Don’t miss the opportunity to join our exclusive online talk today at 5 pm with Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA. This members-only event offers unique insights and an engaging Q&A session. To become a member and register for the event, contact membership@zeitzmocaa.museum.
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CELEBRATING OUR LEADERSHIP AND TEAM
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David Green awarded an Officer of the
Order of the British Empire
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We are incredibly honoured to announce that Zeitz MOCAA Co-founder and Co-chair and V&A Waterfront CEO David Green has been recognised in the King's New Year Honours list.
David was awarded an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his outstanding contributions to UK-South Africa relations. The honour was officially conferred on 1 January 2025.
Koyo Kouoh, Zeitz MOCAA Executive Director and Chief Curator, remarked: “On behalf of the Trustees and Leadership team of Zeitz MOCAA, I warmly congratulate David on this prestigious and well-deserved recognition. His visionary leadership and commitment to the advancement of our mission to present and preserve contemporary art from Africa and its vast Diaspora are etched in the transformative work and impact of our groundbreaking institution on the global art ecology. We are honoured to see him join the list of distinguished OBE awardees." Read More
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Koyo Kouoh appointed Curator of the Venice Biennale 2026
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Zeitz MOCAA Executive Director and Chief Curator, Koyo Kouoh, was appointed as the Director of the Visual Arts Department for the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, set to take place in 2026!
Kouoh has been leading Zeitz MOCAA on a transformative journey since May 2019. Her exceptional work at Zeitz MOCAA, as well as her previous curatorial contributions, have garnered global recognition. From her impactful exhibitions like Body Talk and Still (the) Barbarians, to her thought-provoking research projects, Koyo has been a transformative force in the art world. Her visionary approach and deep commitment to amplifying African and African-descent artists make her an ideal choice to lead La Biennale into its next chapter.
Koyo Kouoh's Vision: “The International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia has been the centre of gravity for art for over a century. It is a once-in-a-lifetime honour to follow in the footsteps of luminary predecessors, and to compose an exhibition that will carry meaning for the world we currently live in — and most importantly, for the world we want to make."
Join us in celebrating this monumental achievement! We can’t wait to see the future of art unfold under Koyo’s leadership at La Biennale di Venezia. Read More
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Meet the recipients of the Zeitz MOCAA
Longstanding Awards 2024
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From left. Front: Ammaarah Creighton, Samshiya Karsten, Liesl Hartman, Koyo Kouoh, Ielhaam Regal, Candice McKop, Tasneem Tarmahomed, Roxanne Butler
Back: Lerato Mahote, Mncedi Lavisa, Julia Kabat, Fawaz Mustapha, Petulia Williamson
We wrapped up the year on a celebratory note with our Inaugural Zeitz MOCAA Longstanding Awards 2024 which took place at the end-of-year staff party.
This award celebrates Zeitz MOCAA team members for their service of more than 5 years. These extraordinary humans are a symbol of perseverance, passion, and purpose. They have demonstrated a spirit of unwavering dedication to the vision and mission of our groundbreaking pan-African and pan-diasporic institution. Their individual and combined contributions have enabled us to present and preserve contemporary art from across our beautiful continent of Africa, and its vast Diaspora. They leave an enduring impact on all of us.
The Zeitz MOCAA Longstanding Award is more than a recognition of years served. It’s a reminder that true success is built over time with people who possess the right attitude to call forth success. In the words of multi-disciplinary artist and activist, Maya Angelou, “Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.”
Phumza Ntamo was recogised in absentia and her team leader, Mr Mnini Moyo, received the award on her behalf.
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Zeitz MOCAA Gala 2025
21 February | 5 pm
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We look forward to welcoming our international visitors and local supporters as our guests to the Zeitz MOCAA Gala on Friday, 21 February 2025. The Gala is the museum’s annual fundraiser and a much anticipated event on the Cape Town art calendar. This elegant gathering plays a crucial role in advancing the institution’s mission to exhibit, collect, preserve and research contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora.
Proceeds from the Gala directly benefit the museum’s curatorial and education programming, enabling the institution to conceive and host international exhibitions; develop supporting educational, discursive and enrichment programmes; encourage intercultural understanding; and ensure access for all. Read More
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The Zeitz MOCAA Gala 2025 is proudly supported by BMW South Africa,
Don Julio, Hazendal Wines, YourLuxury Africa, The Aleit Group, and Africology.
