Aïda Muluneh | Maggie Otieno Resonance Exhibition

Maggie Otieno and Aïda Muluneh now on view at Fondazione Marchesani, Venice, through 10 July 2026, as part of Resonance, a major interdisciplinary exhibition presented by Vanderbilt University Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice during the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, with artistic direction by María Magdalena Campos-Pons and Kamaal Malak.

Curated by Grace Aneiza Ali and Selene Wendt, Resonance considers the lingering frequencies of memory, embodiment, sound, and ancestral knowledge, what remains, reverberates, and survives across time and geography.

Featuring works by Carrie Mae Weems, Frank Bowling, Ming Smith, Christopher Cozier, Olu Oguibe, Hung Liu, Georges Adéagbo, and Deborah Willis, amongst others, the exhibition convenes a powerful intergenerational dialogue across photography, painting, sculpture, installation, sound, and text.

Within this wider curatorial framework, the practices of Aïda Muluneh and Maggie Otieno unfold as distinct yet interconnected meditations on visibility, material memory, spirituality, and transformation. Through image, surface, and gesture, both artists engage resonance not simply as metaphor, but as a mode of relation: between body and history, silence and testimony, Africa and its diasporic imaginaries.

Set within the intimate architecture of a Venetian palazzetto, Resonance becomes a space of attunement and collective reflection — a chorus of artistic voices responding to the urgencies of the present while imagining forms of repair, communion, and continuity.