This panel discussion with Gabi Ngcobo and Neo Muyanga (moderated by Lena van der Hoven and Elize Mazadiego), kicks off a 2-day workshop at Kunsthalle Bern and University of Bern addressing critical institutional practices in the visual arts and field of music theater with a focus on Europe as a site of active transformation in relation to global discourses.
Special guests are two key thinkers and practitioners from South Africa working in/with European cultural institutions: Curator Gabi Ngcobo (currently director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and composer, musician & installation artist Neo Muyanga (currently: impresario at The Centre for the Less Good Idea, South Africa).
Together with Ngcobo and Muyanga the workshop investigates how artists, curators, directors engage with, subvert, and reconfigure institutional frameworks—museums, opera houses, biennales, festivals—through strategies that destabilize entrenched hierarchies of knowledge, authorship, and cultural authority.
