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Cape Town to become Africa’s modern art hub with the Zeitz museum ?

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The Zeitz Museum is about to put Cape Town’s art scene on the map. Cap Town is becoming a cultural hub thanks to its thriving gallery district, annual art fair, and from September, its world-class museum: The Zeitz.

Already a hub for artists, the upcoming opening of the 100,000-square-foot Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art at the Waterfront will change the art scene on the continent. Designed by British architect Thomas Heatherwick, it will be the biggest public art space to open on the continent for more than a century.

 

Cape Town’s art galleries

Goodman Gallery
  • Goodman Gallery is one of South Africa’s premier art spaces (Michael Hall)
  • “Blank Projects, w works with emerging young southern African artists
  • The Goodman Gallery, arguably South Africa’s most successful private art space.
Southern Guild
  • Southern Guild, the continent’s best-known collectable design gallery

Stevenson gallery displays high-end contemporary art from all over the continent (Stevenson Gallery)

The South African art industry is becoming increasingly more powerful and stable.
The new Zeitz Museum will doubtless add clout to that voice. The brainchild of the German-born ex-Puma director Jochem Zeitz, the museum’s permanent exhibition will be taken from his personal collection and made up of artwork from Africa and the diaspora since the year 2000.

Zeitz allows us as Africans to tell our story and preserve what we have. It is time for Africa to bring back some of the paintings, sculptures and photographs that have been taken out of the continent, because they deserve to be on the mother land.

As the world’s first art institution to exclusively document modern life in Africa, Zeitz Mocaa has an essential role to play in allowing Africans to tell their own story.

 

Source: Independent

Author: Gova-Media