E.N. Mirembe

Curator, writer and researcher E.N. Mirembe (b. 1997, Uganda) is currently based at the Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK) in Frankfurt. Their practice attends to literary and visual cultures through a black studies lens, drawing on work by Black writers and artists as experimental ground for conversation, critical fabulation, play, theory and method. Together with Rosie Olang’ Odhiambo, they have co-curated in transit under another sky, (2024–ongoing) with iterations in Kampala and Nairobi (2024); Njabala: An Elegy, Makerere Art Gallery, Kampala (2024); and Ange-Frédéric Koffi's solo exhibition at the limit of dream, Nosbaum Reding, Brussels (2023). They have participated in residencies and fellowships with LUX, London; ARAK Collection, Doha; Bag Factory Artists' Studios, Johannesburg; 32° East, Kampala; and Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town. They have served as Managing Editor of Writivism and published in Artforum, Africa Is a Country and African Arguments. Mirembe studied history at the University of the Western Cape.