Love Ssega

Love Ssega is a musician, producer and performing artist of Ugandan heritage, creating work that blurs the lines of civic engagement, understanding, activism and hope.

As a singer he has performed the world over on large stages from Glastonbury to Tokyo, whilst his self-produced music and compositions have premiered across BBC Radio, on Radio 1, Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music.

As a director-performer, Ssega’s multi-arts works have been commissioned by the National Gallery, Royal Shakespeare Company, Serpentine and Whitechapel Gallery amongst others, whilst his visual art has been exhibited internationally at MoMA PS1 and MIT Museum.

Justice and climate activism weaves through Ssega’s work and he was an official host of the UN COP26 session on the role of culture in climate activism. He is also the founder of South London’s acclaimed arts-focussed, Black-led Clean Air movement LIVE + BREATHE.

Ssega has a long association with the Southbank Centre across a breadth of artistic areas, notably as the Philharmonia Orchestra’s Artist in Residence for 2022-23, and as a featured co-writer for our Imagine a Story project, as chosen by lead author Sita Bramachari. He has also appeared in our Hayward Gallery, as one of the portrait subjects of Ackroyd & Harvey’s ‘Living Portraits’ commission, part of our 2023 exhibition, Dear Earth.