ArtistInFocus @graynyahangare
“Hatikanganwe asi tinopora” (“we do not forget, but we heal”) is Grace Nyahangare’s latest exploration of vulnerability, resilience, and self-discovery. Through layered canvases that blend printmaking, photography, and paint, she transforms personal experiences—motherhood, societal pressures, and gendered expectations—into a visual dialogue that balances discomfort with beauty.
Using vivid color and rhythmic patterns, Nyahangare invites reflection on trust, healing, and the complexities of navigating contemporary African life. Each work carries a narrative of emotional honesty, asserting her voice in conversations about identity, agency, and cultural memory.
Presented by @firstfloorgalleryharare
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Grace Nyahangare (b. 1996, Harare, Zimbabwe) lives and works in Harare. Nyahangare is a painter whose practice is rooted in printmaking and photography—disciplines that shape both the technical and conceptual dimensions of her work. She is represented by @firstfloorgalleryharare
Her dreamlike, surreal canvases emerge through layered metamorphoses: beginning with observation and photography, evolving into monotype processes, and ultimately resolving on canvas, where paint and printer’s ink converge to evoke a sense of hybridity, poignancy, and otherworldliness.
Nyahangare’s formative years living and working in the United Arab Emirates in her early twenties significantly informed both her aesthetic language and her evolving sense of self—as an artist, a woman, and now a young mother. Themes of detachment, reflection, and recomposition recur throughout her practice, articulating an ongoing search for wholeness within shifting cultural, emotional, and relational landscapes.
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Grace Nyahangare
Kukurukura hunge wapotswa (I lived to tell the tale), 2026
Monoprint and oil on canvas
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Mukadzi Pa Vakadzi (a woman among women)
Oil and Monotype on Canvas
2026
Mother of One exhibition still up @firstfloorgalleryharare
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This week we opened my second Solo Exhibition (Mother of One) where I share my experience as a healed mother unapologetically!
Thankful to @firstfloorgalleryharare for bringing my vision to life
@artoflerodni 📸
@luna_manatsa the inspiration
Above all Thank you God for everything!!!
The Exhibition is now open for viewing 🥂
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Thursday 19 February 6-9pm
First Floor Gallery Harare x Cable Depot Sofia present
Mazino (Tough Love)
Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude | Grace Nyahangare | Amanda Shingirai Mushate | Again Chokuwamba
Harare - Sofia Gallery Exchange Part One
In Zimbabwe, where notwithstanding limited access to international quality art education, art materials,a gallery system and acquisitive institutions – in short a robust industry – a growing ecosystem of important art practitioners has been evolving for decades. Claiming little credit or attention, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude has emerged as one of the most nuanced and powerful educators for Gen Z painters in Harare and beyond. The three young artists in this exhibition are major emerging talents in Zimbabwe, who have been mentored by Nyaude at the early critical stages of their practice evolution. The generosity of spirit and insight into the essence of the artmaking process required to engender this flourishing, speak volumes to Nyaude’s power as an educator, someone who is able to catalyse talent and to underwrite the future of Zimbabwean painting in the most magnanimous way.
Text by Valerie Kabov. Read more on cable-depot.com.
19 February – 12 March 2026
Friday - Saturday 3-7pm
or by prior appointment
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