Cape Town, South Africa

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA)

Zeitz MOCAA opened in 2017 on Cape Town's waterfront as the largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. It was created to give the continent's contemporary artists a major institution within Africa itself, rather than seeing the field defined elsewhere. Its building is a landmark of adaptive reuse: a historic concrete grain silo carved out by designer Thomas Heatherwick to create a soaring, cathedral-like central atrium and a honeycomb of galleries above. The program presents the diversity of twenty-first-century African practice across painting, sculpture, photography, performance, and new media. Zeitz MOCAA's relevance lies in its mission and scale — it has rapidly become a flagship for contemporary African art and a symbol of the continent's growing presence in the global art conversation.

Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa is a public non-profit museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Zeitz MOCAA opened on September 22, 2017 as the largest museum of contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. The museum is located in the Silo District at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in Cape Town. A retail and hospitality property, the Waterfront receives around 24 million local and international visitors per year. Source: Wikipedia