DEKAT DIGITAL 2019 - 2020

The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) in Cape Town is the most
prominent of some very important new museums focusing on Contemporary African Art.
Designed by Thomas Heatherwick in a spectacularly repurposed historic grain silo, it is
included in Artsy’s list of 20 Essential Pilgrimages to Inspiring Art Destinations. Its exhibition
programme centres primarily on work from African countries, the most recent show being
Five Bhobh: Painting at the End of an Era, which featured contemporary art from Zimbabwe.
The most recent museum to open its doors is the Museum of African Contemporary Art in
Al Maaden, Morocco (MACAAL), which showcases art from Morocco and neighbouring
countries across a range of media, and engages in a dialogue across the continent with
African and international artists.
Long-established museums such as The Africa Center in New York (formerly known as The Museum for African
Art) and the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC, carry the torch of
Contemporary African Art in the Americas with such exhibitions as Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic
Systems in African Art (2007) and Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa (2014).
Jean Pigozzi’s Contemporary African Art Collection, curated by Andre Magnin, has found a permanent home
at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, after wide exposure at the Tate Modern in London, The Pompidou
Centre in Paris, the Guggenheim Bilbao, the Cartier Foundation in Paris, the Saatchi Gallery in London and,
most recently, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.
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