Véronique Poverello

Véronique Poverello is a curator and cultural producer who lives and works in Lubumbashi, DRC. With a degree in design and multimedia, she has been working for over 10 years in the cultural field in Congo and internationally. She curated several exhibitions for the French Institute of Lubumbashi before joining in 2015 the Waza Art Centre, an independent art space as curator and project manager. She is currently curating PAN!C (for PanAfrican Network for Independent Contemporaneity), a knowledge-sharing platform for independent contemporary art spaces on the African continent, Boda Boda Lounge a pan-African video art festival and Power to the commons, a research project exploring ideas of the commons from southern perspectives (Senegal, Colombia and DRC). Since February 2020, she is the coordinator (for the African region) of the Arts collaboratory network, which includes art spaces such as Doual'art (Cameroon), the Nubuke Foundation (Ghana) or Ker Thiossane (Senegal). She also works in university cooperation as head of the office of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Lubumbashi since October 2019. In 2021 she started working with GROUP50:50 as project manager for The Ghosts Are Returning.