mandhla.

musician. evolving. queer creative. performance artist. visual artist.

Artist Biography

Mandhla. is a 22 year old trans-feminine gender non-comforming body born and raised in Zimbabwe, Africa. As a current resident between Berlin and Cologne, she brings a blend of experimental R&B and Soul music intertwined with visual projections and performative dancing. Her music speaks of the daily trials that Trans*, enby and femme* immigrant bodies experience daily with love, identity, sex and acceptance.

A strong lover of fashion, the art of voguing and music, she promises to bring to you an experience that takes you to a world of beauty and divine epiphanies through fierce queer representation and black femme* power.

As a political and social activist, she is a part of the BIPoC collective, DEMASK, which strives in creating safer spaces for QT (Queer, Trans) BIPoC in Cologne and surrounding areas. She is also a design student, at Hoschule Rhein Waal University of Applied Sciences and is a visual media artist.

Play music below:

waking up (carboot soul mix)

Watch the video for ‘Waking Up‘ here: VIDEO

Watch ‘WUSS 3000’ Performance at Münchner Kammerspiele:

Click here to watch performance at WUSS 3000

Performance Portfolio

2018

Kaleo Sansaa ‘Purple Moon EP’ PreRelease Party, at Kunsthaus Rhenania (Cologne, Germany) May 2018

Cafe Dudel Cafe, (Cologne, Germany) September 2018

Soul Trip Poetry Vol III, at Open Air Kino, (Cologne, Germany) September 2018

House of Living Colours Presents: Turn Up and Trill, at ACUD MACHT AU (Berlin, Germany) December 2018

TransFormations Film Festival, at Werkstadtt der Kulturen (Berlin, Germany) December 2018

2019

One World Poetry at Familiengarten Stadtteilzentrum des Kotti (Berlin, Germany) April 2019
Trans March Pride After Party at Mothers and Daughters (Brussels, Belgium) May 2019
Shakedown Brussels at Sunset Club (Brussels, Belgium) May 2019
WHOLE Festival, (Ferropolis, Germany) June, 2019
Kabale Feminist Sommerfest, (Gottingen, Germany) July, 2019
QT (Queer and Trans) POC (People of Colour) Pride Party, (Hamburg, Germany), July, 2019
Queer and Now: From Stonewall to Utopia (WUSS3000), at Munchener Kammerspiele (Munich, Germany) July, 2019
Melt Festival, (Ferropolis, Germany) July, 2019
Artlake Festival, (L60, Germany) August 2019
Norrebro Pride After-Party, (Copenhagen, Denmark) August, 2019
ISUSU: Pan African Festival at be’kech, (Berlin, Germany) August, 2019
IN*Vision Festival, August, 2019
DEMASK Festival, (Cologne, Germany) October 2019
Queer Visible, (Munich, Germany) October 2019
Trans Pride Cologne at Amaro Kher, (Cologne, Germany) October 2019
EMPOWER AR II Festival – A Sense of Solidarity at Kunstfabrik. (Berlin, Germany) November 2019
Anti-Discrimination Day at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, (Berlin, Germany) November, 2019
Dissappearing Berlin: Fragments of the Impossible at Green Mango, (Berlin, Germany) November 2019