Noorderlicht has announced the appointment of Musoke Nalwoga as co-curator for the period 2026–2027. Nalwoga will play a key role within the artistic programme and will be jointly responsible for three closely interconnected trajectories: What Knots Knot Knots, the pre-biennial Thinking Hands (2026), and the biennial PLAY (2027).
Musoke Nalwoga (Uganda, 1994) is a curator, writer, and researcher with a strong focus on photography and other forms of lens-based media. Her practice operates at the intersection of embodied knowledge, making, archiving, and the political dimensions of image production, with recurring attention to technology, labour, and materiality. Nalwoga is the founder and artistic director of MOTORMOND in Amsterdam, a platform for critical pan-diasporic culture. She has also worked as an independent curator with institutions including Kunstverein Braunschweig, Sonsbeek 20–24, Framer Framed, OSCAM, Stevenson Gallery, and the Cobra Museum of Modern Art. Through long-term research projects such as The Black Gaze Upon Nature and Knowing Cotton Otherwise, she investigates how knowledge is produced and transmitted beyond dominant technological and institutional systems.
Within What Knots Knot Knots, Thinking Hands, and PLAY, Nalwoga will work closely with artistic director Roosje Klap, artists, and the Noorderlicht team on exhibitions and public programmes in which craft, play, and experimentation take centre stage.
Roosje Klap, Director of Noorderlicht:
“Musoke brings a rare combination of sharpness, energy, and original creativity. She works in genuine dialogue with international artists, leaves room for autonomy, and has a remarkable ability to make complex ideas both clear and generous. I am incredibly excited about what this means for Noorderlicht: her arrival strengthens our international ambitions and our belief in lens-based media as a space where friction, imagination, and care can come together.”
With this appointment, Noorderlicht deepens its long-standing research into craft, embodied knowledge, and play as critical counterforces within an increasingly automated image culture.
Noorderlicht explores visual culture as technology: a way of seeing, measuring and creating meaning in a world in transition. noorderlicht.com
