Gabi Ngcobo has been the Curatorial Director of the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP) since 2021 where she organised the exhibitions Handle with Care and Scenorama. Ngcobo has been critical in positioning the Art Centre as a living school and has set up collective learning (class) rooms focusing on works from collections and bringing to South Africa Frequencies, a project by Oscar Murillo as well as working with artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Luana Vitra on new commissions supported by the Hartwig Art Fund (NL). In 2022 Ngcobo curated The Show is Over at the South London Gallery and co-curated (with Murillo) The ‘t’ is Silent at the Museum Dhondt-Dhaenes in Deurle, Belgium. Before Javett-UP Ngcobo was a lecturer at the Wits School of the Arts in Johannesburg. In 2018 she curated the 10th Berlin Biennale titled We Don’t Need Another Hero and was one of the co-curators of the 32nd Sao Paulo Bienal titled Incenteza Viva. She is a founding member of the Johannesburg based collaborative platforms NGO – Nothing Gets Organised (2016-) and the Center for Historical Reenactments (2010–14). In January 2024, Ngobo will begin her term as a director of Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, NL
Ngcobo’s writings have been published in various publications including Shooting Down Babylon: The Tracey Rose Retrospective at Zeitz MoCCA, Cape Town, (2022)Uneven Bodies, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, Aotearoa New Zealand (2021), The Stronger We Become the catalogue of the South African Pavilion, Venice (2019), We Are Many: Art, the Political and Multiple Truths and Texte Zur Kunst September 2017.