Artists

samate — **Samate Mulungo** was born in 1939, in the Xipamanine borough of Lourenço Marques, today Maputo.
He is a self taught artist and started painting in 1952. He worked during many years with a maritime navigation firm , linked to the Ports and Railways of Mozambique, before dedicating himself since 1972 exclusively to painting.

He held his first solo exhibition in 1959 in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo. In 1991 he was invited to be part of the “ Heritage 1991” Jury of the national Gallery of Zimbabwe.
Exhibitions

**1962** - First solo exhibition, Lourenço Marques

**1991** - 1997 - he held four individual exhibitions in Maputo

He participated in a great number of collective exhibitions in Mozambique and abroad, namely in Chicago (USA), Germany, England, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Nigeria and India

In 1997 he participated in Lisbon in the exhibition “ The 120 best artists in the World”

Samate obtained the First Prize in painting of the Railways of Mozambique in 1962

sansao cossa — Born in 1946, in Magude, province of Maputo.
Starts his artistic career in 1972. Is dedicated to oil painting, drawing and aqurela. He was a member of the Directorate of the Nucleo de Arte. In 1988, was the major organizer of the exhibition 10th Anniversary of People's Development Bank.

With Mankew executed a mural in the Palace of the Presidency in Maputo.

Exhibitions

**1974** - Casa Amarela, Lourenço Marques

**1985** - National Society of Fine Arts, Lisbon

**1987** - Capital Gallery, Leiria, Portugal

**1988** - Art Gallery Horizon Broadcasting, Maputo

**1991** - Capital Gallery, Leiria, Portugal

**1993** - Brasilian Studies Center - Maputo

Collective Exhibitions

**1973** and **1974** - Gallery Chissano, Lourenço Marques

**1977** - FACIM, Maputo

**1978** - Foundation of the Organization for African Unity, Havana, Museo Nacional de Arte, Maputo

**1982** - Center for Art (IV Frelimo Congress) - Maputo, Small Libombos, Berlin, Lisbon, Moscow, Harare, Rome

**1987** - Shop Gallery, Maputo

**1988** - People's Development Bank (10th Anniversary) - Maputo

**1989** - Center for Art (V Frelimo Congress) - Maputo, Organization of Journalists - Maputo, Shop Gallery - Maputo

**1991** - Banco de Fomento e Exterior, Maputo, Museo Nacional de Arte, Maputo

**1992** - National Museum of Art - Maputo, Cooperative Tree - Porto, Afritique - Maputo, Center for Brazilian Studies (30 years Eduardo Mondlane University), Circle - Maputo

**1993** - National Museum of Art (Biennale TDM), Circle (National Conference on Culture)

**1994** - Circle - Maputo

**1995** - Circle - His work is represented at the National Art Museum - Mozambique, Maria fontinhas Museum - Portugal and in private collections in various countries.

Eugénio Saranga was born in 1973 in Maputo.

He started his artistic career with design in 1985.

Since 1995, he has exhibitions in Mozambique and abroad.

Selected exhibitions:

1995 – Collective Exhibition –Núcleo de Arte

“ A Figura Humana nos PALOP’s”, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes de Lisboa

1996 - “ O Regresso”, Centro de Estudos Brasileiros, Maputo

1998 - “ Anual de Desenho”, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

2005 - Bienal TDM, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo, First Prize in painting.

Solo exhibition “ Murmúrio do Vento”, Galeria ARC-16 Faro, Portugal

2008 - Collective exhibition, Galeria ARC- 16 Faro, Portugal

Zaragoza Exhibition, Spain

Sérgio Muchabje was born in Maputo in 1978 in Maputo.

In 1997, he concluded the medium level ceramics course at the National School for Visual Arts (ENAV);

In 2008 he obtained his bachelor´s degree in Design teaching from the Pedagogical University (UP);

Since 1995, he has participated in a number of exhibitions and was distinguished with the First Prize in Ceramics at the TDM Bienal/99. He obtained a Honourable Mention at MUSART/99 and in 2001 the FUNDAC Prize for Revelation;

His work is represented in public and private collections in Mozambique and abroad.

Born in Lourenço Marques, today Maputo, in 1956, he now lives and works in Uppsala/Sweden and Mozambique.

Sérgio Santimano follows the tradition of photojournalism with a social commitment. Ricardo Rangel and Kok Nam are his references at the beginning of his career when he produced and published relevant work for the national as well as international press, covering war, famine and political issues for the Mozambican News Agency (AIM).

