LUBAINA HIMID and Magda Stawarska
Nets for Night and Day

MUDAM Luxembourg
Mar 7 – Aug 24, 2025

Featuring new and significant works, this exhibition is the first full scale European survey presenting the collaborative artistic practice of Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska. Conceived as a performance, the exhibition emerges from a decade-long dialogue between Himid and Stawarska. It includes painting, drawings, sculpture, silkscreen printing, photography and sound installation. Central to the exhibition is a newly imagined presentation of Zanzibar (1999–2023). The nine diptychs by Himid composing this ‘series of paintings about a series of journeys’ float suspended rhythmically in space and enter in dialogue with a 38-minute sound piece conceived by Stawarska as a ‘libretto’ for the paintings. Each of them, an abstraction at first, present codified clues into Himid’s life. Associated with sound fragments that evoke her personal history, Zanzibar reflects on the multifaceted notions of belonging, loss and memory.

RELATED PROGRAMMING

Artist Talk | Mar 6, 7:30–8:30 PM
Mudam Auditorium
A conversation between Lubaina Himid, Magda Stawarska, Dr. Omar Kholeif and Bettina Steinbrügge

For more information about the exhibition, please visit MUDAM Luxembourg's website.