Kamogelo Walaza

Kamogelo Walaza is a multidisciplinary artist who obtained a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts in the field of Applied Drama and Theatre Studies (with distinction) as well as a BA Honours in Drama Therapy from the University of the Witwatersrand. In addition, she attended the University of Johannesburg where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Corporate Communications, an Honours degree in Communication Studies as well as an Honours degree in Public Management and Governance. She is currently a Masters candidate in the field of Masters of Arts in Fine Arts( MAFA), where she conducts autoethnographic research. Her main pedagogies from this research are intersectionality, identity politics , Performance Art and memory. She was awarded the Marshall Kander Drama for Life award for outstanding research in HIV/AIDS education through Applied Drama and Theatre. She recently produced an autoethnographic research paper, which received a distinction, that launched an inquiry into the “memories in her blood”. In 2021, she was an Assistant Curator for three exhibitions at Oliewenhuis Art Museum from their permanent art collection. She also curated Arts Education workshops at Oliewenhuis Art Museum and was involved in further projects with ArtBank SA. She later joined Studio Nxumalo as an Assistant Curator and Projects Manager, where she assisted with curation at FNB Art Joburg, Turbine Art Fair and Aspire Art, to name a few. She is currently a recipient of the Young Curator incubator , mentored by Nomusa Makhubu which is in collaboration with the Goethe Institute. She won a residency with bag factory award for Young /unframed Curator 2023/2024. Her interests as a Curator is Social Practice and Process led Creative Practice and is currently practicing as an Independent Curator. Some of her most recent performance pieces were part of the OUSUN exhibition in collaboration with Wits School of the Arts as well as the Wits School of the Arts Art Matters: Inherited Histories and Politics of Mapping Postgraduate Student Conference. She is a skilled emerging curator, arts education facilitator, dedicated writer and ethnographer.