by Richard Mudariki Richard Mudariki (2025), 19 October, oil on canvas and painted wood (artist collection - IMAGE: RESERVIOUR) As I work in my studio on my latest body of work, news arrives of bombs falling again in the Middle East. The contrast between the quiet concentration of the studio and the violence unfolding elsewhere in the world is impossible to ignore. It reminds me why, in 2011, I began a body of work with my first solo exhibition in Cape Town titled My Reality

By Richard Mudariki Richard Mudariki (2017) WORLD CUP, oil on canvas and painted wood (in Private Collection) I have followed the Venice Biennale with particular interest since 2011, when Zimbabwe presented its first national pavilion. That moment marked not only a milestone for the country’s cultural diplomacy but also sharpened my awareness of the Biennale’s role within the global art ecosystem. The official opening of the 61st edition of La Biennale di Venezia in Italy wi

.....we observed a market that was neither collapsing nor exploding, but reorganising itself - slowing down after a decade of acceleration and searching for clarity.