When Ba Taonga Julia Kaunda-Kaseka launched Modzi Arts in Lusaka in 2016, the curator and designer had a clear vision: to create a space for exhibitions, performances and events that uplifted Zambia’s artistic community, with a focus on women and young people. In 2019, Kaunda-Kaseka opened the Modzi Arts gallery; originally a non-profit space, it now functions as a commercial gallery promoting underrepresented artists. Modzi Arts also offers a suite of residency programmes – not just for artists, but also musicians and DJs, tying to its founding of the Zamrock Museum, which aims to ‘resurrect and celebrate’ the musical genre which emerged in Zambia in the 1960s as a blend of traditional African music, rock, blues and funk. Prominent Zambian writer Mwinji Siame, reflecting on her own residency at Modzi in The Republic, considers that the gallery ‘plays an integral role in attending to the material needs of [Zambian] artists’. Kaunda-Kaseka has also curated exhibitions at the Livingstone National Gallery, Lusaka Museum and the Moto Moto Museum.