Khanyisile Mbongwa

12th Liverpool Biennial, UK
Curator

Khanyisile Mbongwa is an independent curator, award-winning artist and sociologist that is chief curator for the 12th Liverpool Biennial (2023). Previously, she served as chief curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale 2020. Mbongwa is the curator of Puncture Points, founding member and curator of Twenty Journey and former executive director of Handspring Trust Puppets. She is one of the founding members of the arts collective Gugulective, Vasiki Creative Citizens and WOC poetry collective Rioters In Session. Other recent projects include: Process as Resistance, Resilience & Regeneration – a group exhibition co-curated with Julia Haarmann honoring a decade of CAT Cologne (2020), Athi-Patra Ruga’s solo at Norval Foundation titled iiNyanka Zonyaka at the Lunar Songbook (2020) and a group exhibition titled History’s Footnote: On Love & Freedom at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, Netherlands (2021).

Khanyisile Mbongwa was invited for a curatorial research trip in 2022.

Khanyisile Mbongwa. Photo: Tatyana Levana.