Nomusa Makhubu
Nomusa Makhubu (BFA, MA, PGDHE, PhD, Rhodes University) is an Associate Professor of art history at the Universityv of Cape Town and an artist. She received the ABSA L’Atelier Gerard Sekoto Award (2006) and the Prix du Studio National des Arts Contemporain, Le Fresnoy (2014). She was the 1st Runner-Up in the DST Women in Science Awards, 2017. Makhubu was a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies and was an African Studies Association (ASA) Presidential Fellow in 2016. In 2017, Makhubu she received a Mandela-Mellon fellowship at Harvard University. She co-edited a Third Text Special Issue: ‘The Art of Change’ (2013) and later co-curated with Nkule Mabaso the international exhibition, Fantastic, in 2015. Makhubu is a member of the South African Young Academy of Science (SAYAS) and was the chairperson of Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2016-18. Her current research focuses on African popular culture, photography, interventionism, live art and socially-engaged art.
Amogelang Maledu
Amogelang Maledu is an independent curator and researcher. She graduated with a BA Degree in Anthropology and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Pretoria; and received an Honours Degree (First Class) in Curatorship from the University of Cape Town (UCT). She sits as a committee member for UCT’s Works of Art Committee, which is responsible for the art curation and acquisitions of the university. Currently she is a sessional lecturer and convenor at UCT’s Art History Department. In 2019 she was a curatorial fellow for the public arts festival, Infecting the City, hosted by UCT’s Institute for Creative Arts (ICA). Maledu also interned at Iziko South African National Gallery and served as the curatorial assistant for the South African Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Her current research interests and curatorial practises are interdisciplinary: focusing on curatorship from a practitioning perspective; which includes curating, teaching, researching and writing.