Hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
The Curatorial Roundtable, an international forum for curators and institutional leaders to discuss formative and current projects, is hosted by Steven Henry Madoff, Founding Chair of the MA Curatorial Practice at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa is a curator, researcher, and PhD student at Global Studies University in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. She recently served as Director of Curatorial Services at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe, where she led curatorial programming and research in contemporary art and supported the institution’s national and international engagements. Her practice spans contemporary art, sound, and archival research, with particular attention to decolonial methodologies, ecological justice, Pan-African cultural exchange, social justice, and the politics of dissent. Muchemwa’s curatorial and scholarly work investigates how small acts of care, solidarity, and collective organization can resist the erasure of experience and create alternative spaces of relation and survival. Her projects include The Oxymoronic Tea Party and Nyami Nyami: Ancestral Frequencies. In 2024, she established the itinerant project Chikuruhuhwa. Her research also encompasses food and seed sovereignty, urban histories, national archives, and art as a method of resistance, repair, and imagining otherwise. Her current doctoral research extends these interests through the study of cultural production, knowledge, and global relations from the Global South.
For this talk, titled “Curating as Worldmaking,” Fadzai Veronica Muchemwa will discuss three exhibitions—Dis(colour)ed Margins, Jazzified: Expressions of Protest, and A Book That Cannot Be Read—and how they shaped her curatorial practice. She will reflect on curating as a way of challenging dominant narratives, creating space for marginalized histories, and questioning what museums allow us to see, know, and remember.