Congratulations Nicole Remus, the winner of the MMA Prize 2024, selected by the Jury. Born in 1995, Nicole Remus is a self-taught artist-curator that holds a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Makerere University, Uganda. Her art practice can be described as largely experimental with a central theme of identity. Nicole’s entry artwork “Eight: An Anthology” […]

Congratulations to Sandra Suubi, the Winner of the MMA Prize 2022. Her entry artwork ‘Samba Gown I, II, III’ selected under the medium of Photography and Wearable Sculpture is part of a broader performance piece by the artist, re-enacting and rethinking the bride’s walk down the aisle but using the streets of Kampala. The artwork […]

Born in 1992, Ronald Odur is a multi-media artist in Uganda. He mostly works with aluminium plates, which he manipulates by embossing, burning, stitching, creasing and adding wire, paper and other objects. His work and ideas then reveal themselves as sculpture, installation, drawing and performance. His connection to aluminium, which is his primary resource, started […]

The MMA Prize in 2018 was won by Pamela Enyonu with her piece called Bwino. “‘Bwino’ is a Luganda word which means ‘ink’. Its usage has evolved to mean checked and proven facts as basis of logical arguments and conclusions. In this day of ‘alternative’ facts, there is even a bigger need to real facts […]