Founder.
Anelisa Mangcu is a Curator and Interdisciplinary Art Practitioner based in Cape Town. Mangcu is the co-founder of Victory of The Word NPC, an organisation that works on funding and investment strategies to stimulate and preserve art entities such as Lovedale Press. Expanding on her practice, she has curated booths for FNB Art Joburg, Investec Cape Town Art Fair, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair (New York) and Latitudes Art Fair.
Founded in 2020, Under the Aegis offers curatorial and art advisory services, produces exhibitions and facilitates the relationship between artists, collectors and institutional Collections from the African continent and the diaspora. Mangcu obtained an Honours in Curatorship from the Centre for Curating the Archive at Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town.