The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) announce an open call for a year-long museum fellowship programme developed to educate a new generation of art and museum professionals in Africa. The Zeitz MOCAA & University of the Western Cape (UWC) Museum Fellowship Programme aims to foster the growth of curatorial practice as well as advance scholarship on contemporary art discourse from the continent.

2024 marks the third year of this pan-African programme, which endeavours to increase knowledge production around curatorial practice, arts administration and heritage management. It offers fellows exposure to museum practice facilitated by Zeitz MOCAA senior staff and is underpinned by academic rigour in art, heritage and museum scholarship facilitated by the University of the Western Cape’s Department of Historical Studies.

Zeitz MOCAA continues to position itself as a civic space – as an active agent that ca...