In 1988 with his Swedish wife he moved to Sweden where he worked and studied documentary photography.

After the end of the Mozambican civil war in 1992 he started as freelancer, documenting the consequences of war and the reconstruction of the country.

Since 1997 Santimano has worked in Northern Mozambique, which resulted in several series of work such as “Cabo Delgado - A Photographic History of Africa” and “Terra incognita,” on Niassa.

Exposições/Exhibitions

1992 - KonstMuseum, Uppsala/ Sweden ; KonstMuseum, Copenhagen/Denmark

1993 -Caminhos, A.M.F. (Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia), Maputo

1994 - Caminhos, Piramal Gallery/NCPA, Bombay, India

1995 - Índia intima-A.M.F.( Associação Moçambicana de fotografia), Maputo

1996 - Encontros de Fotografia, Lingua franca, Coimbra, Portugal

1997 - Moçambique/Índia Arquivo Fotográfico, Lisbon, Portugal

Muanakazi Casa da Cultura, Beira, Mozambique
Cabo Delgado-A photographic History of Africa, Frölunda Kulturhus, Goteborg

1998 - Cabo Delgado - A photographic History of Africa ; ,Third African Photography Festival, Bamako, Mali

1999 - Cabo Delgado - A photographic History of Africa, A.M.F., Maputo

Afrique’s Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Mocamique-Índia, Fundação Oriente, Pangim/Goa, India
AT GRAY’S INN, Britain Mozambique Society, London, England

2000 - Fotografias Sérgio Santimano, Bildbyrå Phoenix, Stockholm

Fotografias Sérgio Santimano, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Stockholm
Cheias 2000, Helga Trefaldighets, Uppsala, Sweden
Cabo Delgado - A photographic History of Africa Frölunda kulturhus, Göteborg, Sweden
Fotografias Sérgio Santimano, Internationella Biennal EVENTA, Uppsala
Villes, capitales d’Afrique, Lille, France

2001 - Cabo Delgado-A photographic History of Africa, Barnängen världsbibliotek;Folkens Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

2002 - Iluminando Vidas, Basel/Lugano, Switzerland

Photo festa I, Fotofestival internacional de Moçambique, Maputo

2004 - FOCAL, Ilha de Moçambique

Iluminando Vidas, CulturGest, Porto, Portugal
FOCAL, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Verità (Ascona),
Saudade, L’Espoir, Reunion Island
Photo Festa II, Maputo, Mozambique

2005 - Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London / Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris / Mori Art Museum, Tokyo

Iluminando Vidas, Bensuan Museum and Library of Photography Museum Africa, Johannesburg /João Ferreira Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
FOCAL, Theater Rigiblick, Zürich, Switzerland
LABO PHOTO, 6e. Rencontres africaines de la photographie, Bamako, Mali
Às Portas do Mundo, Palácio D. Manuel, Évora Portugal

2006 - Terra Incógnita, Niassa, Moçambique, Frölunda kulturhus, Göteborg,

Finis, Galerie Stephan Witschi, Zürich, Switzerland
Focal, Galeria Silo, Porto, Portugal
Publication of the book Terra Incógnita, M’siro, ISBN 91-631-9244-6
Terra incógnita, Exposition and book presentation, Lichinga, Mozambique
Terra Incógnita, Photo Festa III, Maputo, Mozambique
Afrika Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Participation in 10th Fotofestival, Bienne, Switzerland

2007 - Terra Incógnita, book presentation,University of Zurich, Switzerland

Fotografier Sérgio Santimano (1992-2005), Kulturcentrum Mankell, Sveg., Sweden
Aus sicht Afrika, Iwalewa-Haus, Afrikazentrum der Universität Bayreuth
Afrikanisches Kulturfestival Forchheim, Germany
In the City and Beyond, The African Photography, 7th edition, Bamako, Mali
Moçambique: a Ilha a preto e cor, Sérgio Santimano e Luís Abelard, Inst. Camoes

2008 - Wasser-lust und Wassers-not, Ifa-Galerie, Institut fur Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., Stuttgart/Berlin, Deutschland

Fotografia como denúncia, Centro Stefano Franscini, Monte Veritá , Ascona
Terra incógnita, Auditório Conde Ferreira, Sesimbra,: Galeria P4, Lisboa, Portugal
Moçambique: a Ilha a preto e cor, Fábrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon Portugal
Public photographic ornamentation, Vängue Skolas, Uppsala, Sweden

