Bernice Mulenga
Bernice Mulenga is a British-Congolese photographer with a distinct aptitude for archiving, documenting and interrogating the world around them. Their work centres around the search for intimacy. Primarily looking at themselves, the Black queer global/local community and the experiences found within them. This can be found in their ongoing photo series #friendsonfilm. An archive that has been growing since 2015 and continues to shape with time. Their work is an exploration of reoccurring themes surrounding movement, identity, sexuality, grief, darkness, bonds and kin.
Solo and Group Exhibitions
2023
Pictures Of Us, Gathering, London, Curated by Lewis Dalton Gilbert
Open Eye Gallery, Homotopia Festival, Liverpool
The Makings of You, Modern Art Oxford as part of Photo Oxford
Beautiful Experiments, Curated by Pelumi Odubanjo & Katy Barron at Photo50 London Art Fair
2022
Children Of The Diaspora, Pacheanne Anderson Gallery at 1:54 Art Fair, 2022
We Get To Choose Our Families, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2022
The Reading Room Selected prints as display for Prim Black, 2022
MOVE/002, Curated by Fynn Studio, 2022
Imagining Otherwise, The WHO Gallery, 2022
Between Me And You, HOME, 2022
2021
The Rebel Dykes Art & Archive Show Group show curated by Atalanta Kernick & Kat Hudson at Space Station Sixty Five
2020
Blacklisted: An Indefinite Revolution, curated by Pacheanne Anderson at Christies. 2020
2019
Dancing in Peckham, curated by Photoworks & Jamila Prowse at Peckham 24 festival
2018
Afropunk London Installation of #friendsonfilm and polaroid pop up portraits
Afropunk New York Installation of #friendsofilm curated by BBZ
A La Maison, An interactive workshop with Joy Yamusangie as part of I'm Home exhibition curated by Ronan Mckenzie at Blank 100
Hear Our Voices Documenting London Living – A Photographic Showcase by Gal Dem X House of Vans