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Open till Sat 7th Dec 16hrs
Tues-Fri 9-17hrs | Sat 10-16hrs
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Exhibition Extension! Artworks from Lawrence Chi

Exhibition Extension!

Artworks from Lawrence Chikwa’s solo exhibition “Lost Garden & Eaten Apples” which will now be open for viewing and purchase at the Everyday Lusaka Gallery till 4th January 2025.

Visit us if you haven’t already!

Our opening hours:  Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday and Monday closed Free entry
📍 Link in bio

Photographs by @mutumbilungu & @theoddfray

Come get some Lusaka-inspired gifts this holiday s

Come get some Lusaka-inspired gifts this holiday season at the gallery! We are open:  Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday and Monday closed Free entry
📍 Link in bio

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A week ago we opened “Lost Garden & Eaten Apples

A week ago we opened “Lost Garden & Eaten Apples” a Solo Exhibition by Lawrence Chikwa curated by @sanaginwalla.

It’s been a wonderful process putting this show together and welcoming new and old friends into the space.

The show runs till the 7th of December 2024. Be sure to come through if you haven’t already and bring a friend.

Audio from the live bansuri and kalimba acoustic session played by @__sahildesai__ and @mufrika_edward @_mufrika at the opening.

Our opening hours:  Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday and Monday closed Free entry
📍 Link in bio

Moments from the opening of Lawrence Chikwa’s so

Moments from the opening of Lawrence Chikwa’s solo “Lost Garden & Eaten Apples” curated by @sanaginwalla, which is still open till Saturday 4th January 2025.   Special thank you to @__sahildesai__ and @_mufrika for the live acoustic music that carried us through the garden.   In this long-awaited-for exhibition as Zambia reaches 60 years of independence, Lawrence Chikwa analyses Zambia’s post-colonial realities. Chibuye Changwe of @art_gallivant in the exhibition text expresses that, “although independence has revealed diverse views among different generations and their descendants, it is colonial pessimism that diminished confidence in both the past and future-making. ‘Lost Garden & Eaten Apples’ is a commentary on the burden of this history, unveiling what lies behind the scenes of a linear narrative about progress and rights.”

Lawrence Chikwa will be at the gallery tomorrow on Thursday 14th November. Pop by to meet him and engage with his thought-provoking series of works.  Our opening hours:  Tues-Fri 9-17hrs
Sat 10-16hrs
Sunday and Monday closed
 FREE ENTRY

📍 Everyday Lusaka Gallery, E. W Tarry Building, Shop #5 Kalundwe Road, off Cairo Road North End, between Jubilee Chemists and Master Glass [Google Map link is in our bio]

Images by Maingaila Muvundika of @theoddfray

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thank you for coming out in numbers! our little space is big happy 💛

Join us for Lawrence Chikwa’s solo at the Everyd

Join us for Lawrence Chikwa’s solo at the Everyday Lusaka Gallery next Saturday!

“As a conceptual artist, Lawrence Chikwa’s work carries profound depth and complexity, weaving a historical timeline through his commentary on Zambia’s colonial history and current societal conditions. He examines the consequences of history and the changing ways we perceive nature, doctrines, religion, and future perspectives within a contemporary capitalist framework.”

In this highly anticipated exhibition of new and past works, ‘Lost Garden & Eaten Apples’ “uses the image of a mythical garden to symbolise Africa as a once-lost paradise, specifically evoking the imagery of Zambia’s journey and the shifts between modernity and nature, traditional practices, and symbols of power.”

Text by Chibuye Changwe of @art_gallivant
Curated by Sana Ginwalla @sanaginwalla

We look forward to seeing you next Saturday on the 9th of November! Free entry. Location in our bio 📍

Thank you all who came to our “Letters to Strang

Thank you all who came to our “Letters to Strangers” event last Saturday ✍️ It was a wonderful day to engage with Daudi who launched his series called “The Commuter” which was printed on a new edition of Everyday Lusaka postcards and folded cards.

