Charlene Komuntale, Threads in the Furnace, 2025, Digital fabric print, Beads, threads, satin, mesh, pastels, measuring tape, 110x80cm, ©Charlene Komuntale, Courtesy of Afriart Gallery and the Artist
Our Story.
who we are
Silhouette Art Foundation, a registered Kampala-based non-profit founded by Daudi Karungi, an art in Africa catalyst. The Foundation is dedicated to fostering critical thought, knowledge, and infrastructure-building within the African art ecosystem. Silhouette seeks to shape a sustainable and self-defined cultural future for the continent.
Why we exist
Africa’s artistic narratives have too often been fragmented, undervalued, or mediated through external lenses. Silhouette Art Foundation exists to shift this balance by placing African and Global South voices at the center. Our purpose is to collect and preserve knowledge, to encourage unlearning of systems that no longer serve us, and to use memory and lived experience as building blocks for sustainable art systems with real value and purpose.
How we work
At the heart of our work is knowledge collection, storage, and sharing. We nurture this through focused conversations and think tanks, through publishing, mobility support, and the creation of accessible archives. By enabling movement across geographies, fostering critical exchange, and ensuring knowledge circulates, we create pathways for ideas to grow.
For us, knowledge is not static — it is a living resource that strengthens practice, deepens thought, and sustains the ecosystem.
Where we act
Our work begins in Africa and extends across the Global South. Within these geographies, we cultivate connections, exchange perspectives, and strengthen cultural infrastructures that are often overlooked. We believe the future of art depends on attentive memory, meaningful dialogue, and ecosystems built to endure — healthy, relevant, and self-defined.
