Namata Birungi is a transdisciplinary artist whose work focuses on the quiet structures that support life. Using fiber-based materials like cardboard, raffia, voile, and cotton, she explores the tension between softness and structure through mark-making techniques such as stitching, thread drawing, and laser-cutting.
Inspired by mycelial networks, her art embraces fragility as strength and slowness as a radical form of presence in a fast-paced world. Her installations, prints, and soft forms reflect on labor, survival, memory, and the body, favoring what bends and endures over monumentality.
Namata is also drawn to socially engaged art that emerges through communal spaces rooted in dialogue, healing, shared experience, and quiet collective reflection. She holds an MFA from the University of Bergen (2025) and studied Art and Industrial Design at Kyambogo University, Uganda.
I work with overlooked, discarded materials cardboard, raffia, voile that have already lived other lives. I cut, stitch, suspend, and let them sag or spread gently across space, creating forms that are both deliberate and collapsing, precise yet yielding. My work is shaped by what doesn’t usually get seen, I am interested in what is essential versus what is visible ,the quiet effort it takes to stay, the weight that comes with being present, the small gestures that hold things together. Inspired by how mycelium grows underneath, across, without glory ,I build forms that lean, collapse, float, and insist.
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Bergen Norway
Let’s Make Something Together
Kampala, Uganda.
Bergen, Norway.
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