In June, G.A.S. Foundation in partnership with the Yinka Shonibare Foundation (Y.S.F.) announced the 2025–26 edition of Re:assemblages, a dynamic, multi-year programme designed to foster collaboration and experimentation across postcolonial art archives and library collections. This ambitious initiative reimagines the stewardship and activation of African and Afro-diasporic art archives, and will result in a rich constellation of international convenings, symposia, micro-publications, and a research intensive.
Ahead of this new edition, a dedicated panel comprising G.A.S. Executive Director Moni Aisida, G.A.S. Alumna and a London-based ethnobotanist Jonn Gale, Re:assemblages curator and Y.S.F. Associate Curator and Archivist Naima Hassan, CEO G.A.S and Y.S.F. Belinda Holden, Y.S.F. Communications and Projects Manager Magda Kaggwa, Writer and Founder of iranti press Maryam Kazeem, Y.S.F. Trustee and curator Ann Marie Peña, and Y.S.F. Head of Philanthropy Siti Osman was convened to oversee the selection of the Advisory Committee.
Today, we are pleased to announce the appointed members of the 2025–26 Re:assemblages Advisory Committee: Dr. Bea Gassmann de Sousa, Natasha Ginwala, Dr. Rangoato Hlasane, Dr. Oluwatoyin Zainab Sogbesan, Serubiri Moses, and Patrick Mudekereza.
These six distinguished curators, scholars, and cultural leaders bring deep expertise across fields including contemporary African art, art criticism, literature, cultural heritage, and archival practice. Collectively, they will serve as strategic advisors to both Re:assemblages and the African Arts Libraries Lab (AAL Lab), shaping the direction, structure, and global engagement of the programme. Their responsibilities will include participating in a series of virtual advisory meetings, offering insight on the programme’s curatorial direction and call for papers, guiding institutional and community partnerships, and supporting broader outreach and engagement efforts across Re:assemblages and the AAL Lab.
ABOUT THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Natasha Ginwala
Natasha Ginwala is a curator, researcher and writer, co-curator, Sharjah Biennial 16 (2023-25), artistic director of Colomboscope, Sri Lanka since 2019 and was Associate Curator at Large for Gropius Bau, Berlin (2018 – 2024). She also served as an artistic director of the 13th Gwangju Biennale (2021). Ginwala has been part of curatorial teams of 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2014), Contour Biennale 8, documenta 14 (2017), Taipei Biennale 2012 and co-curated several international exhibitions including at e-flux, Sharjah Art Foundation, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, ifa Gallery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, L’ appartement 22, Muzeum Sztuki w Łodzi, MCA Chicago, 56th Venice Biennale, SAVVY Contemporary and Zeitz MOCAA. Ginwala is a widely published author with a focus on contemporary art, visual culture, and social justice.
Dr. Oluwatoyin Sogbesan
Dr. Oluwatoyin Sogbesan is an architect, cultural historian, and art and heritage specialist. She is the founder and director of Àsà Heritage Africa Foundation, a non-governmental organisation focused on heritage identification, documentation, and preservation. Oluwatoyin holds a Doctorate in Culture, Policy and Management from City University London and an MA in Arts and Heritage Management from London Metropolitan University. She is a member of numerous international and national professional organisations, including the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA), and the Art Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA), as well as being part of the Architecture and Urbanism Research Hub. She holds numerous fellowships, including her role as an African Museology fellow at the Smithsonian Institute.
With over two decades of experience spanning the built environment, art, and the heritage sector, she interrogates culture and identity from a broader perspective. She is particularly dedicated to identifying, documenting, restoring, and preserving heritage sites, buildings, and cultures. Oluwatoyin serves as a consultant for the European Union Institute for Culture (EUNIC-Nigeria Cluster) on museums. She emphasises the proper understanding of intangible cultures and how they inform tangible cultural heritage from the African perspective. Her focus lies in making interpretations inclusive and democratic through various platforms that encourage interactivity and participation.
