Zeitz MOCAA
Cape Town, western-cape
Address
Silo District, S Arm Road, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town, western-cape, 8001
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Zeitz MOCAA celebrates the art of Africa and its diaspora – a gathering space for storytelling, creativity, and exchange.
Our collection tells a living story of Africa. It spans painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and performance – works that reflect the complexity and vitality of life across the continent and beyond.
Each exhibition builds conversation. We present art that questions, reveals, and celebrates. From renowned masters to emerging voices, Zeitz MOCAA offers artists a platform to be seen on their own terms, and audiences a chance to see Africa anew.
As a public, not-for-profit museum, Zeitz MOCAA exhibits, collects, preserves, and researches contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. We host international exhibitions, develop educational and enrichment programmes, encourage intercultural understanding, and strive for access for all.
Events at Zeitz MOCAA
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SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION
Ongoing exhibition featuring selections from Zeitz MOCAA's permanent collection.
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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
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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
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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
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SALA
Long-running exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA.