Maxim born in Zimbabwe and living and working in Harare is known for both working as artist and curator with over a decade of arts management and curatorial practice. Maxim together with Masamvu and Nyandoro co-founded Village Unhu in 2012, an artist collective space in Harare that has been providing studio spaces, exhibitions, workshops and residency programs for artists – young and professional. Maxim worked at Gallery Delta, her first experience during and after her studies at Chinhoyi University of Technology. As an artist, Maxim’s work combines weaving, stitch work and the utilization of found textiles creating objects that evade definition. Maxim reveals and repairs scars, sewing with the utmost sensitivity. Maxim describes her work as ‘the memory of’ the owners of these clothes, evoking the past and all these stories.
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Maxim was a nominee of the Henrike Grohs Award (Goethe Institute, Abidjan) 2018, She has exhibited extensively with works being collected regionally (Gallery Delta, National Gallery of Zimbabwe) and internationally (Mojo Gallery in Dubai, Embassy of Foreign Artists in Geneva with exhibitions at Sulger Buell Gallery in London, Goethe Institute in Salvador de Bahia).

Recently Maxim studied African Verbal and Visual Arts – Languages, Curation and Arts (Masters) at the University of Bayreuth in Germany and displayed a body of work in the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the 58th Biennale Di Venezia 2019. This year, 2021, she exhibits at the Musée Bargoin (Clermont-Ferrand) and at the FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine (Bordeaux). Maxim is currently working in collaboration with 31 Project of France.