Oluwatoyin has served as a jury member for many national and international initiatives, including OpenWalls Arles in collaboration with Galerie Huit Arles, France, organised by the British Journal of Photography, Encontros da Imagem - International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, and the 'Connecting the Dots’ project by The Goethe-Institut Nigeria in partnership with The Ford Foundation. She was a guest curator for the LagosPhoto Festival 2020 initiative ‘Home Museum” and a visiting lecturer at Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design, Ohio. Previously, she was a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Ajayi Crowther University, Oyo.
Patrick Mudekereza
Born in 1983, Patrick Mudekereza is a writer and curator. He is the founding director of Centre d’art Waza in Lubumbashi (D.R. Congo) and has contributed to building international networks such as Arts Collaboratory and Another Roadmap for Arts Education. He co-founded Rencontres Picha, the Lubumbashi Biennale (2008–2015). His curatorial and publishing projects span Africa, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, including his participation in documenta fifteen (Kassel). He lectures at the University of Lubumbashi and is currently pursuing a PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles.
Dr. Rangoato Hlasane
Dr. Rangoato Hlasane’s artistic research and praxis is a bold concern and commitment to the search for and collective experiments in the co-creation of meaningful impact at the intersection of cultural work and socio-spatial justice. His praxis is best manifested in his co-founding of Keleketla! Library, Johannesburg (est. 2008). Through Keleketla!, his work has been collaboratively presented at the 10th Berlin Biennale of Contemporary Art (2018), documenta fifteen (2022) and at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (2024). He graduated in MAFA with the University of Johannesburg (2011) and completed PhD in African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand. Two of the chapters in the doctoral dissertation are in the form of essayistic videos namely Sesasedi sa Tsodio (2021- 2023) and Sa Koša ke Lerole (2023). This work (the essayistic videos) is the recipient of the (South African) National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Awards 2025 (Sub-Category: Best Visual Art). His book chapter, written with the late Bhekizizwe Peterson is titled ‘Matters of Kwaito and why Kwaito matters’, appears in the Routledge Handbook of African Popular Culture (2022) edited by Grace Musila. He is co-editor of Wondering Hand(s) and Spirited Ink: Snapshots into the Black Public Humanities (2024) with Moshibudi Motimele and 69 Years to the Treason Trial: The Drill Hall Arts Advocacy Project (2025) with Malose Malahlela. He was a lecturer in Fine Art at Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg (2013-2024), where left a legacy of collective/self-publishing and was shortlisted for the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching and Learning Awards (2023). At current he is assistant professor at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany.
Serubiri Moses
Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator, editor, and author based in New York City. His writing is primarily concerned with theories of African art and exhibition histories, and his exhibitions are rooted in methods of collective teaching and listening as an epistemic practice. He serves as part-time faculty in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY, and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held teaching positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice, Germany/United States; Dark Study, United States; Digital Earth Fellowship, Netherlands; and delivered lectures at Williams College, Massachusetts; Yale University, Connecticut; University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The New School and basis voor aktuelle kunst, Netherlands; College of the Atlantic, Maine; and University of the Arts Helsinki. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2021); the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY (2019); and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2018). He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth, received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College, and is an alumnus of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He is Contributing Editor at e-flux journal, and his forthcoming book Judith Namala: A Novella is published by CARA.
Dr. Beatrix Gassmann de Sousa
Dr. Beatrix Gassmann de Sousa is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the UCL School of European Languages, Society and Culture (SELCS)/ Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in London. She is the collaborative researcher for Tate Modern’s exhibition Nigerian Modernism, October 2025 until May 2026. Before completing her PhD at UCL History of Art on pre-Independence Nigerian art and philosophical concepts she worked extensively in the commercial art sector. Her specialism is historical African-centred culture and intellectual networks during the foundational years of the African Union. Central to her research and her first book manuscript is the pivotal role of continental African archives and scholarship for conceptions of global cultural modernity in a wider socio-ecological framework.
Re:assemblages 2025-26 is generously supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art and Afreximbank.