All products are available at the gallery and @lsk.collective. Postcards are K50 and folded cards are K100 📮

The current exhibition “A Flock of Voids” at t

The current exhibition “A Flock of Voids” at the Everyday Lusaka Gallery closes this Saturday! The exhibition includes a series of five reworked sculptures by Rabson Phiri which will be travelling to the Open Exhibition @ Sunningdale House this weekend!
 “Arising into leviathan rejection of gravity, Rabson Phiri’s sculptures in wood are syncretic structures that reveal in their twirl shapes of fauna and flora. They have teeth in spaces that resemble a string instrument, and they stand up like a disfigured human body. Their limbs are markers of resistance – a resistance of a life lived beyond the odds. Beginning at a cycle-repair shop, where fixing cycles denuded in journeys in the dust, a place where you make do with parts, re-fashion, re-buff, weld, paint and reuse. Friday Tembo the Zambian sculptor came to repair his cycle to his shop, and they got talking – Rabson visited his studio and claimed he could work on sculpture like him. Here his apprenticeship began under a master who would refashion found material – stone, wood and metal. The sculptor and student were determined to produce an oeuvre that could contain Africa - its beauty, its diverse visuality, music and spirituality. Using a grinder and carving tool, Rabson works wood into a realm of African fantasmic surrealism.”

- From the full essay titled “A Flock of Voids Standing” by Sumesh Manoj Sharma which is published in the exhibition reader and available for purchase or viewing at the gallery!

1. Fashion
2. Kuyopa Zabene (Fear What Belongs to Others)
3. Banachimbusa (Series)
4. Langana Zuba, Langana Nkoloko (Look at the sun, Look at the clock)
5. African African

Curated by @sanaginwalla
Images by @theoddfray

The last day to see “A Flock of Voids” exhibit

The last day to see “A Flock of Voids” exhibition at Everyday Lusaka Gallery by Rabson Phiri and David Makala is on Saturday 26th October! Here we show snippets from Makala’s ongoing “Design Stories” series.  
From the reader essay written by Sumesh Manoj Sharma: 
“In ‘A Flock of Voids’ David prints images on discarded aluminium plates that had previously been used in offset printing of newspapers, textbooks, bibles, psalms, magazines, official documents and technical readers. His figures of humans and animals printed on top of the existing text obscures what these plates had been originally used for printing. Printing on top of a printing plate is akin to the act of layering in painting. As a keen observer of history and materiality, Makala paints a ‘Pan-African’ consciousness where he connects Bob Marley’s poetry of a return to Africa to the political assertions of decolonisation through the quotes of Thomas Sankara. He asks about the image any text holds – how true is that text and how does it become the initiator of our identities?   We see elements of erasure and words that go faint that are covered by the images he produces on them and arrests our attention as the viewer forcing us to decipher if the written word has a connection to the image. Here he asks the pertinent question: Who decides on the written word produced here and how does the authorship of those words construct our lives? As if his images on these plates are the visual markers - images of the lives of people who were constructed by that newspaper article, magazine cutting and the inspiring psalm. Are these divine acts of destiny or well-constructed manipulations of man in power?”  The full essay titled “Why Do Africans Dance” – a question posed by Makala – is published in the exhibition reader, available for purchase or viewing at the gallery!

Curated by @sanaginwalla

Images by @theoddfray and @alex_sikazwe12

Exciting news! 🚌 This Saturday we invite you to

“Connecting the practices of Rabson Phiri and Da

“Connecting the practices of Rabson Phiri and David Daut Makala is how they excavate an object’s past to present a discourse that arrives from both a realm of aesthetics and politics. Using found materials and adapting them into new languages, ‘foraging’ becomes an active act of production of their artwork. Both artists developed their artmaking vocabularies by reconstructing historical contexts and aesthetic philosophies. They bring our understanding of their work back to an African paradigm.”

- Excerpt from “A Flock of Voids” curatorial text, written by Sumesh Manoj Sharma.

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Thank you to everyone that came to the opening of “A Flock of Voids” last Saturday with works by Rabson Phiri and David Daut Makala. It was wonderful to see all your faces and energies in the gallery. The show runs for the next three weeks and we are open from Mon-Thurs from 9-17hrs and Saturdays 10-16hrs. Catch the show before it closes!

Photographs by @theoddfray @alex_sikazwe12 and @mutumbilungu

Next Saturday on 28th September, we open our secon

Next Saturday on 28th September, we open our second exhibition since opening the gallery with sculptural works by Rabson Phiri and prints by David Daut Makala. In “A Flock of Voids”, malleable and unyielding materialities are presented alongside one another. Using wood and aluminium, Phiri and Makala respectively carve and imprint stories of dance, labour, society and traditions through abstract and familiar figurations.

The exhibition will be open for 3 weeks. We look forward to seeing you all there!

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A FLOCK OF VOIDS Rabson Phiri and David Makala  Curated by Sana Ginwalla  🕰️ Saturday 28th September, 15:30hrs – 18:00hrs.  📍 Everyday Lusaka Gallery, E. W Tarry Building, Shop #5 Kalundwe Road, off Cairo Road North End.

