{"id":635059,"date":"2026-08-13T13:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635059\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T13:27:12","slug":"elvira-dyangani-ose-appointed-artistic-director-of-cape-towns-zeitz-mocaa-the-art-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635059\/","title":{"rendered":"Elvira Dyangani Ose appointed artistic director of Cape Town’s Zeitz MoCAA – The Art Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elvira Dyangani Ose, the former director of\u00a0the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), has been appointed the artistic director of\u00a0Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MoCAA) in Cape Town. She replaces Koyo Kouoh, the former executive director and chief curator, who died last year<\/a>, and will take up the post in October.<\/p>\n

Zeitz MoCAA exhibits, collects, preserves and researches contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora, according to its website. \u201cUnder [Dyangani Ose’s] artistic leadership, Zeitz MoCAA will continue to present bold contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora,\u201d the institution said in a statement.<\/p>\n

As part of the appointment, the Zeitz MoCAA has changed the former job title of \u201cchief curator\u201d to \u201cartistic director\u201d. \u201cDuring the process, we identified that we would split the roles to have one person focusing on the creative, artistic, and culture of the organisation\u2014Elvira Dyangani Ose, working alongside another person looking after the operations, finances and corporate governance, and that is Fawaz Mustapha, managing director,\u2019 said\u00a0David Green,\u00a0Zeitz Mocaa co-founder and co-chair, at a press briefing. \u201cThis will be a joint leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously,\u00a0Dyangani\u00a0Ose was the director of the Showroom London\u00a0and held curatorial roles at Creative Time<\/a>\u00a0in New York and at Tate Modern\u00a0where she contributed to the development of the institution\u2019s first strategy for collecting art from Africa and its diaspora, a statement says. She served as a curator at the Centro Atl\u00e1ntico de Arte Moderno in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. Dyangani\u00a0Ose is also a doctoral candidate in the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University in New York.<\/p>\n

According to the Spanish newspaper El Pa\u00eds<\/a>,\u00a0Dyangani\u00a0Ose’s tenure at Macba was cut short after the museum\u2019s governing body ruled that her new role as director of the second Abu Dhabi Public Art Biennial, which opens in October, was \u201cincompatible\u201d with her post. Earlier this year, she resigned as a member of the Venice Biennale jury<\/a> over the participation of Russian and Israel.<\/p>\n

The founding collection of Zeitz MoCAA, which opened in September 2017<\/a>, is made up of the holdings of Jochen Zeitz, the former chief executive of Puma. The Thomas Heatherwick-designed museum, housed in a waterfront grain silo complex, was hailed as a landmark institution for the study and acquisition of contemporary African art.<\/p>\n

Mark Coetzee, who died in 2022, was the inaugural executive director and chief curator at Zeitz MoCAA. In 2019, he was suspended from his role<\/a> at the museum following claims of misconduct. Coetzee resigned and took his employers to court; Kouoh was subsequently appointed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elvira Dyangani Ose, the former director of\u00a0the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Macba), has been appointed the artistic…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[267],"tags":[3312,11553,365,362,363,364,366,18,268447,117,19,17,4504,7599,5258,268446],"class_list":["post-635059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-appointments","tag-appointments-departures","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-eire","tag-elvira-dyangani-ose","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-museums","tag-museums-heritage","tag-south-africa","tag-zeitz-mocaa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117088435915575409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}