Can she revive the largest museum on the African continent?
Koyo Kouoh wasnt thinking about becoming an art world player when she finished her degree in business administration in Zurich in her early 20s.
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Koyo Kouoh wasnt thinking about becoming an art world player when she finished her degree in business administration in Zurich in her early 20s.
“There was a feeling that we cannot let this fail,” Koyo Kouoh said of taking the top job at Zeitz MOCAA. She wants to make it relevant to the Pan-African world and beyond.
Botswana-Based artist Thebe Phetogo paints With shoe polish to subvert the history of blackface.
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Comprising paintings in dialogue with large-scale wall-based and suspended photographic images, A Making of Ghosts, which opens 14 April20 May 2