KING NGABO

Overview

Institutions & projects

Beyond the studio, an ongoing effort to build room for Rwandan painting — spaces to make it, show it, and remember through it.

Institution · 2019 — present · Kigali, Rwanda

Museum Kigali

A permanent house for contemporary Rwandan painting, built around the belief that a nation remembers through its images as much as its archives.

Studio · 2016 — present · Nyamirambo, Kigali

Atelier E500

The working studio and residency where every canvas begins — five hundred square metres of light, pigment, and the young painters who pass through it.

Project · 2021 — present · National

Art for Rwanda — Memoria

A long-form project turning private grief and public history into a shared visual language of remembrance and repair.

Exhibition · Annual · Kigali

Annuelle Kigali

The city's yearly survey of new work, staged each September — a room for the country's emerging painters to be seen together.