2009 -The encounters of Bamako, Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, South Africa

Art Fair, Beijing, China
Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona CCCB, Spain

2010 - Cannes Film festival Femmes Africaines Photographies 13 May 2010

ABF “Photography from Mozambique ABF salong 22 Maj-30 July 2010

2012 – Public photographic ornamentation , Karolinska Hospital , Stockholm

Shikhani — Born in 1934, in the area of Muvesha, Marracuene District.
Son of farmers, he was a sherpherd until he was 16 years old. He started to dedicate himself to sculpture at the Núcleo de Arte under the leadership of the Portuguese sculptor Lobo Silva Pinto, Sculptor at the Industrial School Mouzinho de Albuquerque.
From 1970 he started dedicating himself also to paiting.

He had his first exhibition in 1968, in Matalana. In 1973 he received a scholarship of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, where he has an exhibi as well.
He moved to Beira from 1976-1999. There and until 1979 he taught at the Auditorium-Gallery. In 1982 he received a 6 months scholarship for the USSR.
He expressed different forms of suffering through wooden sculpture and painting. In Beira he has a number of murals in low relief. His work is represented at the national Art Museum in Maputo as well as in private collections in Mozambique and abroad.
A sua sua primeira exposição foi em 1968, em Matalana. Em 1973 recebe uma bolsa da Fundação Caloute Gulbenkian para Lisboa, onde realizou uma exposição individual.
De 1976 até 1998 viveu na Beira. Aí, e até 1979 orienta aulas de Desenho no Auditório-Galeria. Em 1982 recebe uma bolsa de estudos de 6 meses para USSR.
Exprime as várias formas de sofrimento através da escultura em madeira e pintura. Tem vários murais em baixo relevo na Beira. A sua obra está representada no Museu Nacional de Arte e em colecções particulares dentro e fora do país.
**Exhibitions:**

**1968** - Collective Exhibitions in Maralana and Lourenço Marques

**1969** - Exhibitions in Lourenço Marques and Joao Belo (Xai Xai)

**1970** - Exhibitions in Inhambane and Beira

**1971** - Exhibitions in Nampula and Beira

**1972** - Exhibition in Beira and collective exhibition in California, USA (Black Art)

**1973** - Exhibitions in Lourenço Marques and Lisbon. Collective Exhibition in Portugal

**1974** - Exhibition in Lourenço Marques; Collective Exhibition in Lusaka

**1976** - Exhibition in Beira

**1980** - Exhibition in Beira

**1981** - Itinerant Collective Exhibition in Maputo, Berlin, Luanda, Moscow and Sofia

**1983** - Collective Exhibition in Lisbon

**1985** - Individual in Beira

**1986** - Individual Exhibition in Beira. With the painter Carlos Beirão in Harare

**1987** - Collective Exhibitions in Cuba, Great Britain, Italy, Nigeria and Zimbabwe

**1988** - Exhibitions in Maputo and Lusaka. Collective Exhibition in Washington

**1989** - Collective exhibition in Lisbon

**1990** - Collective exhibition in Zimbabwe

**1992** - Two exhibitions in Lisbon

**1994** - Exhibitions in Maputo and Zimbabwe

**1995** - Three exhibitions in Maputo

**1996** - Two Exhibitons and one collective exhibtion in Lisbon

**1997** - Exhibition and collective exhibition in Maputo

**2000** - Collective exhibition em Musart

**2001** - Exhibtion in Instituto de Camões

**2007** - Collective exhibtions in Naciomal Art Museum and Portugal

He died on 31 December, 2010

Silvia Bragança — Born in Goa (India) in 1937, lives between Goa, Portugal and Mozambique.
She grew up in Goa where she received her first lessons in oil painting. She obtained her Bachelor Degree in Painting at the Superior School of Fine Arts of Lisbon (1966); Degree in Pedagogical Sciences at the Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon. She dedicated herself to teaching and research in culture, in Portugal, Mozambique and Goa, where she produced a number of works, including Art Books for students and art teachers.

