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Bit obvious but Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town. Art museum and hotel converted from grain silos in a working harbour. Like a cathedral inside
Inside of ZEITZ MOCAA showing the grain silos cut to open them up Outside of ZEITZ MOCAA showing the grain silos and glass hotel on top
September 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa [OC] r/brutalism
August 6, 2026 at 11:28 PM
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Looking up
MOCAA
Cape Town

#photography #architecture
March 6, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Koyo Kouoh, the curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town, has died, Zeitz MOCAA announced today.
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Koyo Kouoh, Pan-African curator and director of MOCAA, 1967-2025
Zeitz MOCAA announced her ‘sudden passing’
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May 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Op zo'n toilet voel je toch hartstikke #vibrant?
MOCAA-museum in Kaapstad, verbouwde graansilo werd een briljant gebouw.
#BlueSkyArtShow #Photography #FridayNightLights #mocaa #kaapstad #southafrica
MOCAA Museum Cape Town/Kaapstad in South-Africa
January 10, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
21st November 2024
November 21, 2024 at 4:32 PM
sifill.bsky.social
You cannot imagine how devastating this is.

Rest in Perfect Peace Koyo Kouoh🙏🏾

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Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News
Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.
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May 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
arunadsouza.bsky.social
Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA, and curator of the upcoming Venice Biennale, has passed away. I cannot fully fathom what a loss this is for the art world—she was a singular person.
Zeitz MOCAA Mourns the Passing of Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator It is with profound sorrow that the Trustees of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) received news in the early hours of this morning, of the sudden passing of Koyo Kouoh, our beloved Executive Director and Chief Curator.
May 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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No no no 💔
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Koyo Kouoh, pan-African curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA, 1967-2025
Zeitz MOCAA announced her ‘sudden passing’
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May 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Museum Of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA), Cape Town (misidentified previously) #photography #fotografia #photographie #photographersofbluesky #photo #architecture #London #Bluesky #contrast #art #photooftheday #iphone #fullframe #potd #artwork #artist #creatives #Photographersunited #stunday
April 8, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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“Two Reclining Women” by Zandile Tshabalala (South African) - Acrylic on canvas / 2020 - Zeitz MOCAA (Cape Town, South Africa) #WomenInArt #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #ZandileTshabalala #Tshabalala #ZeitzMOCAA #art #artText #MOCAA #BlackArtist #SouthAfricanArt #SouthAfricanArtist #BlackArt
Two women recline side by side on a sofa (one from the left and the other from the right) their bodies stretched across the canvas with the easy confidence of people who fully belong where they are. South African artist Zandile Tshabalala dresses them in leopard-print slips and gives them striking red lipstick, details that make the painting feel lush, glamorous, and confident. Their poses echo the long European tradition of the reclining nude, but this scene refuses passivity. These women are not offered up for our fantasy. They occupy the canvas on their own terms. The mood is both intimate and alert. Even in repose, they project control. The surface is decorative and bold, with color and pattern doing as much emotional work as anatomy. Rather than treating Black femininity as marginal or secondary, Tshabalala makes it central, sensuous, and unmistakably modern. That reversal is at the heart of the painting’s power. Born in Soweto , South Africa in 1999, Tshabalala has spoken about wanting to bring Black women forward in a history of art that so often pushed them to the edge or cast them in compromised roles. Here, she answers the old genre of the odalisque and reclining nude with a new image of beauty, leisure, and self-definition. Rest becomes a political and poetic space. The women do not need to explain themselves. Their presence is enough. In the context of "When We See Us," a landmark exhibition centered on Black self-representation and Black joy, the painting feels especially resonant. It is luxurious, yes, but also corrective like a declaration that softness, vanity, beauty, sensuality, and rest all belong within the visual language of Black life. Tshabalala turns a familiar art-historical format into something freer and more generous, replacing the outsider’s gaze with one grounded in dignity, pleasure, and self-possession.
April 9, 2026 at 5:47 PM
rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
Such heartbreaking news.

