Have You Met MAHA
Living Room Session presents Have You Met MAHA—the fourth edition of Have You Met, a series offering a deeper connection to artists, platforms, and projects by exploring their work, inspirations, and stories. Each session invites you to not only meet the featured artist or project but also connect with others in the room. Have You Met is rooted in the belief that every encounter – whether with a person, story, or experience – can lead to new insights and deeper connections.
This edition is dedicated to meeting MAHA – a multi-disciplinary artist, zine publisher, musician, and model based in The Netherlands. Known for her unapologetic presence and punk energy, MAHA reclaims space through sound, words, and style. Whether through her music as a punk artist or as the founder of Mahazine, a self-published DIY zine that carves out space for activism, stories from the diaspora, and intersectionality, she uses her creativity as a tool of resistance against oppression, prejudice, and labels—and a celebration of self-expression and community.
Have You Met MAHA unfolds as an afternoon of sound, conversation, play, and creation. Maha will take the stage for an intimate live performance – channeling the fierce energy of her debut single No Profit and offering a glimpse into her new work. Together with moderator and curator Shaquille Shaniqua Joy, we’ll dive into her creative universe: how music, writing, and fashion collide to tell stories of identity, injustice, and liberation.
The session also invites you to participate. Through a MAHAZINE-inspired bingo and more, we’ll collectively explore themes central to her practice, transforming the room into a space of shared reflection.
Come meet MAHA, experience her art in motion, and take part in an afternoon to feel, think, make, and connect.
MAHA
MAHA is a Sudanese multi-disciplinary artist, musician, journalist, model, and founder of Mahazine, a DIY zine highlighting activism, diaspora stories, and intersectional perspectives. Based in the Netherlands, she uses creativity as a tool of resistance against oppression and prejudice, while celebrating self-expression and community.
Her music, inspired by X-Ray Spex, Sinéad O’Connor, Amyl & The Sniffers, and Grace Jones, merges post-punk energy with social critique. In 2025, she released her debut single “No Profit” (co-produced by Loveth Besamoh), a fiery protest against greed-driven conflict, emphasizing humanity over money.
On stage or through her zine, MAHA tackles injustice, tokenism, and discrimination, offering new perspectives and extending the messages in her music. She has performed at festivals like Le Guess Who?, Grauzone, Best Kept Secret, and supported Pussy Riot and Maria Anouk. Her work is a voice, a protest, and an invitation to challenge the world.
Lees meerShaquille Shaniqua Joy
Shaquille Shaniqua Joy is a moderator and cultural curator whose work centers on storytelling. Through conversations, programs, and exhibitions, she explores how lived experience and subjectivity can function as vital forms of knowledge. Her approach emphasizes dialogue over extraction – favoring conversation over interview to create environments where complexity, nuance, and vulnerability can emerge. She collaborates with institutions, museums, platforms, and brands to co-create formats.
Shaquille’s excitement for people and their fascinations is the base of her practice, which inspires her to create various formats including her ongoing series Living Room Session, inviting audiences to engage deeply as artists reflect on chosen themes through various mediums. Shaquille’s work is driven by a belief that subjectivity and embodied experience expand the ways we understand ourselves and each other. Her practice seeks not only to showcase art and ideas, but to create encounters where listening, resonance, and presence become central methods of inquiry. Website: shaquillejoy.com
Lees meerWould you like to attend this program, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to info@felixmeritis.nl, we can work something out.
