A celebration of ten years of Honours in curatorship graduates

The Honours in Curatorship course at UCT, run by the CCA and Michaelis School of Fine Art in close collaboration with Iziko Museums of South Africa, has been growing for the past 10 years. The course started in 2013 with the generous support of the Mellon Foundation and has produced more than 120 graduates. The accolades of past students who have gone on to contribute to the curatorial field are celebrated here through their various engagements.

Graduates from the debut year of Curatorship at the CCA have had milestone achievements in their careers; Kabelo Malatsie has been appointed the new Director of the Kunsthalle Bern, April 2022, and was the Director of Visual Art South Africa, 2018, having been a participant in the Independent Curators International (ICI) Curatorial Intensive in Accra, 2017. Ernestine White-Mifetu  has been appointed the Curator of African Art at Brooklyn Museum, New York, March 2022, and previously served as Director and Chief Curator of the William Humphreys Art Gallery and the Kimberley Museum in the Northern Cape, South Africa, 2019-2020 - her artwork was also included into the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 2018. Khanyisile Mbongwa, one of the founding members of the collective Gugulective,  is the Curator for the Liverpool Biennale in 2023 and was the Chief Curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale in 2020 - she has been an adjunct Curator with Norval Foundation and her artwork is exhibited extensively both locally and internationally. 

The full text to this article provides links and achievements of graduates from 2013 to 2021 and is available to view here.