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Zeitz MOCAA
SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION
Ongoing exhibition featuring selections from Zeitz MOCAA's permanent collection.
04 Apr 2024 - 04 Apr 2027
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Zeitz MOCAA
A Protea Is Not a Flower
Opening on 16 October 2025, A Protea Is Not a Flower at Zeitz MOCAA is a profound multigenerational dialogue exploring the complexities of the South African exilic experience. Curated by Khanyi Mawhayi, the exhibition features contemporary artists Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode responding to the legacies of painter Gerard Sekoto and writers Bessie Head and Don Mattera. Through a mix of painting, film, and newly commissioned murals, the show uses the metaphor of the protea—a plant with deep roots capable of surviving harsh conditions—to examine themes of displacement, identity, and memory. By weaving together modernist history with contemporary installations, the exhibition questions what it means to belong and how art can transcend the physical and emotional borders of exile
16 Oct 2025 - 15 Nov 2026
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Goodman Gallery Cape Town
Atta Kwami | Dynamic Equilibrium
Goodman Gallery is delighted to present Dynamic Equilibrium, Atta Kwami’s second solo exhibition with the gallery since announcing representation of the estate in partnership with Beardsmore Gallery. Spanning works made between 1999 and 2020, the exhibition highlights the breadth of Kwami’s singular practice and reaffirms his place as one of the most important African abstract painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
07 Feb 2026 - 11 Apr 2026
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Zeitz MOCAA
Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted
Zeitz MOCAA presents Afflict the Comfortable, Comfort the Afflicted, a major survey exhibition by Los Angeles–based artist Cauleen Smith, running from 20 November 2025 to 4 October 2026. Marking Smith’s first major presentation on the African continent, this immersive show combines short films, drawings, and colourful textile banners to explore themes of Black feminism, Afrofuturism, and the emancipatory power of the imagination. Curated by Thato Mogotsi, the exhibition invites visitors into atmospheric installations that blend jazz, spirituality, and experimental cinema, transforming the gallery into a space for creative resistance and collective care
20 Nov 2025 - 04 Oct 2026
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Oliewenhuis Art Museum
BEYOND WALLS
Participating: Several artists Beyond Walls - Oliewenhuis Museum - Boemfontein Emerging Contemporary Voices. Curated from the Artbanksa Collection
04 Dec 2025 - 06 Apr 2026
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Zeitz MOCAA
We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight
Zeitz MOCAA presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku, open from 11 September 2025 to 4 October 2026. Tracing a decade of "quiet revolutions" in cloth and memory, the exhibition showcases Opoku’s mastery of textiles, photography, and printmaking to explore the intersections of identity and ancestral lineage. Guided by the themes of water, breath, and ground, the survey follows the artist’s journey from East Germany to her ancestral home in Accra, Ghana. The exhibition title, inspired by ancient Egyptian funerary texts, frames Opoku’s work as a textured archive of selfhood and a profound record of cultural passage
11 Sept 2025 - 04 Oct 2026
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