Ba Taonga Julia Kaunda-Kaseka is a multidisciplinary curator, mentor and designer of social spaces living in Lusaka, Zambia. Her work includes concert and exhibition producing, arts administration, curating, teaching and advocacy in Zambia and the wider region. As the founder of Modzi Arts, she has worked with numerous prominent cultural institutions in South and West Africa. Through the organisation, she advocates for the value of art and cultural understanding via an approach rooted in the Zambian philosophy of Ulemu: respect and regard. The spaces she creates bring artists and art audiences together, in quest of new, alternative ways of engaging with ancient objects and traditions within contemporary art.
