Euridice Zaituna Kala
Artist and teacher
The Kunsthalle Münster is showing the first solo exhibition of Mozambican artist Euridice Zaituna Kala in a German institution from October 2026 to January 2027. Kala's artistic work emerges from a profound deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction of cultural and historical metamorphoses. With her works, she invites us to engage with the historical and cultural transformations of (personal and collective) memory. Particular attention is paid to the complex relations-hip between colonialism and post-colonialism as well as post-colonial remembrance. With her artistic research and creations, she has developed an impressive strategy to engage with the long history of erasure and silencing and to trace invisible subjectivities and communities.
The exhibition brings together the voices of numerous struggles-ecological, feminist, indigenous-and connects them with the history of Kala and the places where her exhibition can be seen. It is a dialog between the interior and the exterior, objective and subjective elements, stories and images, a vibrant, sensual and luminous homage to the forces of life. Kala investigates the ambivalence of historical narratives and pursues a constant rewriting of history, filling in its gaps. Her works take the form of installations, performances, paintings, objects and books, in which she combines her research with personal memories to give voice to the unheard and forgotten.
After a first version of the exhibition was shown at La Criée in Rennes from February to April 2025, where the artist entered into a dialogue with the river, the glass and stone architecture, the people and forgotten plants of the city, the project will travel to La Loge in Brussels next year and finally to the Kunsthalle Münster. For the presentation in Münster, Kala will develop the exhibition further and produce several new works, with the Kunsthalle becoming a stage for discussions. The artistic search for traces opens up a space in which visitors can pursue forgotten stories, both individually and collectively, as well as the question of why they were forgotten and what this forgetting (consciously or unconsciously) entails.