Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu

Ukhona Ntsali Mlandu is the director of Greatmore Studios in Cape Town and founder and head curator of makwande.republic in the Goshen Village, Eastern Cape.  She is 2021/22 Atlantic Fellow for Racial Equity and was Global Cultural Relations Fellow 2021. 

Her work is interested in artist mobility and mobility justice for artists and cultural goods. Mlandu also has a special interest in the politics of public space and place-making, spatial and gender justice, heritage and memory. All her work is concerned with decoloniality and a black radical feminist position as central to transformation and imagining of justice, repair, care and equity.

She has curated a number of festivals, programmes and public art interventions including the  public art live installation #100AfricanReads.

Mlandu insists on creating work with her children and or finding spaces that are deliberate about acknowledging her role as a mother as an act of survival and resistance against an art world and world of work that invisibilises this aspects of one’s identity and the labour associated with it.