bio | Khwezi Gule is a curator and writer based in Johannesburg. He is currently Chief Curator at the Soweto Museums which includes, the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum and the Kliptown Open Air Museum. Prior to that Gule held the position of curator: contemporary collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Gule has curated a number of projects locally and internationally. He has contributed essays to various publications including exhibition catalogues, journals and newspapers and has delivered numerous conference and seminar papers straddling his areas of interest namely: the art field and heritage studies such as presentation at the Artists’ Congress (convened by Chus Martinez) for dOCUMENTA (13) and an essay for the exhibition catalogue of The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (curated by Okwui Enwezor and Rory Bester).
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