Valerie Kabov is the Director of First Floor Gallery Harare as well as the co-founder of the African Art Galleries Association.She is an educator, writer and researcher whose international experience in teaching, training and implementing proje

Ubuntu and Isintu, Milisuthando Bongela on How Not to Forget

Jan 31st, 2024 55m 16s

In this episode, Refiloe Mpakanyane speaks to award-winning writer Milisuthando Bongela. While her career began in fashion, her creative spirit has carried her into music, art, media and now film. Bongela has written and directed her first film

Setting your Change Agenda with Osei Bonsu

Jan 17th, 2024 57m 6s

In episode 10 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane speaks with British-Ghanaian, curatorial powerhouse, Osei Bonsu. A sought-after curator of contemporary art, Osei’s work has taken him all over the world, advising museums, art fai

On Blackness and Beauty with Ekow Eshun

Dec 6th, 2023 41m 55s

In Episode 9 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to Ekow Eshun; a British writer, journalist, broadcaster and curator, about his abiding penchant for doing the difficult (and sometimes agonising) in order to spark meaningful

Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Making Art is a Way of Thinking and Releasing

Nov 22nd, 2023 43m 29s

In episode 8 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to the dynamic New York born, South African-based, multi-media artist Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi, who received the Tollman Award for the Visual Arts in 2019 and the Phillippe Wamba P

Painting Our Humanity With Charles 'Chuck' Collins

Nov 8th, 2023 1h 3m

In episode 7 of the Latitudes Podcast, host Refiloe Mpakanyane talks to San Francisco based Charles 'Chuck' Collins. Whether working in law or sitting on the board of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Collins’ career has always bent towar

South African Modernism and Surprising Tales From a Life in the Auction World

Oct 25th, 2023 49m 25s

In this episode, Alastair Meredith chats to Refiloe about his fascination with South African modernist art; where it all started and why the genre remains the gift that keeps on giving to the South African public and the world. Alastair lets u

The ABCs of Gen Z: Always be creating

Oct 11th, 2023 44m 32s

In today's episode, host Refiloe Mpakanyane delves into why so many Gen-Z artists multi-task and produce at the intimidating rate they do. In conversation with dynamic young artists and ANNA Award finalists, Nindya Bucktowar and Alexandra-Naled

Simchowitz and Altman: The Lightning Rod and The Anchor

Sep 27th, 2023 57m 8s

Our guests on this episode of the Latitudes Podcast are South African-born, U.S-based friends of more than 30 years: Stefan Simchowitz and David Altman. Their wide-ranging conversation with Refiloe explores everything from walking the line betw

Cinga Samson: Staying grounded amid a meteoric rise

Sep 13th, 2023 45m 38s

Refiloe is in conversation with visual artist Cinga Samson about his meteoric rise to global, artistic success. Known for his figurative oil paintings of large-scale group scenes and self-portraits; along with his depictions of figures with pup

Standing on quicksand with gallerist Mark Read

Aug 30th, 2023 44m 17s

Refiloe interviews Mark Read, the chairman of Africa's oldest commercial gallery, the Everard Read Group. They talk about Mark’s unique experience of being raised in the art business; then going on to helm and grow the family enterprise and ult

Architecture as an artistic medium: what are its impacts on local, social narratives?

Aug 16th, 2023 48m 19s

Refiloe speaks to Professor Sumayya Vally, acclaimed architect (and principal of the award winning architecture and research practice Counterspace) about architecture as an artistic medium. The conversation salvages the concept from the idealis

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