MOCAA Blog

By Tandazani Dhlakama, Assistant Curator at Zeitz MOCAA The term, ‘radical solidarity’ is one that we at Zeitz MOCAA have ruminated over since our Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh used it during an online conversation earlier this year. Internally, we...

A chance to take a moment and look deeper at some of the artworks Zeitz MOCAA has exhibited: This month, we look at Idéogrammes, signes, symboles et logos (Hommage - Youssouf Tata Cissé et Germaine Dieterlen) (2020), a site-specific work by artist, Abdoulaye Konaté...

My name is Phumza Ntamo and I am a Ticket Desk Assistant at Zeitz MOCAA. I started my journey at the museum in 2017 as a Sales Assistant in the shop. Last year, I moved to my spot in the Front of House where I am one of the first faces to greet visitors. Every day I...

The diptych Fantôme Créole Series (Papillon, No 2) is taken from Isaac Julien’s film Fantôme Afrique (2005), a film the artist made in conversation with his earlier work True North (2004). Fantôme Afrique is set in the city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, a...

#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Tammy Langtry, and I am a Curatorial Assistant at Zeitz MOCAA. Currently, we are all wondering how we can make sense of this world with its constantly shifting plates...

Hello everyone, I’m Storm Janse Van Rensburg, Senior Curator at Zeitz MOCAA As I am writing this, South Africa has been 94 days in lockdown. I cannot recall when last I have been in one place for more than three months in a row. Time has gone by incredibly fast and...

#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...

#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Mandisa Ngqulana, and I am the Museum Educator at Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Arts Education. I got to thinking recently about Billie Holiday’s version of the song Strange...

#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we look at US-born artist Glenn Ligon’s series of lithographs, Runaways (1993). Ligon explores the history of slavery, racial...

- By Liesl Hartman, Head of Zeitz MOCAA's Centre for Art Education Museums are educational institutions accustomed to a specifically physical interface with our visitors. We, like many other museums, consider our gallery environment more than a workspace - it is our...

When you think of a museum, what picture comes to mind? Beautiful or interesting art? A unique building? Engaging programming? You wouldn’t be wrong if those were your answers, but it’s also people. This is the first in our series #MoloMOCAA that introduces the people...