Koyo Kouoh in South Africa in 2023 Tsele Nthane for The New York Times
(2026) A Curator Died Suddenly. Could the Art World’s Most Important Event Be Saved? Koyo Kouoh, who died of cancer at 57, was just months into her dream job overseeing the Venice Biennale’s centerpiece exhibition. But she left a plan that her assistants have tried to realize. https://archive.is/MASdy#selection-4483.0-4487.192
Koyo Kouoh (24 December 1967 – 10 May 2025) was a Cameroonian-Swiss art curator who served as Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, from 2019 onwards. In 2015, The New York Times described her as "one of Africa's pre-eminent art curators and managers", and from 2014 to 2022, she was annually named one of the 100 most influential people in the contemporary art world by ArtReview. via W















