Dr. Mike Mavura leads Pamurove Foundation, a land-based social practice in Domboshava, Zimbabwe, blending social sciences, indigenous knowledge, and popular culture to explore civics, spaces, and design. His work spans curatorial projects, ecological interventions, rural design, and university teaching. Mavura’s fellowships include Liverpool Biennial Curators’ Week (2023), TURN2 Residency at ZK/U Berlin (2021), and Lagos Biennale Residency (2019). He holds a PhD in Politics from Rhodes University and a certificate in Conservation Agriculture from the Foundations for Farming Institute. He serves on the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust and ZK/U Berlin’s Advisory Board.

Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town-based curatorial theorist and sociologist who engages with her curatorial practice as Curing & Care, using the creative to instigate spaces for emancipatory practices, joy, play and Black Aliveness. Mbongwa is the founding Curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale, her other recent projects include: Inaugral curator of the Hazendal Festival 2024 Bele nje, Abathulanga; curator of Liverpool Biennial 2023 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things'; Curator of History’s Footnote: On Love & Freedom at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, Netherlands 2021. Mbongwa is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town and is a Blak C.O.R.E (Care of Radical Energy) Fellow at the University of Melbourne 2024-2025.