Advancing Contemporary Art from and about Africa and its Diaspora
American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA (AFOZM) is a non-profit non-political organization aligned with Zeitz MOCAA, the preeminent contemporary art museum on the African continent.
American Friends of Zeitz MOCAA (AFOZM) was founded in 2017 alongside Zeitz MOCAA's opening in South Africa. Our mission is to advance contemporary art from and about Africa and its Diaspora.
We do this by advocating for and supporting African creativity and its production through our membership and granting programs. We are Americans who support contemporary art from and about Africa.
“We are turning the dialogue of contemporary art from and about Africa and its Diaspora on its axis.”
Koyo Kouoh, Exective Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA
Announcements
Welcome Jessica Nowitzki
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) is honoured to announce the appointment of Jessica Nowitzki to its Board of Trustees. A respected US-based arts professional, philanthropist, and member of the Zeitz MOCAA Global Council, of Kenyan and Swedish descent, Nowitzki has long been dedicated to promoting cultural exchange between Africa and the international art community.
Upcoming Exhibitions
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On View: October 10, 2026 - March 28, 2028
Co-curated by Nathalie Viruly, and Dr Greer Valley, and supported by Bulelwa Kunene, Angela Muritu and Emme Pretorius, will be on view from 1 October 2026 to 28 March 2028 on Level 2 Elevator Side. The project is an artist-led studio residency that hosts Cape Town publishing collectives in Zeitz MOCAA’s Koyo Kouoh Atelier. The residency positions publishing not as a supplementary outcome of artistic practice, but as its central condition and method. Convening the collectives (B)and Wi(d)th, Medupi Publishing, and Creative Knowledge Resources, the Atelier unfolds a series of working spaces where research, production, and circulation are made tangible, expanding publishing beyond the book to include sound, performance, ephemera, and transmission. The residencies, lasting between three to six months, are extended through an extensive and experimental public programme developed in collaboration with the 2026 University of Western Cape and Zeitz MOCAA Fellows Drawing on these propositions and histories of self-publishing as tools for organising, dissent, and the shaping of subcultures, the Atelier therefore becomes a site of continuous addition and revision, where ideas remain in flux and permeable to its readership. Visitors encounter publishing as a medium that insists on its publicness, embraces contingency, and foregrounds the social and political forms found within. This exhibition is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Turning Towards the Sun
On View: Decmber 10, 2026 - August 15, 2027
Curated by Khanyi Mawhayi supported by Dr Phokeng Setai and Dr Greer Valley and assisted by Angela Muritu, Inshaaf Jamodien and Evyn Banawoye, will be on view from 10 December 2026 to 15 August 2027 on Level 4. This multimedia exhibition presents film and media arts from Africa and its diaspora and is inspired by the ideals of Pan-African solidarities. It brings together five artists and filmmakers to explore moving image-making and collective practice on the continent and what Koyo Kouoh called the wider Black geographies of the 21st century. Brought together through the African Film and Media Arts Collective (AFMAC) and led by Julie Mehretu and Mehret Mandefro, the exhibition presents five commissioned films by Ethiopian director Zeresenay Berhane Mehari, Senegalese filmmaker Mati Diop, Kenyan multidisciplinary artist Jim Chuchu, Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu, and The Otolith Group, an interdisciplinary artist collective based in London. This exhibition is presented in collaboration with the African Film and Media Arts Collective (AFMAC) and BMW.
