Gabi Ngcobo

Gabi Ngcobo is a South African curator, artist and educator.[1] Currently she is the Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP).

Gabi Ngcobo, 2012
Gabi Ngcobo
Born
Umlazi, Durban
NationalitySouth Africa
CitizenshipSouth African
EducationArt History (Bachelor's degree), Curatorial Studies (Master's degree)
Alma materUniversity of Durban-Westville, Bard College

Early life and education

Gabi Ngcobo was born in Umlazi, a district of Durban belonging to today's province KwaZulu-Natal.[2]

Ngcobo studied Art History at the University of Durban-Westville. After her BA she has worked at the Iziko South African National Gallery and the Cape Africa Platform in Cape Town, where she co-curated the Cape 07 Biennale in 2007 together with Jonathan Garnham.[3] In 2010, she completed a Master in Curatorial Studies at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in New York.[4]

Career

Since the early 2000s, Gabi Ngcobo has been involved in collaborative, artistic and educational projects.[5] Together with Dineo Seshee Bopape and Sinethemba Twalo she was the founder of NGO - Nothing Gets Organised.[1] NGO focuses on process and self-organisation that take place outside of predefined structures and contexts. In 2010 she established, along with other artists, curators, and writers, the Center for Historical Reenactments (CHR).[6][7]. The CHR responds and questions how historical legacies impact and resonate within contemporary art.[8] The CHR was team-led with Kemang Wa-Lehulere and Donna Kukama, among others, and was part of the 11th Biennale de Lyon.[9]

Ngcobo was co-curator of the 32nd São Paulo Biennial in 2016, which was presented at the Ciccillo Matarazzo Pavilion in São Paulo.[10] In 2018 she curated the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art in Berlin together with Nomaduma Rosa Masilela, Serubiri Moses, Thiago de Paula Souza and Yvette Mutumba.[11] With Dr. Yvette Mutumba she also co-curated the exhibition A Labour of Love in 2015 as part of her residency at the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt am Main.

Between 2011 and 2020 she was a lecturer at the Wits University School of Arts, in Johannesburg. Since 2021 she is the Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP).[12]

Publications
  • Gabi Ngcobo, Yvette Mutumba (ed.) A LABOUR OF LOVE. exhibition catalogue, Weltkulturen Museum, German and English, Kerber Art Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7356-0140-7.[13]
  • Gabi Ngcobo Don't panic, English, Jacana Media, 2012, ISBN 978-1-9201-9637-0.

References
  1. Selvin, Alex Greenberger,Claire (2021-05-20). "25 Curators Shaping the Art World Today". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-08-31.
  2. Blignaut, Charl. "Meet Gabi Ngcobo, one of the most powerful curators in the world right now". W24. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  3. "Cape 07". Artlink Magazine. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  4. "Gabi Ngcobo". CCS Bard. Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  5. Peter Eckersall, Bertie Ferdman (2021). Curating Dramaturgies - How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts. New York: Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 9780367711993.
  6. Smith, Terry E. (2012). Thinking Contemporary Curating - Issue 1 of ICI perspectives in curating. the University of California: Independent Curators International. p. 156. ISBN 9780916365868.
  7. "Center for Historical Reenactments". Center for Historical Reenactments. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  8. "Gabi Ngcobo". www.rawmaterialcompany.org. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  9. "Artistes de l'exposition internationale". Biennale de Lyon (in French). Retrieved 2021-06-12.
  10. "32nd São Paulo Biennial, 2016". universes.art. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  11. "We Don't Need Another Hero - Biennales - Berlin Biennale". www.berlinbiennale.de. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
  12. "Gabi Ngcobo Officially Appointed Curatorial Director of Javett-UP". Contemporary And (in German). Retrieved 2021-06-03.
  13. "Weltkulturenmuseum - Publications". www.weltkulturenmuseum.de. Retrieved 2021-05-17.
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