Koyo Kouoh, who was curating the 2026 Venice Biennale, has died. First African at the helm of the Venice Biennale. The executive director and chief curator of Zeitz Museum MOCAA, Cape Town, was 58.

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Koyo Kouoh, 2026 Venice Biennale Curator, Dies Suddenly | Artnet News
Koyo Kouoh, executive director and chief curator of Zeitz MOCAA and curator of the next Venice Biennale, died suddenly overnight.
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May 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekAforAngles

Atrium of Zeitz MOCAA – Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, Cape Town
The grain silos converted to atrium of a museum. 4 round pipe structures forming a skylight surrounded by half pipes which form the wall of the atrium.
December 30, 2024 at 5:34 PM
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This is such a shock. How can this be. A huge loss.

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Koyo Kouoh, pan-African curator and director of Zeitz MOCAA, 1967-2025
Zeitz MOCAA announced her ‘sudden passing’
artreview.com
May 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Formerly a grain silo, the MOCAA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Africa) houses the largest collection of modern African Art (#Capetown, April 2026, iPhone 16pro).

Cool elevator in the tallest part of the silo.

#southafrica #photography #mocaa #africanart
May 7, 2026 at 2:07 AM
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Deprived of the Past and the Present, from the series Fragile Responsibility (2017) by Congolese artist, Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga (born in 1991).

Acrylic and oil on canvas

188 x 199 cm

Zeitz Collection of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
February 6, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Twenty places I’d like to visit in my lifetime.

1/20
Cape Town - Table Mountain, Robben Island, Bo-Kaap neighborhood, District Six Museum, Zeitz MOCAA gallery, Diamond Museum, Nobel Square, Victoria and Albert Waterfront. So much I’d like to see and experience there.
June 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Elvira Dyangani Ose has been appointed artistic director of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town.
Elvira Dyangani Ose named artistic director of Zeitz MOCAA
She will start the role on 1 October
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August 12, 2026 at 10:42 AM
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A moçaa tá parecendo a anittaa
January 5, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Zeitz MOCAA Taps Elvira Dyangani Ose as Artistic Director
Zeitz MOCAA Taps Elvira Dyangani Ose as Artistic Director | Artnet News
Zeitz MOCAA appoints Elvira Dyangani Ose for its next chapter, succeeding the late Koyo Kouoh as the Cape Town museum turns 10.
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August 12, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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In Cape Town's Waterfront, instead of demolishing the old grain silo's, they cut out the centre of the massive concrete cylinders and transformed them into a contemporary art museum. Right at the base of the void is a small arena. Just the right size for me ...
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Architects Transform Grain Silos into Africa's Largest Art Museum
Heatherwick Studios reveals the interiors of the Zeitz MOCAA, a new contemporary African art museum opening in Capetown, South Africa.
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April 24, 2026 at 8:37 AM
liberation.fr
⚫ Koyo Kouoh, à la tête du musée d’art contemporain Zeitz Mocaa en Afrique du Sud, est morte samedi, elle avait 57 ans. Sa nomination fin 2024 à la Biennale de Venise promettait une édition palpitante.
Mort de Koyo Kouoh : l’art contemporain africain perd son cap
A la tête du musée d’art contemporain Zeitz Mocaa en Afrique du Sud, la Suisso-Camerounaise est morte samedi à 57 ans. Sa nomination fin 2024 à la Biennale de Venise promettait une édition palpitante.
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May 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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MOCAA
February 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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It's the Zietz Mocaa art gallery which houses contemporary art from Africa and the African diaspora. An incredible experience if you have the chance to go. zeitzmocaa.museum
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July 13, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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Zohra Opoku combines photography, printmaking, embroidery and sculpture around memory and identity.

That mix makes memory feel less like an archive and more like something constantly rebuilt.

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#AfricanArt #Photography
Zeitz MOCAA - Museum of Contemporary Art - Zeitz MOCAA
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August 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM