2015 Conference Speaker | Mark Coetzee
2015 Conference Speaker | Mark Coetzee
Artist, art historian and writer | Executive Director & Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA
As an acclaimed artist in his own right, as well as a prolific writer and recognised art historian, Mark’s career has included distinguished positions as Director of the Rubell Family Collection in Miami and Program Director of PUMAVision. Due to open its doors at the end of 2016, the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) – based on the Victoria and Albert Waterfront in Cape Town – will become South Africa’s first museum of contemporary art. As Executive Director and Chief Curator, Mark’s mission is to tell the many stories of modern Africa through collecting, preserving, researching and exhibiting contemporary art from across the continent.