YUNOMI | Jo­sé­phi­ne Sagna

Joséphine Sagna is a German-Senegalese artist whose paintings explore identity, visibility, perception, and self-determination. Her figurative works often centre on BIPoC women, whose bodies become sites of presence, resistance, and diversity. Sagna combines traditional painting with visual elements of contemporary digital culture, working with bold colours, typography, and multi-layered compositions.

As part of “YUNOMI – Living Water. Living Culture.” she is leaving her artistic mark on the mobile water treatment plant – live at the Heiligengeistfeld. Her work thus becomes part of a growing work of art that began in Höchstädt, continued in Hamburg, and will later be completed at the “Anno’s One Fine Day Art Centre” in Kibera, Nairobi.

YUNOMI is an initiative by FUTURE FEMALE AFRICA, Viva con Agua, the Loni und Josef Grünbeck-Stiftung (“Loni and Josef Grünbeck Foundation”), and Anno’s One Fine Day. Together, they bring together water, art, culture, and social infrastructure, and through YUNOMI, they are creating a prototype of how partnerships can become living infrastructure.