Media Release
Zeitz MOCAA launches 'Everything but the Exhibition' online publication
(Cape Town, South Africa, Thursday, 17 September 2026): Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) has launched an online publication titled Everything but the Exhibition, as an extension of IMPRINT, the Museum's publishing-focused Atelier.
Everything but the Exhibition is an online publication that engages a public-facing approach to publishing. With publishing practices as its initial focus, it seeks to interrogate curatorial hierarchies through the multiplicity of experimental visual and auditory matter, conversation, and the rigour of critical discourse. Everything but the Exhibition (EBTE) launched on Thursday, 17 September 2026.
As both a concept and a title, Everything but the Exhibition delves into the curatorial beyond the exhibition: a thought experiment on publishing practices that tend to be perceived as peripheral. Here, publishing extends past traditional ideation, reaching across disciplines as an act of public proclamation and expression. From the context of a museum of art, it asks what ‘everything’ might include when exhibition is not positioned as the ultimate act. Rather, it ruminates on everything before, everything within, and everything after—the nuances in the making, reading, and afterlife. It shifts our attention to process, research, knowledge production, and layered investigations that typically live in the shadows of the exhibitionary experience, centring public acts that are seldomly seen.
As a groundbreaking institution dedicated to promoting and preserving contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, this not-to-be-missed exhibition season reflects Zeitz MOCAA’s commitment to producing and presenting cutting-edge contemporary exhibitions and art historical knowledge, enhancing the careers of Africa’s most talented artists in the 21st century and beyond, strengthening its education programmes, and ensuring access for all.
Zeitz MOCAA’s exhibition and curatorial programming is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation and BMW South Africa.
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About Zeitz MOCAA
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is a groundbreaking public not-for-profit institution that collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora; conceives and hosts international exhibitions; develops supporting educational, discursive, and enrichment programmes; encourages intercultural understanding; and ensures access for all.
The Museum’s galleries feature rotating temporary exhibitions, with dedicated space for the permanent collection. The institution also includes the BMW Centre for Art Education and the Koyo Kouoh Atelier, a museum residency programme for artists living and working in Cape Town.
Zeitz MOCAA, situated at the Silo District, South Arm Road, V&A Waterfront in Cape Town, South Africa, is open Monday through Sunday, 10 am to 6 pm (last entry at 5.30 pm). zeitzmocaa.museum
About the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the United States’ largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. mellon.org
About the BMW Group
With its four brands BMW, MINI, Rolls-Royce and BMW Motorrad, the BMW Group is the world’s leading premium manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles and also provides premium financial and mobility services. The BMW Group production network comprises over 30 production sites worldwide; the company has a global sales network in more than 140 countries.
In 2023, the BMW Group sold over 2.55 million passenger vehicles and more than 209,000 motorcycles worldwide. The profit before tax in the financial year 2023 was € 17.1 billion on revenues amounting to € 155.5 billion. As of 31 December 2023, the BMW Group had a workforce of 154,950 employees.
The success of the BMW Group has always been based on long-term thinking and responsible action. The company set the course for the future at an early stage and consistently makes sustainability and efficient resource management central to its strategic direction, from the supply chain through production to the end of the use phase of all products. www.bmwgroup.com