Bonolo Kavula was born in 1992 in Kimberley, South Africa, and currently lives and works in Cape Town, South Africa. She obtained a BA(FA) from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2014, majoring in Printmaking. Kavula received the 2014 Katrine Harries Print Cabinet Award at the University of Cape Town and she was a founding member of the Cape Town based artist collective, Iqhiya. In 2021 Kavula won the Norval Sovereign African Art Prize.

In 2022 Kavula will present her first museum exhibition at the Norval Foundation, in Cape Town, South Africa. In 2021, she presented a solo booth at Art Basel Miami Beach, titled a re kopane ko thabeng, as well as her first solo exhibition, sewedi sewedi, at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town. Other recent projects include a solo booth at the 2020 Investec Cape Town Art Fair, as part of the curated section, TOMORROWS/TODAY, in Cape Town; Art Times, a performance at A4 Arts Foundation in Cape Town, in 2019; and Twenty Sexy, a performance at blank projects gallery in Cape Town in 2018.

Selected group exhibitions include: Inner Landscapes, at Bloom Galerie in Geneva, Switzerland; and Subverted Realities at Bode Projects in Berlin, Germany, both in 2022; Speculative Enquiry #1: On Abstraction, at the Michaelis Galleries in Cape Town (2019); The Main Complaint, curated by Michaela Limberis at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA); and Shady Tactics, curated by Thuli Gamedze at SMAC Gallery in Cape Town, both in 2018; Atomic Peace at The Bag Factory in Johannesburg, South Africa (2017); iQhiya Group Exhibition at the Association for Visual Arts (AVA) Gallery in Cape Town and New Monuments at Commune1 in Cape Town, both in 2016.

Her works are included in collections such as Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) Collection in Miami, USA, and the Iziko South African National Gallery Collection in Cape Town, South Africa.

Tim Marlow is Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum in London.

Formerly Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts and Director of Exhibitions at White Cube, Marlow has been involved in the contemporary art world for the past thirty years as a curator, writer and broadcaster.  He has worked with many of the most important and influential artists of our time to deliver wide-ranging and popular programmes and brings a commitment to diverse and engaging exhibitions to his new role showcasing the transformational capability of design.

Marlow sits on the Board of Trustees for the Imperial War Museum, Art on the Underground Advisory Board and Cultureshock Media. Marlow was awarded an OBE in 2019.

Marie-Ann Yemsi is an independent curator and contemporary art consultant. A graduate in political science, she is the founder and director of Agent Créatif(s), a Paris-based agency, which has developed a renowned expertise in cultural production and art consulting with a focus on contemporary artists from Africa, its diasporas and the Caribbean. Artistic Director of the 11th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography in 2017, she has been the curator of numerous international exhibitions for public or private institutions, in France and abroad.

Marie-Ann Yemsi is a member of the board of directors of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris and of the acquisitions commission of the Cnap – Centre National des Arts Plastiques, a public institution under the French Ministry of Culture dedicated to expand and manage France’s national contemporary art collection.

A native of France and Cameroon, Janine Gaëlle Dieudji is an independent exhibitions maker and producer living between Florence and Marrakech where she served as Director of Exhibitions at the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) for four years.

Past and current experiences include exhibitions and projects in collaboration with institutions such as Le Murate Art District, American Academy in Rome, Villa Romana, Gallerie degli Uffizi as Co-director and Vice-president of the association BHMF (Black History Month Florence), as well as Co-founder of The Recovery Plan cultural center in Florence, Italy.

David Elliott is a cultural and art historian, writer, curator and museum director primarily concerned with modern and contemporary art. Elliott was Director of the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford, England from 1976-96, Director of Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden from 1996-2001, the founding Director of the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Japan from 2001-06, the first Director of Istanbul Modern, Turkey in 2007 and from 2016-2019, Vice-Director and Senior Curator of the Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou. From 1998-2004, he was President of CIMAM (the International Committee of ICOM for Museums and Collections of Modern Art) and in 2008, the Rudolf Arnheim Guest Professor of Art History at Humboldt University, Berlin; from 2012 to 2017 he was a guest professor in curatorship at the Chinese University, Hong Kong.

He has worked extensively on modern and contemporary art from different parts of Africa and organised in Oxford Makonde in 1988 (with Moti Malde), Art from South Africa (1990) (with David Koalane) and, in Stockholm, Tokyo and other cities (with Simon Njami), Africa Remix (2003-06).

Since 2010, he has been the Artistic Director of biennales of contemporary art in Sydney, Kiev, Moscow and Belgrade and is currently working freelance as a writer and curator.