The Artist Embassy
Artists
Prince Mawuli Nusenu
🇬🇭 Ghanaian-born artist Prince Mawuli Nusenu blends painting with African print fabrics to create vibrant portraits celebrating cultural identity and storytelling. His work has featured in exhibitions across South Africa, including Alluring Things (Franschhoek) and Fabric of Society (Cape Town), and has been acquired for Nelson Mandela’s 30-year celebration.
Katleho Mosia
🇿🇦 South African-born artist Katleho Mosia blends oil paint, cowhide, and film to explore cultural identity, displacement, and spiritual awakening in a postcolonial context. Her work draws on Basotho heritage and contemporary life, and has been shown at DAC on Dorp Artists Residency (Cape Town), Standard Bank Joy of Jazz (Johannesburg), and the Michaelis Graduate Show (Cape Town).
Emmanuel Ngunga
🇨🇩 Congolese-born artist, Emmanuel Ngunga is a visual artist whose practice explores the issues of identity, memory and cultural heritage, with particular attention to a Congolese perspective.
Based in Cape Town and working between Cape Town and Kinshasa, he develops an approach influenced by travel, the circulation of experiences and the encounter between different cultural contexts.
His work is located between realism and hyperrealism, in a search for visual precision and narrative depth. He builds images that question memory, identity and the traces left by individual and collective experiences.
Childhood occupies an essential place in his artistic reflection, envisaged as a space of transition where identity is under construction, still crossed by visible and invisible influences. It becomes a key to understanding the dynamics of self-formation and inheritance.
Through his practice, Emmanuel Ngunga seeks to create strong and sensitive images, where the presence of the subjects opens a space for reflection on memory, experience and the links between past and present.