She is included in the Contemporary Dictionary of Portuguese Art. She participated in many workshops in Portugal and Mozambique.
Her experience in three continents: Asia, her place of birth; Europe, the academic achievement in the Artistic Area; Africa, liberty associated with suffering through the loss of her most loved one and the war, leads her to portray themes related to peace, oppression, liberty and to aesthetically reflect the values of Humanity. Artist, poet and teacher, her painting, neo-figurative art in mixed media, reveals an excellent mixture of integrated poetry and is characterized by the use of metal, lace and rents and a visual characteristic which symbolizes its oriental origin. Today, his research is developing the image designed by computer and research on the connection of art to mathematics that is his second passion.
Exhibitions

**1971-2000 -** More than 12 exhibitions in Lourenço Marques, Beira, Luanda, Tomar, Lisbon, Porto, Goa

**1969-2004 -** More than 50 collective exhibitions in Portugal, Mozambique, Romania, USA, Russia, Sweden, Angola, Goa

**1979** - and 1985 Invited to exhibit at the MiróAward Biennale, Barcelona

**1993 -** Retrospective exhibition of 100 works at the Brazilian Studies Centre, Mozambique

**2000 -** Exhibition at the Orient Foundation in Goa

**2000/03 -** “ Women of the World” ( EUA/USA: New York , Maryland;Canada); Stockholm

**2005 -** Collective Exhibition in honour of the victims of the Iraq war, Goa

**2007 -** Collective Exhibition, Brazilian Studies Centre for the victims of the explosion of the arms depot on 22 March, where 100 people lost their lives

**2007 -** Exhibition “ Dream for the world” Camões Institute - Portuguese Cultural Centre

**2008** - Collective Exhibition Muvart and Camões Institute- Mozambican Association of Photography

**2008 -** Collective Exhibition on the occasion of Mozambican Women´s Day- Brazilian Studies Centre

**Carlos Simões Ferreira** was born in 1959. He completed a medium level course in Electrotechnics at the Industrial Institute of Maputo. Between 1981-1987 he worked as technical assistant at the Graphics Industry- Ministry of Information.
He fell in love with sculpture through contacts with Master Chissano and exhibitions at the Gallery “ Paraíso Africano” .

A self taught artist, he started his artistic career in 1977. As of 1987 he dedicates himself fully to the art of sculpture. He participated in a variety of collective exhibitions in Mozambique and abroad, namely South Africa, Angola, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Portugal and Sweden.
In Mozambique he is represented in the National Art Museum, private collections and in public and private institutions. Since 1987 he is an active member of the Núcleo de Arte and was member of the Directive Board from 2005-2007.
Exhibitions

**1987** - Horizonte Arte Difusão

**1992** - ”Resurrection of Nature” Casa da Cultura doAlto Maé, Maputo

**2000 -** “Confraternização” - Instituto Camões - Portuguese Cultural Centre, Maputo

Collective exhibitions

**1978/86** - National Art Museum, FACIM, ONJ, OMM, Núcleo de Arte, Horizonte Arte Difusão, Salão de Escultores-Maputo, Angola and Portugal

**1988** - Art in Business, FACIM-Maputo

**1991/92** - Annual Exhibition in the National Art Museum, 3rd Art Exhibition - Banco de Fomento e Exterior , Workshop Ujamaaa II, Brasilian Studies Centre, Collective Exhibition at Kaya Kwanga- Maputo

**1993** - National Art Museum, ONJ, Mozambican Association of Photography, Contraponto, Biennale TDM- Maputo

**1994** - 20th Anniversary of 25th April - Portuguese Embassy - Maputo

**1995** - Biennale TDM ’95, Associação Portuguesa de Moçamique

**1996** - 1st Exhibition “Happy Art” , Mozambican Association of Photography; The city and waste (ADECOMA), Fundação Friedrich Ebert - Maputo

**1997** - 2nd Exhibition “Happy Art” - Associação Moçambicana de Fotografia, Musart ’97,Swiss Cooperation, Workshop Identities ( Cultural Exchange Mozambique / Portugal). Workshop Transforming Arms in Hoes - Maputo, Sandton City Gallery- Johannesburg-South Africa

**1998** - Workshop Transforming Arms in Hoes, Núcleo de Arte-Maputo, Workshop Ottawa International Conference on Anti-personnel Mines, Biennale TDM ’99, Musart ’99, Artists against Poverty - Maputo

**2000** - Expo-Hannover - Germany, Fine Arts Festival- Namibia

**2001** - Contemplation (Ciro,Simoes), Workshop Porto Faculty of Fine Arts- Portugal

**2003** - Musart , CEB, Workshop Gallery Chissano

**2004** - BCI-Fomento (FACIM)

**2005** - Mamba Ancestral - Núcleo de Arte

**2007** - Exhibition in support of flood victims - Gabinete 1ª Dama with Nucleo de Arte-BCI, Instituto Camoes, 10 years BCI-Fomento

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