Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a researcher, writer, and curator currently operating between Harare, Zimbabwe, and Makhanda, South Africa. Her research explores notions of care in artistic practice, national archival records, social justice, histories of cities, topographies of knowledge production, and sites of transition. She was Curator for Education and Public Programming at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe from 2017-2020, and Assistant Curator from 2016-2017, where she co-curated Moulding a Nation: The History of the Ceramics Collection of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe (2018–2019), Dis(colour)ed Margins (2017), Culture in Communities (2016), and Jazzified: Expressions of Protest (2016). In addition, she curated The Unseen: Creatures of Myth and Legend, an exhibition of artworks by Isaac Kalambata at the Lusaka National Museum in 2018. As visiting curator at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg in 2019 she produced the publication Curating Johannesburg: rest.less, under siege/in transition. She recently curated the exhibition If you think about it, just midding in the meantime or Progression for KKNK virtual Gallery. She is currently working on two ongoing projects, Harare/Insomnia and The Oxymoronic Tea Party. Muchemwa is a 2017 fellow of the ITP at the British Museum, and the Arts of Africa and the Global Souths program at Rhodes University, South Africa. She is a collaborator the Zimbabwe Pavilion at the International Art Exhibition in Venice. She is a founding member of the Practice Theory Collective.
Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa

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