Frank Malaba
Multidisciplinary Artist • Storyteller • Photographer • Creative Facilitator
Oslo, Norway
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Frank Malaba is a multidisciplinary artist, storyteller, photographer, and creative facilitator working between Oslo, Norway and Cape Town, South Africa. His work moves fluidly across theatre, performance, poetry, and natural light photography, guided by a central question: How does the body remember, and what stories does it insist on carrying?
Drawing from Southern African oral traditions, queer lived experience, and a deep commitment to dignity and presence, Frank creates narrative spaces where memory becomes a form of knowledge. His solo works, including Stories of My Bones and The Chaos of Belonging, have toured internationally, inviting audiences into intimate encounters with ancestry, identity, and the quiet rituals that shape us.
As a photographer, Frank documents everyday rituals and marginalised lives with tenderness and clarity. His 2025 exhibition Rituals opened in Cape Town to critical acclaim, and his ongoing project I Met a Mermaid explores African water spirituality, homelessness, and the ocean as a site of survival and myth.
He is also the founder and curator of Uncovered: Stories in Oslo (Avdekket: Fortellinger i Oslo), a live storytelling platform centred on true, lived narratives. His facilitation practice blends embodiment, listening, and community building, creating spaces where people can speak from the truth of their lived experience.
Across all mediums, Frank works from the belief that storytelling is not performance, it is presence, witness, and a return to the body as archive.
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Where Are Our Stories Held? A Queer Workshop on Story, Self, and Community
What does it mean to belong to a community, and still feel unseen within it?
This participatory workshop invites members of the queer community to slow down and reconnect with themselves and each other through story. Led by multidisciplinary artist and storyteller Frank Malaba, the session creates a grounded and welcoming space for reflection, listening, and shared experience.
Through guided prompts, body-based reflection, and optional sharing, participants explore the stories they carry, how these stories live in the body, and how they shape our sense of belonging within queer spaces. The focus is not on performance, but on presence.
By moving from self-awareness into shared witnessing, the workshop offers a way of encountering each other beyond labels, expectations, or social groupings, and invites a more honest experience of community.
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