Artists

Isaac Iirumva

Iirumva Isaac is a Rwandan contemporary artist whose figurative paintings explore identity, memory, and human connection through everyday life. Drawing from personal experience and observation, his work focuses on relationships, shared spaces, and quiet emotional moments within community life. Using expressive color and gesture, Isaac reveals intimacy in ordinary scenes. His practice reflects contemporary global culture while remaining grounded in personal narrative and human experience.

Isaac Iirumva

AiR Cohort July 2026

For three weeks, last july, eight artists from Senegal, Rwanda, Tunisia, Lebanon, Egypt, Algeria and Morocco shared time, land and attention in the Tunisian countryside at Tilal Utique.

Working mostly in visual art, alongside music, they made the residency a space where image and sound met, listened to one another and moved across their boundaries.

Rooted in the landscape and its rhythms, it proposed slowness as a method and encounter as a form of knowledge, opening shared ground for new ways of seeing, hearing and making.

AiR Cohort July 2026