The “sudden and premature” demise of his curator by 2026, Koyo Kouah, shakes the Venice Biennale | Culture | EUROtoday

The commissioner of the subsequent Venice Art Biennial, the Cameroonian-Suiza Koyo Kouah, has died at age 57, in line with final Saturday the cultural entity itself, which qualifies the disappearance of “sudden and premature.” At the start of final December the Biennial introduced that Koyo Kouah can be liable for organizing in 2026 that creative occasion that may attain its 61st version.

“His death leaves an immense emptiness in the world of contemporary art and in the international community of artists, commissioners and experts, who have appreciated their extraordinary intellectual and human commitment,” provides the biennial. Koyo Kouah was particularly identified for his exhibitions about feminism and his consideration for Africa. The Venetian Biennial stated 5 months in the past that her appointment meant to signify “the recognition of a broad horizon and the emergence of a generous day of new words and eyes.”

Born in 1967 in Cameroon and raised in Switzerland, Kouah was a acknowledged artist within the African and worldwide panorama with quite a few publications and exhibitions in the primary cities and museums all over the world. Since 2019 she held the place of government director of the Zeiz Museum of African Contemporary Art in Cabo del Cape, in South Africa, and in 2020 she obtained the Grand Prix Meret Out of Letury from Switzerland.

The Venice Biennale is likely one of the most related creative occasions and is split into sectors: in 2025 it will likely be targeted on structure, directed by the Italian engineer Carlo Ratti, and in 2026 in artwork.