Events
Nambowa Malua (Nambzee) from18. June to 5. July in Lucerne!
How Shared Is the Ground?
This exhibition explores how selected African ceremonial traditions use movement, music and touch within ritual contexts to cultivate balance, regulate the nervous system, and restore communal harmony.
Through painting and mixed media, the artist engages with ritual practices of grounding, connctedness and embodied experience.
The works reflect ceremonial traditionis as living systems of knowledge shaped by community, environment, and climate. Balance is understood not as an individual state but as something practided and shared collectivelly.
Duratoin of the exhibition: 18.06.26 bis 05.07.26
OPENING: 18.06.26 6pm to 9pm
LIVE PAINTING: 26.06.26 7pm to 9pm
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday: 12 to 6pm
Saturday on appointment
Artist Statement
Nambowa Malua is a Namibian painter and live performance artist whose work explores the human form as a vessel for memory, ritual, spirit, and transformation.
Through faces, bodies, and symbolic imagery, he creates paintings that move between the intimate and the cosmic, the physical and the unseen. His practice is rooted in his cultural background and shaped by diverse global influences, weaving together elements of ancestral veneration, ceremonial traditions, healing practices, trance, divination, and retro-afrofuturism.
Drawn to the expressive power of gesture, movement, and presence, Malua approaches painting as both a visual and performative act. Whether working in the studio or creating live paintings before an audience, he seeks to capture not only outward appearance, but also the energy and emotion beneath the surface. His works often function as portals into spiritual reflection, exploring identity, mythology, and humanity’s relationship to the cosmos.
Inspired by dance, organic forms, Bantu cosmologies, and Namibian cultural heritage, Malua blends realistic abstraction with esoteric symbolism to create immersive visual experiences.
Through his practice, he aims to evoke wonder, introspection, and a deeper connection between the seen and unseen worlds.
