RMB Latitude announces the participating curators for the 2024 CuratorLab mentorship Program. Hailing from Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, Namibia, Zambia, Mozambique, and South Africa, these ten aspiring curators will actively engage in professional guidance and one-on-one mentorship from industry-leading curators.
The curators are; Adeyosola Adeniran (Nigeria), Baoagi Keitshokile (Botswana), Bayron Van Wyk (Namibia), Giancarlo LaGuerta (Botswana), Kamogelo Sebopa (South Africa), Kukua Kweku-Badu (Ghana), Ng’onga Silupya (Zambia), Onyịnye Alheri (Mozambique), Raelee Seymour-Brown (South Africa) and Tlotlo Lobelo (South Africa).
The programme runs from 23 January – 10 April 2024.
Adeyosola Adeniran (Nigeria)
Adeyosola Adeniran, an artist and curator based in Lagos, currently serves as Curatorial Assistant at the African Artists’ Foundation and LagosPhoto Festival. Her curatorial practice is based on close collaboration with artists to realise and/or present their best work.
Baoagi Keitshokile (Botswana)
Baoagi Keitshokile is an artist, born and raised in the village of Serowe, Botswana. He is currently serving as a creative hub manager and operating a studio at Khama III Memorial Museum in his home village, where he is also a volunteer and assists in curating exhibitions. He’s also actively involved as an adjudicator for Botswana’s constituency arts competitions and National Art festival, championing and nurturing emerging talents.
Bayron Van Wyk (Namibia)
Bayron Van Wyk, writer, researcher and cultural worker, has been working at the Museums Association of Namibia (MAN) where he has been exposed to the intricacies surrounding Namibian collections, including cultural objects and artworks. He aims to draw on his academic expertise in both Anthropology and History to develop innovative curatorial approaches.
Giancarlo LaGuerta (Botswana)
Giancarlo LaGuerta is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and curator, born and raised in Gaborone, Botswana. His work (curatorship and art practice) attempts to destigmatize conversations around politics, masculinity, culture and heritage in the context of Botswana.
Kamogelo Sebopa (South Africa)
Kamogelo Sebopa is a Johannesburg based emerging artist and curator. Sebopa recently obtained her degree in a BA Fine Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand. Sebopa is currently interested in drawing and printmaking and furthering her curatorial practice. She was recently shortlisted and won the CCAC student competition for printmaking.
Kukua Kweku-Badu (Ghana)
Kukua Kweku-Badu is an independent curator, and poet, exploring decolonial and queer alternate realities and global contemporary art. Kweku-Badu works collaboratively to shed light on post-colonial struggles, prioritizing the narratives of queer/trans-Indigenous individuals across the Global South, the diaspora, and beyond. Their curatorial approach focuses on reimagining ways of presenting and engaging with art, as well as exploration of the multifaceted dimensions of identity.
Ng’onga Silupya (Zambia)
Ng’onga Silupya (b. 1996) is a Cultural Practitioner, Arts Administrator and Curator from Lusaka, Zambia. She is an educator who focuses on using art as a means of raising awareness on environmental, cultural and social political issues. Her research interests lie on the role of Cultural Heritage in contemporary art and exploring ways that young artists, communities and institutions are engaging with the legacy of the past. She associates her work with narratives, prejudices, superstitious practices, natural phenomena and physical constructions connected with various ethnic groups in Zambia and across the globe.
Onyịnye Alheri (Mozambique)
Onyịnye Alheri is a multidisciplinary artist and curator born in Lagos, Nigeria and living in Mozambique. At the core of Alheri’s practice is an exploration into the depths of consciousness and existence. Alheri is a member of Aguas Migrantes, a collective composed of interdisciplinary artists across continents.
Raelee Seymour-Brown (South Africa)
Raelee is a multimedia artist, designer and curator from Johannesburg, South Africa. With an aesthetic focus on novelty, irreverence and the unseen, Seymour-Brown’s work divulges the potency of what is often considered mundane, exploring the intricacies and complexities of the pop culture zeitgeist through a variety of mediums including digital illustration, writing, ceramic works, fashion and design.
Tlotlo Lobelo (South Africa)
Born in South Africa in 1992, Tlotlo Lobelo completed a Bachelor of Technology in Fine and Applied Arts, majoring in Art History, Glass blowing, Figure Drawing, and Communication. To complement his Arts Degree Tlotlo enrolled in the Pretoria Art Museum Art Education program that certified him as an Art Education assistant and Art Facilitator.
In his curatorial practice, he has had the liberty of curating a number of exhibitions across South Africa – from FNB Art Joburg Art Fair to the Absa Gallery’s KKNK (Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees). In his essential function as a curator, Tlotlo aims to work with multidisciplinary works from artists of the global south who present through movement, sound, and visual communication their most earnest expressions of art.
About CuratorLab
CuratorLab is an online mentorship programme focused on fostering professional practice skills for emerging curators on the continent. We have selected ten emerging curators, offering them mentorship and professional practice training while they plan and conceptualise an exhibition, centred on artists from their community. The curators will be offered a permanent exhibitor profile on Latitudes, with a comprehensive marketing campaign, commission on sales and stipend.