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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.

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Zeitz MOCCA

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Mohau Modisakeng, Ditaola (Frame V) , 2014.

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.”

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Preliminary rendering of the exterior of Museum MACAN.

Aaron Seeto

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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.

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Edward Hopper, Sunday , 1926.

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