Join us on Monday, May 11, 2026 at the Civitella Castle for Presentations by Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi & Amélia Umuhire. We will welcome you with light refreshments at 6:00 PM. Reserve your spot below or tune in to our livestream on Instagram @CivitellaRanieri.
6:00 PM CEST Welcome Cocktail
6:15 PM CEST/12:15 PM EDT Brief Presentations
Option Dzikamai Nyahunzvi is a 2026 Tyburn Foundation Fellow at Civitella. He is a Zimbabwean artist born in Harare in 1992 and raised in Rusape. He began sketching at an early age and has developed a distinctive style that blends printmaking and painting techniques. Nyahunzvi graduated with a Certificate in Visual Arts and Design from the National Gallery School of Visual Arts and Design in association with Harare Polytechnic College in 2015. Since then, Nyahunzvi has exhibited widely, both locally and internationally. He recently opened a solo exhibition “Zvatiri (Who We Are)” at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (2026).
Filmmaker and artist Amélia Umuhire lives in Berlin and Kigali. In 2015, she wrote and directed the award-winning web series Polyglot, which follows the lives of young, deracinated London- and Berlin-based Rwandese artists. Her experimental short film Mugabo was screened at MOCA Los Angeles, the Berlin Biennale, and elsewhere. In 2018, Umuhire produced the Prix Europa-nominated radio feature Vaterland for German radio station Deutschlandfunk Kultur. In 2020, as a Villa Romana Fellow, she adapted the feature into the French Innocent. In 2022, she wrote the sitcom Barrys Barbershop for German channel ZDF. She is currently a staff writer on the Netflix Germany adaptation of the British show Cheaters and is writing her first feature film with Studio Zentral.