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Zeitz MOCAA

(Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa)

Cape Town, South Africa

Opening September 22, 2017

(Grand Public Opening Weekend: Sept. 22 to Sept. 25, free for everyone)

Widely considered as the most significant museum to be built on the African

continent in more than 100 years, Zeitz MOCAA will sit on Cape Town’s Victoria &

Alfred Waterfront and occupy a historic grain silo complex originally built in 1921.

Previously the tallest building in Cape Town for half a century, this grain silo played

a vital role in the country’s agricultural economy. Developers of Zeitz MOCAA hope

to honor it as an historic landmark all while physically and conceptually reinventing

it as a non-for-profit cultural institution dedicated to serve the public and epitomize

civic significance.

Zeitz MOCAA is a collaborative achievement between Jochen Zeitz and the

V&A Waterfront, as well as Executive Director and Chief Curator Mark Coetzee,

and Heatherwick Studio. The 100,000-square-foot museum will cover nine floors

and feature 80 galleries with a mission to collect, preserve, research and exhibit

cutting-edge Contemporary art from Africa and beyond.

Museum Barberini

Potsdam, Germany

Opened January 2017

Featured Exhibition:

From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to Modern Art

June 17, 2017 to October 3, 2017

Opening its doors in January 2017, Museum Barberini is a new museum with

an already rich history. Barberini’s founding collection comes from billionaire German

businessman and art collector Hasso Plattner. It houses paintings such as Edvard

Munch’s

Girls on the Bridge (1899)

, sold in November 2016 for $54.5 million, and

part of the inaugural exhibition Modern Art Classics: Liebermann, Munch, Nolde,

Kandinsky (until May 28) as well as Impressionist and modern artworks.

The palatial museum was built on the location where Palais Barberini, named

after Palazzo Barberini in Rome, was destroyed in a 1945 air attack and has restored

the palace’s architectural facade to its exact original dimensions. With exhibitions already

planned for the next two years, in June, From Hopper to Rothko: America’s Road to

Modern Art will feature 78 pieces from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.,

focused on the progression of art from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism.

Museum MACAN

(Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara)

Jakarta, Indonesia

Scheduled to open November 2017

“While there is a thriving Contemporary art scene in Indonesia, there has

never been a museum here like Museum MACAN,” says Aaron Seeto, director of

the ambitious 43,000-square-foot, under-construction museum that will provide

public access to a significant and growing collection of art from Indonesia and the

rest of the world.

Built and financed by Indonesian businessman and collector Haryanto

Adikoesoemo, Museum MACAN will be home to his collection of over 800 artworks

acquired over the past 25 years.

“In addition to making our founder’s significant collection of international

modern and contemporary artworks accessible, we are committed to curating

and presenting a diverse exhibition program, and supporting artists in the creation of

new work,” Seeto tells Homes & Estates. “Museum MACAN will be a key contributor

to the cultural ecology of Indonesia and will place Indonesian art further in dialogue

with the world, and vice versa.”

MU S E UM OPE N I NGS

Zeitz MOCCA

Aaron Seeto

Mohau Modisakeng,

Ditaola (Frame V)

, 2014.

Edward Hopper,

Sunday

, 1926.

Museum Barberini

COURTESY PHILLIPS COLLECTION, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Preliminary rendering of the exterior of Museum MACAN.

COURTESY M. MODISAKENG