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Zeitz MOCAA Members
Today, 17 January | 5 pm - 6 pm
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Don’t miss the opportunity to join our exclusive online talk today at 5 pm with Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz MOCAA. This members-only event, hosted by Zeitz MOCAA and American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA, offers unique insights and an engaging Q&A session. Become a member today to attend the talk!
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Members' Exclusive Workshop
Creative Futures: A Vision Board Experience
25 January | 10.15 am - 2 pm
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Start 2025 with creativity and intention at our January Members' Workshop. Drawing inspiration from Jody Paulsen’s vibrant artwork, Here to Stay, currently featured in the Selections from the Collection exhibition on level 2 at Zeitz MOCAA, this workshop invites you to reflect on your goals and aspirations for the year ahead. Using felt, create a collage of images and words that captures your vision for a positive and fulfilling 2025. Join us for a fun and meaningful session!
The Members’ Workshop programme offers members a creative experience to strengthen their connection to art and deepen their understanding of the artwork on exhibit at the museum. Materials and equipment are provided along with tea and snacks.
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Date and Time
Saturday, 25 January 2025
10.15 am – 2 pm
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January Family Learning: DREAM BIG!
A Felt Dream Board Workshop
25 January | 10.15 am - 12.30 pm
BMW Centre for Art Education, Level -1
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Start 2025 on a creative and inspiring note with our January Family Learning Workshop! Together with your children, create dream boards inspired by Jody Paulsen’s vibrant artwork, Here to Stay, currently featured in the Selections from the Collection exhibition on level 2 at Zeitz MOCAA. Craft felt collages using objects, images, and words that capture your hopes, wishes, and goals for the year ahead. Join us for a fun, meaningful experience that sparks imagination and sets the tone for a positive and fulfilling year!
Zeitz MOCAA’s Family Learning Workshops at the BMW Centre for Art Education enable parents/guardians and their children to share a creative experience and develop their engagement with art, together. Materials and equipment are provided along with a snack break.
Date and Time
Saturday, 25 January 2025
10.15 am – 12.30 pm
Participants must make their way down to the BMW Centre for Art Education on level -1 by 10.10 am. The workshop will begin promptly at 10.15 am with a visit to the artworks, where applicable.
Cost
Children enter for free and must be accompanied by an adult.
R250 per entry or free with museum membership (R390 pp)
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MOCAA Art Club Exhibition: A Seat at the Table
On until 28 February 2025
BMW Centre for Art Education, Basement Tunnels, Level -1
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The MOCAA Art Club (M A C) has wrapped up for the year, culminating in an exhibition titled A Seat at the Table which opened on Saturday, 2 November at the BMW Centre for Art Education, Basement Tunnels, on level -1. M A C is an art club for teenagers in grades 9 to 11 that come from different schools and areas in Cape Town, joined together by their desire to learn about, discuss, and create art. The intention of the club is to develop art literacy, criticality and to build social cohesion.
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On Site
On until 2 March 2025
Level 2
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Visit the Zeitz MOCAA Atelier on level 2 of the museum to experience the artist in residence Berni Searle at work. Searle is the museum’s sixth resident in an eight-month residency. Titled On Site, the residency includes selections from previous bodies of work by the artist, as well as sketches, objects, and publications which are on view while she develops new ideas in-situ.
The city of Cape Town is central to Searle’s practice, which is connected to the experiences and narratives of its people, its histories, and poetics, both troubled and transcendent. She draws from her own biography as an inhabitant of the city. The residency is a celebration of this relationship to place. On Site situates the artist within her context as an affirmation, with the studio functioning as a site for reflection, observation, and play. Read More
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Silo Through the Century: Into the Contemporary
Intermittent Architecture Exhibition
Scheryn Arena, Level 0
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Silo Through the Century: Into the Contemporary is a mobile infographic exhibition expanding on the rich history of the former grain silo and its transformation into a museum of contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora.
Built in 1924, the Cape Town grain silo was stationed as one of the tallest buildings in South Africa and represented a shift in economic modes of production from agricultural to industrial systems. Situated within the iconic Victoria and Alfred port, the Cape Town grain silo was eventually reformed into the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. The exhibition details this transformation through the decades, highlighting key moments of operations from the 1920s, to the ambitious proposal to repurpose it in the early 2000s. Being mobile, the exhibition looks at the dynamic ways this building has transformed through the years and offers visitors closer insight through the layering of archival images, video, and objects.
