Team
Managing Director: Mirjam Asmal-Dik
Head of Projects :Jonathan Garnham
Head of Research: Gabi Ngcobo
Producer: Lebohang Tlali
Project Writer: Stacy Hardy
Arts Awareness & Education Coordinators: Hannah Loewenthal and Mpho Masilele
X-CAPE Coordination: VANSA (The Visual Arts Network of SA)
Support
Auditors: Fisher Hoffman PKF
Financial Management: CMDS
Attorneys: Fairbridges
Creative: Daddy buy me a pony
Brand & Marketing/ Media Strategy: Imagine Nation Alliance
Mirjam Asmal-Dik (MD)
Originally from the Netherlands, Mirjam completed a Bachelors degree in International Management before obtaining her Masters in the History of Art, specialising in Indian contemporary art, from the University of Amsterdam. She has worked for numerous galleries in Europe including the Royal Hibernian Academy Gallagher Gallery in Dublin, Ireland and Foundation for Indian Arts in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. On arrival in South Africa Mirjam joined the Association for Visual Arts in Cape Town as Gallery Custodian. Since 1998 she has held the position of Manager of the Pro Helvetia Liaison Office Cape Town (Arts Council of Switzerland).
Jonathan Garnham
Jonathan Garnham is the project coordinator for CAPE 07 exhibition. He is an artist and co- founder of ‘blank projects’, an independent project space showcasing the visual arts and, in partnership with Pro Helvetia, hosting Swiss artists on residency programmes in Cape Town. He left South Africa in the late eighties and obtained his MFA at the University of the Arts in Berlin after which he co- founded ‘kunst+technik’, an association of artists and architects working between the disciplines and in new media who became well known for their legendary bar and exhibition space in Berlin-Mitte in the late nineties. He lived and worked in Berlin as an artist and independent curator for 10 years and in 2002 he returned to South Africa and now lives in Cape Town. He was the Head of the Department of Art and Design at the College of Cape Town from 2005 - 2006 and has recently been elected chairperson of VANSA Western Cape.
Gabi Ngcobo (Curator/Head of Research)
Gabi Ngcobo traces her experience as an arts administrator from 1999, when she was co-ordinator of the Ithunga Art Project in Durban, through to her current co-curatorship of the Erase Me From Who I Am exhibition in Las Palmas. After obtaining a BA Honours Fine Arts degree from the University of Durban Westville in 1995, Ngcobo went on to become a founder member and co-ordinator of the Third Eye Vision artists’ collective in Durban, where she initiated workshops, co-ordinated exhibitions and ran programmes that brought artists together and introduced the visual arts to new audiences. She has been active in the Visual Arts Network of South Africa (VANSA), as conference content co-ordinator in 2004 and as Western Cape chair and provincial representative on the national body in 2005. Ngcobo has exhibited widely and taken part in artists’ workshops locally and abroad. She has also worked as a researcher and artist liaison for the Centre for Creative Arts in Durban. A regular contributor to Art South Africa Magazine, she has been Artthrob KwaZulu-Natal editor, presented papers at VANSA conferences and been guest designer of the Chimurenga Journal.
Stacy Hardy (Project writer)
Stacy Hardy is a writer, journalist, multimedia artist and theatre practitioner. She has lectured and tutored in the Drama Department at Rhodes University and has staged numerous productions around the country. She has 6 year’s experience as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and features writer, and 5 year’s experience in advertising. Her digital and multimedia art has been exhibited at various local and international exhibitions and she was a member of the South African delegation at Ars Electonica in Austria in 2002. Her digital work has won numerous awards, including a gold Construction Award [2003]. Her fiction has appeared in various local journals and she participated in the 2003 Crossing Border Festival in Den Hagen, The Netherlands.
Lebohang Tlali (Producer)
Lebohang Tlali is a photographer and artist originally from the Free State, but currently living in Cape Town. He has extensive experience working with various artists and photographers on projects/commissions either as an assistant and/or collaborator. He was part of the Brett Kebble Art Award team and is part of the organising and curatorial team for the third Straight to Video art event for 2006. He has exhibited his own photographs in various venues and galleries in Cape Town. His main interest is in portraiture dealing with issues of identity and perception, particularly of the black male.
