Dr. Portia Malatjie is a curator and Senior Lecturer at the University of Cape Town and holds a PhD in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths University of London, where she was associate lecturer. Her visual cultural and curatorial research explores Blackness through the intersection of sound, spirituality, ecologies, and Black feminism. She was the curator of the South African Pavilion at the 2024 60th Venice Biennale with an exhibition titled Quiet Ground. Malatjie was Adjunct Curator of Africa and African Diaspora at Tate Modern (London), Adjunct Curator at Norval Foundation (Cape Town), and a visiting fellow at Yale University.