Gabi Ngcobo

Gabi Ngcobo

Director, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Biography:

Gabi Ngcobo is the Director of Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Between 2020 and 2023 she was Curatorial Director at the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) where she organized the exhibitions Handle with Care (2021) and Scenorama (2022) as well solo presentations and new commissions by Oscar Murillo, Nolan Oswald Dennis, and Luana Vitra. In 2022 Ngcobo curated The Show is Over at the South London Gallery and co-curated (with Murillo) The ‘t’ is Silent at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes in Deurle, Belgium. Before joining Javett-UP, Ngcobo worked on independent curatorial projects, collaborated with various institutions in different parts of the world, and for seven years lectured at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg. In 2018, she curated the 10th Berlin Biennale titled We Don’t Need Another Hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennial 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).