Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day

^{Lubaina Himid, In Your Dreams, 2021–2022. Courtesy of the artist, Hollybush Gardens, London and Greene Naftali, New York. Photo: Gavin Renshaw. Magda Starwarska, Slipping Veil, Katowice, 2024. Courtesy the artist and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix, London. Photo: M. Stawarska.}

Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean announces Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day. Curated by Dr. Omar Kholeif, Director of Collections and Senior Curator, Sharjah Art Foundation, the exhibition features new and significant works and 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 British painter Lubaina Himid (1954, Zanzibar), a leading figure of the British Black Arts Movement, and UK-based multidisciplinary Polish artist Magda Stawarska (1976, Ruda Śląska, Poland), whose practice combines moving images, soundscapes and screen printing.

In their exhibition Nets for Night and Day, memory unfolds as a score narrated through paintings and drawings, as well as sculpture, silkscreen printing, photography and sound installation. Visitors will find themselves on a journey aboard ships, venturing across carts and ambling into dreamscapes rendered by the artists’ collective imagination.

^{Lubaina Himid, The Carrot Piece, 1985. Acrylic paint on plywood wood and cardboard and string. Tate Collection.}

In addition to the exhibition the public programme includes Mudam Akademie in conversation with Dr Christine Eyene. In this event titled ‘Black Art – From 1980s Britain to the Present’, the art historian and curator will discuss the emergence of the British Black Arts Movement from the late 1970s – early 1980s to its global resonance today. Lubaina Himid has recently been announced as the artist representing Britain at the next Venice Biennale. The talk will also highlight the journeys and achievements of Black artists who have represented Britain in the past decade.

Lubaina Himid and Magda Stawarska: Nets for Night and Day
07 March – 24 August 2025
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Mudam Akademie in conversation with Dr Christine Eyene
12 March 2025, 19:00 – 20:00, in English
10€ | 5€ with Mudam à 2 Card
Free for students and under 21-year-old
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