice Zaituna Kala (born 1987 in Maputo, Mozambique) lives and works in Maison-Alfort, France. Kala trained in photography at the Market Photo Workshop in Johannesburg from 2010 to 2012 and at the Asiko School in Maputo in 2015. Her artistic work emerges from a profound deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction of cultural and historical metamorphoses. Through her artistic research and creations, she has developed an impressive strategy to deal with the long history of erasure and silencing that people from Mozambique and other countries have experienced first-hand. The artist reproduces the visual vocabulary of historical archives to reveal their subjectivities, but also those that have made them invisible. She questions the appropriation of black bodies through their representation in the archives; but instead of appropriating their history, she seeks to affirm their existence.

Kala has staged numerous performances, including Ritual as March as Protest, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2023); Sea(E)scapes: Listening Session, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); Tœtra, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2021); Stranger, Danger: Wait, it's just a prayer Room__, Center Pompidou, Paris (2019); _Mackandal Turns into a Butterfly: a love portion, La Galerie-CAC de Noisy-le-Sec (2018). Her most recent exhibitions include En quelques gestes: as if two suns were setting, galerie anne barrault, Paris (2024); Echos der Bruderländer, HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2024); Prémio Paulo Cunha e Silva, Galerie Municipal, Porto (2023); Indigo Waves and Other Stories, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2023); Sea(E) scapes DNA: Don't (N)ever Ask, Galerie Salon H, Paris (2022); Fata Morgana, Jeu de Paume, Paris (2022); This Is Not Africa - Unlearn What You Have Learned, ARoS Museum, Aarhus (2021); Je suis l'archive, I the archive, Villa Vassilieff, Paris (2020). In 2024, she was invited to participate in the exhibition Passengers in Transit as part of the 60th edition of the Venice Biennale.