Curatorial Intensive Addis Ababa 2014

Born of Kabuye Benedict family, Balimunsi Philip is the curator of Uganda National Cultural Centre and the Uganda National Gallery known as Nommo gallery.

Helen Carey is Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin, Ireland.

Makeda Damtew is a curator and assistant lecturer at Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Arts and Design.

Mohamed Hussein is a freelance artist, curator and designer from Baghdad.

Mihret Kebede is an artist/poet, who graduated from Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design in painting with distinction in 2007 and has earned her MA in arts from the same school in 2016.

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist and writer based in Northamptonshire, UK.

Anna Kućma is a Kampala-based independent Polish curator, writer, and art project manager.

Georgina Maxim is an artist, curator, initiator of the collective Village Unhu in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied African Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. 

Jillian Schultz, originally from Chicago, recently relocated to Los Angeles after five years in Beijing, China.

Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

Zoma Wallace is a curator, arts administrator, and experimental artist living and working in her hometown of Washington, DC.

Renaud Proch is Independent Curators International (ICI)’s Executive & Artistic Director.

María del Carmen Carrión is Project Manager for the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Naima J. Keith joined the California African American Museum (CAAM) in 2016 to guide the curatorial and education departments as well as marketing and communications.

Meskerem Assegued is an anthropologist, curator, and writer. In 2002, she founded ZCAC (Zoma Contemporary Art Center), an artist residency located in Addis Ababa and Harla, a small village south of Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.

Riason Naidoo is an independent curator based in South Africa.

Konjit Seyoum (b. 1963 Addis Ababa) is a freelance conference interpreter who was trained at the School of Interpretation and Translation at the University of Trieste, Italy.

Raphael Chikukwa is the Director of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where he served as Chief Curator of Contemporary Art and Deputy Director from 2010 to 2020.

Jimmy Ogonga is an artist and producer, working intermittently between art production and curatorial practice.

Elvira Dyangani Ose is the director of the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). 

Tracey Rose is an artist, currently living and working in Johannesburg, South Africa.