Gabi Ngcobo (ZA)

Gabi Ngcobo is an artist, educator, curator and curatorial director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) 2021-present. Since the early 2000s Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope. Recent curatorial projects include Handle with Care (2021) and All in a Day’s Eye: The Politics of Innocence in the Javett Family Collection (2019), both at the Javett Art Centre- University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), Mating Birds Vol.2 at the KZNSA Gallery, Durban (2019). In 2018 Ngcobo curatorially directed the 10th Berlin Biennale titled We don’t need another hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal titled Incenteza Viva (2016). She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised (2016-) and the Center for Historical Reenactments (2010–14).

Ngcobo’s writings have been published in various publications including the reader Uneven Bodies,  Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), The Stronger We Become the catalogue of the South African Pavillion, Venice (2019), We Are Many: Art, the Political and Multiple Truths, Verbier Art Summit (2019) and Texte Zur Kunst September 2017.

Photo: Javett-UP.