Please note that this intermittent exhibition is de-installed until further notice to accomodate public programming in the Scheryn Arena.
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UNDERSTUDIES
On until 25 May 2025
Level 3 Elevator Side
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UNDERSTUDIES is the first major South African museum solo exhibition by artist Nolan Oswald Dennis who lives and works in Johannesburg. Using indexical, analytic and educational devices as tools for rehearsal rather than tools for instruction, the artist suggests that the meaning of these artworks should emerge from the multiple relations between objects in the exhibition and the world outside of it. Read More
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The Other Side of Now
On until 20 July 2025
Level 4
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The Other Side of Now is a solo exhibition of film and sculpture by Vietnamese American artist Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn. The exhibition explores the transnational entanglements created by colonisation and war. Particularly attending to the erased voices of Vietnamese, Senegalese, and Moroccan history, the exhibition proposes a space for communal healing and remembrance. Read More
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One Must Be Seated by Rita Mawuena Benissan
On until 5 October 2025
Level 3 Silo Side
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One Must Be Seated is a solo exhibition by Ghanaian-American interdisciplinary artist Rita Mawuena Benissan. Benissan’s practice is deeply rooted within her Ghanaian identity, with particular focus on the reimagining of the royal umbrella, a strong symbol of Ghanaian identity and chieftaincy. One Must Be Seated explores the enstoolment process of a prospective new chief. An ancestral call on a new leader to take their rightful seat in the stool that has been chosen for them. Through tapestry, sculpture, photography and video, Benissan’s work aims to highlight and celebrate the rich traditions of Ghanaian culture, still practiced today. Read More
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Selections from the Collection
On until 4 April 2027
Level 2
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Our collection is thoroughly contemporary and addresses several relevant discourses in Africa and the world today, like migration, human rights, visibility, memory, and desire. Notably, it includes works by some of the most celebrated artists working in the world today. We also hold comprehensive bodies of work from singular artists like Nandipha Mntambo, Zanele Muholi and Kudzanai Chiurai, amongst others. Read More
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Sala
On until 12 April 2026
Level 1
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Sala invites you to stay. A word shared among many Nguni languages in Southern Africa, sala is part of a call and response between people parting ways – hamba kahle, a well-wishing of safe travels to those who are departing, sala kahle welcoming those who are staying behind to ‘stay well.’ Zeitz MOCAA welcomes you to stay with seventeen artists in our permanent collection; stay with us to re-imagine the museum as a new embodied space. Read More
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Zeitz MOCAA’s curatorial and exhibition programming is generously supported by Gucci, the Mellon Foundation, and BMW South Africa.
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Support our Mission!
There are many ways to support Zeitz MOCAA and your generosity enables us to present world-class exhibitions, protect our collection, offer innovative education programmes, and much more. No matter how you choose to show your support, you help us connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas.
Please contact the Institutional Advancement Department for more information.
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Become a Member!
Join our member community to enjoy year-round access and other curated benefits while helping further the museum’s mission.
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Zeitz MOCAA would like to extend our gratitude to Hazendal Wines for their continued support and sponsorship of our Membership programme.
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Zeitz MOCAA thanks Corporate Members Allan Gray, Bloomberg,
Private Clients by Old Mutual Wealth, and all members for supporting our initiatives to promote contemporary art from Africa and its Diaspora.
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Enjoy our FREE Offerings!
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FREE Daily Tours!
Mondays through Fridays | 12.30 pm - 1.30 pm
Free daily 1-hour tours are offered Monday through Friday at 12.30 pm. Book on arrival at the museum with our friendly Front of House team as we have limited capacity. We look forward to sharing exhibition insights, architectural history, and more!
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FREE Africa Wednesdays!
Wednesdays | 10 am - 1 pm
Free entry every Wednesday from 10 am to 1 pm for all African citizens on presentation of your South African ID or African passport. Feel free to stay until 6 pm once you have your complimentary access ticket.
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FREE Birthday Month!
Mondays through Sundays | 10 am - 6 pm
Stop by on any day during your birthday month, present your valid South African ID or African passport reflecting your birth date, and your day of fun at the museum will be on us. Last entry at 5.30 pm.
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The Zeitz MOCAA Shop offers a selection of art-inspired contemporary books, prints, stationery, gifts, jewellery, and fashion curated in collaboration with leading designers and artists from South Africa, the African continent, and beyond.
Zeitz MOCAA Members get 10% discount at the Zeitz MOCAA Shop.
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