Ba Taonga Julia Kaunda-Kaseka

Ba Taonga Julia Kaunda-Kaseka is the founding director of Modzi Arts and a multidisciplinary curator. Her work involves concert and exhibition producing, arts administration, curating, teaching and advocacy in Zambia and the region. She studied a short program in Art Management from Berlin University of Arts but has a large amount of hands-on experience working over 10 years in the arts especially around Zambia and African context. Her focus is placing more value on art and cultural understanding, her approach is rooted in the Zambian philosophy of Ulemu! Respect and regard. She is interested in designing spaces to learn, work and live around the artistic process.

Ba Taonga is a mentor, curator and designer of spaces for artists and art audiences to come together and find other ways of engaging with ancient objects and traditions within contemporary art. As the Artistic Director of Modzi Arts, she has curated exhibitions within Modzi Arts Gallery, Livingstone National Gallery, Lusaka Museum, Moto Moto Museum, FNB Art Joburg, Congo Biennale, Johannesburg Art Gallery and M.Bassy Hamburg.