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  1. Profile:Miliswa Ndziba
  2. Education/Internships & Assistantships
  3. Curatorial Projects/Residencies
  4. Conferences/Invited Lectures/Panels & Gatherings/External Examinations
  5. Features & Contributions/Awards & Prizes
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
late - Ritual Gathering and Pilgrimage Co-curator.
SOUTH AFRICA: FEBRUARY 2025 - PRESENT

  • UMCIMBI_LATE - part 3 of the series After Extraction by Dr Mpho Mastipa in collaboration in Chimurenga, The Bartlett School of Architecture - University College London, Johannesburg Institute of Advanced Studies - University of Johannesburg, and The Gathering-Salon. Umcimbi_late was a live broadcast of an inter-generational gathering of Black femmes and non-binary practitioners conceptualised as a ritual of “unburying”. 44 STANLEY, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: JULY 2025 [View...]

WHAT HAS TWO EYES & TOO MANY EARS? (WHTETME LIVING) - Homeware and Object Design Research Studio Co-founder and Curator.
MIDMAR VIEW, HOWICK, SOUTH AFRICA: OCTOBER 2023 - PRESENT

RESIDENCIES

SPREEPARK ART SPACE - Disruptive Nostalgia collective awarded residency at Spreepark Art Space, where the site of the prominent amusement park “Spreepark” serves as both a reference point and a real-time laboratory.
SPREEPARK ART SPACE, BERLIN, GERMANY: APRIL 2025 - JUNE 2025 [View...]

  • GROUP EXHIBITION: TRANSIENT LANDSCAPES - Exhibitor: Belly of the Beast. SPREEPARK ART SPACE, BERLIN, GERMANY: APRIL 2026 - JUNE 2026 [View...]

UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG - Artist in residence in the Bio Art Creative Microbiology Research Co-Lab at The Visual Identities in Art and Design Research Centre (VIAD).
FADA BLDG., UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, BUNTING ROAD, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: 2023 - 2026 [View...]

  • GROUP EXHIBITION: IMMINENT AND EMINENT ECOLOGIES (co-curated by Leora Farber and Brenton Maart) - Exhibitor: Forts of Sand; Passage; Strange Fruit. FADA GALLERY, FADA BLDG., UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, BUNTING ROAD, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 2024 [View...]

  • GROUP EXHIBITION: SYM|BIO|ART (co-curated by Leora Farber and Brenton Maart) - Exhibitor: Ocean in a Box: A Reimagining of the Aesthetics of Demolition through Analogue Modelling. FADA GALLERY, FADA BLDG., UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG,BUNTING ROAD, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: JULY - AUGUST 2023 [View...]

THE LIBRARY OF THINGS WE FORGOT TO REMEMBER - room19isaFactory. Architecture Bureau and Digital Platform awarded the role of librarian at Zimbabwean artist Kudzanai Chiurai’s The Library of Things We Forgot to Remember, where the Lounge(v) installation was exhibited for the duration of the residency.
44 Stanley, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: 2022-2024

  • WITHIN REASON: THE NE51/9 HOME - an installation of the Non-European Housing Typology of 1951 in the Library of Things We Forgot to Remember. 44 STANLEY, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: AUGUST 2024 - PRESENT [View...]

  • GROUP EXHIBITION: DELAY AND ENCOUNTER AND/OR OTHER PROXIMATE UNKNOWNS (curated by NOTHING GETS ORGANISED (NGO), FCA Ghana, and ifa/OTHERNETWORK) - Exhibitor: Lounge(v). FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART BUILDING, W.E.B. DUBOIS CENTRE, FIRST CIRCULAR CRES., ACCRA, GHANA: NOVEMBER 2023 - JANUARY 2024 [View...]

  • LOUNGE(V) - an installation of the NE51 lounge (Non-European Housing Typology of 1951) in the Library of Things We Forgot to Remember. 44 STANLEY, AUCKLAND PARK, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA: SEPTEMBER 2022 - DECEMBER 2022 [View...]