Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Cape Town. Founder of Creative Knowledge Resources and internationally recognised scholar on African art, photography, and social justice. Makhubu co-curated a previous South African Pavilion and has received major awards from ACLS, ASA, and Harvard University. 

Director of Andani.Africa, co-founder of Open Restitution Africa, and a leading voice in cultural policy, knowledge justice, and community-driven cultural practice. Moiloa has worked widely across Africa to reimagine ethical governance within cultural institutions.

Independent curator with extensive international experience. Former curator at the Brooklyn Museum New York and the Krannert Art Museum in Illinois USA. Mosaka has curated exhibitions across Europe, Africa, and the United States with a focus on global contemporary practice and African diasporic narratives.

Dr Greer Valley is a curator, scholar, and researcher whose work engages the intersections of art, history, and epistemic justice. As Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town, she leads exhibitions, research, and public programmes that position artistic practices from Africa and its diasporas within global contemporary art discourse.

Writer, editor, critic, and educator whose work has shaped public and scholarly discourse around contemporary South African art. His texts appear internationally in key art journals, catalogues, and publications. O’Toole brings a critical curatorial literacy framing local work within global perspectives.

An attorney and erstwhile professor of law at Touro University in New York, and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., a former journalist for the Washington Post newspaper, and previously the United States Deputy Assistant Secretary for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, will serve as the independent, external auditor.