Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa

Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a researcher, writer and curator residing in Harare. She is currently the Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Her research interests focus on notions of care in artistic practice, national archival records, social justice, histories of cities, and topographies of knowledge production. She has 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 a visiting curator at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg in 2019, she produced the publication curating Johannesburg: rest.less, under siege/in transition. Her recent curatorial work includes If you think about it, just midding in the meantime or Progression for the KKNK virtual Gallery (2021), I did not leave a sign? for the Pavilion of Zimbabwe at La Biennale di Venezia (2022), An Im/perfect Balance for Ayanda Fine Art (2022), A Book That Cannot Be Read; An exhibition of works by Alison Baker (2022 – 2023), Love and Other Acts of Will (2022), Only What is Known Can be Revealed (2024) and Ode to Grief and Renewal for LoCA (2024). She is working on three ongoing projects: Feed Me (2023 -), Harare/Insomnia (2021 - ) and The Oxymoronic Tea Party (2021 - ). 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 for Independent Curators International and a founding member of the Practice Theory Collective.