Happy Africa Freedom Day! Today we also celebrate

Happy Africa Freedom Day! Today we also celebrate one month since opening the Everyday Lusaka Gallery ✨

Over the past few weeks, we have had hundreds of visitors passing through the space. From students, musicians, artists, vendors, and commuters, the gallery’s location attracts a foot traffic that allows art to intersect in the everyday lives of Lusakans.

It’s been an incredibly exciting first month of meeting so many interesting residents of this city who are all patrons of the arts in one way or the other.

While we are closed today to reflect and rest, we look forward to welcoming you to the gallery in the coming weeks.

The gallery is open Tues-Thurs from 10-15hrs, and Saturdays 10-16hrs. Sundays and Fridays open by appointment (DM us).

Image 1: Yellows and greens outside the gallery

Image 2: Musician Pontiano Kaiche with Sana Ginwalla

Image 3: ISL students buying ice cream outside the gallery after a visit organised by their art teacher Cecelia Miller

Image 4: Artist and founder of Lechwe Trust Collector Cynthia Zukas with Sana Ginwalla, telling her that “the problem is that most artists today are producing works that they feel will sell, but art is supposed to be created with feeling, and your work has meaning.”

Image 5: Journalist and personal reporter for the late Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, Mr. Gabriel Banda at the gallery

Image 6: Mr. Adriaan Maanka Chipindi, director of the National Arts Council with Sana Ginwalla

Image 7: Sana Ginwalla meets art students from Evelyn Hone College, organised by Mr Godfrey Mukwisa and Abraham Simutanyi

Image 8: Sana Ginwalla, Professor Ruth Simbao, and artist David Daut Makala

Image 9: An Open Window University photography class was led from the gallery. Here, students look through David Daut Makala’s works

Image 10: A visitor shares some an image from his own family archives

Thank you to all of our guests who attended the op

Thank you to all of our guests who attended the opening of the Everyday Lusaka Gallery last weekend!

The curator of William B. Miko writes that ‘Who Am I - Here or There’, “is a human history of a young artist and curator Sana Ginwalla, travelling in time and space… Sana is an Indian born in Zambia, whose family originally comes from India and Burma.”

“In Zambia we call all people of Indian origin as ‘Bamwenye’ – basically whose professional careers are mainly assumed to be commercial trade, running shops of different merchandise. However, this is a race of people who are present in every aspect of Zambian life, offering technical and masonry skills, and services in medicine, civil service, agriculture, education and construction from the colonial days till present. It is from these varied professional families that Sana Ginwalla has uniquely emerged as a creative artist and curator, geared to tell the Indian-Zambian experience through a visual lens – a story hardly paid attention to.

The screenprinted photographs in ‘Who Am I – Here or There’ were printed in India on industrial linen spun in a power-loom. The cotton on which this fabric was printed on is commonly known in Bombay as ‘Manjarpatta’, and interestingly, Ginwalla’s last name hails from the cotton ginning factory that her ancestors operated in Gujarat.

The images in the exhibition are from prints, negatives and film stills that Sana scanned from her own family archives, but also from images she salvaged from the historic Fine Art Studios on Chachacha Road that was established in the mid 1950s.

Sana Ginwalla is unveiling history of not only her family but that of Zambia and India’s relationship.”

The gallery is open Tues-Thurs from 10-15hrs, and Saturdays 10-16hrs. Sundays and Fridays open by appointment (DM us).

The location can be found via the link in our bio - swing by!

Photographs by @jestkiiarchives, @myextralens and @bonkoti

Highlights from our opening night… Thank you to

Highlights from our opening night…

Thank you to everyone who made this night possible. From all the behind the scenes preparations, to the guests and patrons of the arts whose gave us their time on a Saturday night, it was incredibly encouraging and affirming to see the support that Everyday Lusaka has garnered over the years.

The gallery space, as the Indian-Zambian founder of Everyday Lusaka Sana Ginwalla expressed in her speech, is a contention to the conventional spaces that we would expect to encounter art in Lusaka. It is an act of her “intellectual gangsterism”, as described by the curator Mr. William B. Miko.

As Zambia turns 60 this year, he writes that there isn’t a more opportune moment to ignite the fire of travelling in time, space and history, to ask ourselves as Sana Ginwalla does in this solo exhibition: ‘Who Am I, Here or There?’

He also writes that as we reflect on our journey to independence, we should “be reminded that the Indian community in Zambia were essential and crucial players to the liberation movement as Zambia fought for independence.”

