E.N. Mirembe

E.N. Mirembe is a curator and writer. Their practice attends to literary and visual cultures through a black studies lens. They have edited and published three books including, The Geography of Fixed Things: Eastern African Artists from the Arak Collection (2025).They curated 'In Transit Under Another Sky' at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum as part of the 2025 Coventry Biennial, Sonic Commons (Nairobi, 2026), The Geography of Fixed Things (Shenzhen, 2025), Njabala: An Elegy (Kampala, 2024), and at the limit of dream (Brussels, 2023). Their writing is published in Camera Austria, Artforum, Contemporary And, Africa is a Country, African Arguments, and others.

At MORPHO, Mirembe will focus on a research and writing project that examines how artistic and curatorial practices generate forms of relation beyond fixed ideas of citizenship, belonging, and participation. They are particularly interested in how transnational networks, self-organised initiatives, and collective cultural infrastructures rehearse democracy through collaboration, shared labour, and dialogue. Mirembe will combine concentrated writing time with conversations and studio visits in Antwerp and Brussels, treating the local cultural ecology as a site of inquiry. The residency will culminate in a public presentation of texts-in-progress and reflections emerging from this research.

Mirembe studied History at the University of the Western Cape. They have held residencies and fellowships with the Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK in Frankfurt, G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, LUX Moving Image in London, ARAK Art Collection in Doha, Bag Factory Artists' Studios in Johannesburg, 32 Degrees East in Kampala, and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town. They were previously the Managing Editor of Writivism where they produced and curated the Writivism festival for four years.