Gabi Ngcobo

Gabi Ngcobo is an independent curator, writer and artist from Durban, South Africa. She has worked as Assistant Curator at the South African National Gallery and curated Cape Africa Platform's CAPE 07 bi-annual exhibition where she also worked as Head of Research and was instrumental in initiating Cape's Young Curator's Programme. Other exhibitions include Olvida quen soy/ Erase me from who I am co-curated with Elvira Dyangani Ose, Khwezi Gule and Tracy Murinik for CAAM, Canary Islands, Las Palmas 2006, Titled/Untitled, a curatorial collaboration with Cape Town collective Gugulective and Scratching the Surface Vol.1 a manje-manje projects initiative at the AVA Gallery, Cape Town. Recently she co-curated rope-a-dope: to win a losing war with Sohrab Mohebbi at Cabinet, New York city, Second Coming, a curatorial collaboration featuring Nastio Mosquito (Angola) and Thando Mama (SA) at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Ngcobo curated Just How Cold Was It?, a one night event about the impact of the Cold War in southern-Africa featuring Nastio Mosquito, Cedric Nunn (SA) and the Pan African Space Station (SA) in New York City. She is the founding member of 3rd Eye Vision collective of artists operating in Durban between 2000 and 2006. Recently she co-founded the "Center for Historical Reenactment."

Her writings have been featured in various publications and catalogues including Art South Africa, Art Throb and n.paradoxa.

She recently completed a masters program at the Centre for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York.