‘Who Am I, Here or There?’ is a rare insight into Ginwalla’s own family archives and migration into Zambia, inviting us all to reconsider what it means to be Zambian.

We hope you all have a restful Labour Day. The gallery is open Tues-Thurs from 10-15hrs, and Saturdays 10-16hrs. The location can be found via the link in our bio, and we are open today!

Videography by the talented @alex_mack_visuals 💥🙏

On Saturday 27th of April, we were most privileged

On Saturday 27th of April, we were most privileged to have several dignitaries present to officially open the doors to the Everyday Lusaka Gallery.

Our guest of Guest of Honour was the High Commissioner of India to Zambia, Mr. Ashok Kumar. We also were graced by the attendance of Mr. Fumba Chama, the Permanent Secretary Ministry Of Youth, Sports & Arts, Mr. Tilyenji Kaunda, Mr. Matongo Matamwandi, the CEO of Zambia Tourism Agency and of course, the artist @sanaginwalla’s parents, Yunoos, Naseema and Salma Ginwalla and family. The presence and support of these special guests is highly appreciated as we stride into this new chapter!

The curator of the exhibition, Mr. William Bwalya Miko, was also the Master of Ceremonies who brilliantly arranged for the legendary Pontiano Kaiche to colour the festivities of the evening with an engaging performance, including several classic Indian songs that he sang in Hindi! 🇮🇳 🎶 🇿🇲

We give thanks! 🙏

📷 @jetskiiarchives & @theoddfray

It is with great pleasure to share that we now hav

It is with great pleasure to share that we now have an Everyday Lusaka Gallery, which opens TOMORROW on Saturday 27th April!

Located in the pulse of Lusaka’s business district, in a modest space of the historic EW Tarry building on Cairo Road’s north end, the gallery situates itself alongside the conceptual positioning of Everyday Lusaka’s ethos.

We are honoured to have our inaugural exhibition “Who Am I, Here or There?” curated by Mr. William B Miko. The exhibition is a culmination of Everyday Lusaka founder Sana Ginwalla’s artworks and archives that are homed in our Zambia Belonging counter-archive. Ginwalla’s practice is an exploration of how we build and reconcile our relationships, representations and sense of belonging to various spaces.

We hope to see you this Saturday at 16:30hrs as we celebrate this huge milestone of opening our first physical space! The gallery location can be found in the link in our bio!

A FEAST, IBEX HILL, 2023 Corner shops are a conve

A FEAST, IBEX HILL, 2023

Corner shops are a convenient fixture in any neighbourhood as you don’t always have the capacity to make a dash to mall to get your quick fixes.

One my way to work after getting one of these quick fixes, I noticed a bike with some confectioneries in the back, evidently making a delivery.

I loved the green and red colour combination. It was only after the fact that I realised that the mosquito on the wall looked like it was having a feast, the comical nature of it made me love the image even more.

Photo and words by Maingaila Muvundika / @myextralens.

This month, we posted images from our latest set of postcards that are all shot by Mainga. Each postcard is going for K50, and limited edition signed postcards are going for K100. DM to make your orders!

EMPATHETIC MUSING, IBEX HILL, 2023 I’ve always

EMPATHETIC MUSING, IBEX HILL, 2023

I’ve always been very saddened by dogs having to be locked up all day because they are a danger to people who may not know them even though that’s the design and conditioning they’ve been purposely put through.

The feeling of being trapped and wanting to get out of a situation that is beyond your control is something I think a lot of us can relate to.

Photo and words by Maingaila Muvundika of @myextralens, whose images comprise of Everyday Lusaka’s fresh set of 10 new 6th Anniversary Postcards!

Each postcard is going for K50, and limited edition signed postcards are going for K100. DM to make your orders!

BALA, INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, 2024 Balas prove a lit

BALA, INDEPENDENCE AVENUE, 2024

Balas prove a little threat to the safety of any pedestrian in their vicinity when they are in motion. You’re constantly worried whether you’ll make it through without your knees getting injured by one one them. For this reason, I had never really spent anytime to really look at them as a fixture of town because I’m often avoiding them for my safety.

However, one afternoon I was in a taxi on Independence Avenue and saw a number of balas chained up. Stationary and unthreatening, leaning against the wall, I was able to take in the beautiful colour they all had.

Photo and words by Maingaila Muvundika of @myextralens, whose images comprise of Everyday Lusaka’s fresh set of 10 new 6th Anniversary Postcards!

K50 for one
K100 for an exclusive signed one
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