Kabelo Malatsie

Kabelo is a curator and organizer living in Cape Town, where she works as initiator and director of Medupi Publishing. The house, practices in book and thought formations energized by the many worlds we inhabit. She was director of Kunsthalle Bern (2022-2024); director of Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA) (2018-2019) and worked as an Associate at Stevenson gallery Cape Town and Johannesburg (2010-2016). Her ongoing curatorial research project explores the exhibitionary mode as unlikely starting points that place incongruous practices together, to instigate other ways of making and reading the world we inhabit through a project titled Punya. She co-curated the exhibition Deliberation on Discursive Justice for the Yokohama Triennale (Japan 2020), participated in In the Open or in Stealth for Barcelona’s MACBA (Spain 2018), and curated solo exhibitions across various institutions in South Africa for artists such as Nicholas Hlobo, Moshekwa Langa and Sabelo Mlangeni.