Gabi Ngcobo

Gabi Ngcobo has been engaged in collaborative artistic, curatorial, and educational projects in South Africa and on an international scope, since the early 2000s. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised and Center for Historical Reenactments, 2010–14. Recently, Ngcobo curated the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2018, co-curated the 32nd Bienal de São Paulo, 2016. In Cape Town she has worked at the Iziko South African National Gallery and at the Cape Africa Platform where she co-curated the Cape07 Biennale in 2007. Since 2011 she has been teaching at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. She currently lives and works in Johannesburg.

2010 Author of the Visible, where art leaves its own field and becomes visible as part of something else, Sternberg Press, 2011

2012 Visible Roundtable at the Center for Historical Reenactments, Johannesburg

2019 Visible Award Preselection Committee 

2020 Author of the Collectively Annotated Bibliography. On Artistic Practices in the expanded field of Art 

2011 Proposed projects for the Visible Award 

• NON-NON Collective – A-Zola Budd City Dictionary (2011)
• Nástio Mosquito – Santa Claus is going to become an immigrant (2011)