Slow Look: ‘Noir’ (2013), Mouna Karray

by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices

#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we focus on Tunisian-born artist Mouna Karray’s series of photographs titled Noir (2013). In the series, we see a figure, staged in a...

#MoloMOCAA: Mandisa Ngqulana

by Danielle Olivier | Jun 30, 2020 | MOCAA Voices

#MoloMOCAA is our series in which we meet the people who work at and visit the museum: My name is Mandisa Ngqulana, and I am the Museum Educator at Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Arts Education. I got to thinking recently about Billie Holiday’s version of the song Strange...

#MOCAASlowLook: ‘Runaways (1993)’ by Glenn Ligon

by Danielle Olivier | Jun 5, 2020 | MOCAA Voices

#MOCAASlowLook is an opportunity to take a moment and look a little deeper at selected artworks exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA. This month, we look at US-born artist Glenn Ligon’s series of lithographs, Runaways (1993). Ligon explores the history of slavery, racial...

Shaping Our Work For An Uncomfortable New World

by Danielle Olivier | Jun 5, 2020 | MOCAA Voices

– By Liesl Hartman, Head of Zeitz MOCAA’s Centre for Art Education Museums are educational institutions accustomed to a specifically physical interface with our visitors. We, like many other museums, consider our gallery environment more than a workspace...

#MoloMOCAA: Siseko Maweyi

by Danielle Olivier | Jun 4, 2020 | MOCAA Voices

When you think of a museum, what picture comes to mind? Beautiful or interesting art? A unique building? Engaging programming? You wouldn’t be wrong if those were your answers, but it’s also people. This is the first in our series #MoloMOCAA that introduces the people...