As the New Year starts, we want to thank all the people we had worked with for your incredible input, interest and support of the Thami Mnyele Foundation Residency throughout 2023!

Thanks to you, and with the financial support of the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts , AFK,  the Thami Mnyele Foundation has continued to be a special and necessary artist residency, focusing on a cultural exchange for artists from Africa and African diaspora. We remained committed to nurturing the next generation of artists, researchers and curators, through our foundational Artist-in-Residence program, which awards our guests with an unparalleled opportunity to develop their practice, research, connections and friendships.

This year we worked with wonderful artists, researchers and curators, such Nkule Mabaso,  Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Georges Senga (in collaboration with Framer Framed), CUPP collective (Razia Baesatie and Marjet Zwaans), Carine Mansan (in collaboration with Société Générale Foundation) Caterina Pecchioli, Quentley Barbara (in collaboration with CBK Zuid-oost), MADE YOU LOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho) Isabel Hofmeyr (in collaboration with Afrovibes), Naima Hassan and Billy Fowo (in collaboration with de Appel).

Throughout the year we collaborated with various local artists and curators, art institutions, museums, universities, schools and local communities, and participated in many inspiring events and programmes where explored topics, including the research on the dutch colonial and apartheid histories done by Nkule Mabaso and neocolonial exploitation of resources, earth and labour in Congo by Jean Katambayi Mukendi and Georges Senga, members of On-Trade-Off collective, which culminated in an exhibition at Framer Framed; CUPP collective’s (Razia Barsatie and Marjet Zwaans) rework on a publication for CUPP collective and their research/practice; in partnership the MuCAT and INSAAC, in cooperation with new Société Générale Foundation in Bassam and with the PRIX DÉCOUVERTE JEUNE TALENT X SOCIETY GENERALE CI 2022, we worked with Carine Mansan, who was exploring her new position as a working artist-mother and hosted a brilliant artist talk during Amsterdam Art Week; Caterina Pecchioli worker other research on colonial heritage in textiles and fashion, which was supported by Italian Council of Culture, including a workshop in CBK Zuidoost, and a full-house roundatable discussion in Framer Framed, which eventually resulted in podcast series (you can find them here); working with local neighbourhoods on the themes on colonial histories and decolonisation and participation in Zuidoost parade with Quentley Barbara, for which he made sculptures, research and keynote on Ocean humanities, on East Africa and Indian Ocean by Isabel Hofmeyr, collaboration with de Appel, MADEYOULOOK (Molemo Moiloa and Nare Mokgotho) and Billy Fowo, research on African libraries by Naima Hassan and a studio visits with Young Collectors Circle.