Beata America: Curator Biography
Assistant Curator, Zeitz MOCAA
Photo Ramiie G
BEATA AMERICA (b. 1994, South Africa) is an Assistant Curator at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa. She holds a Diploma in Classical music, from Stellenbosch University (2012 - 2015) and a BA Humanities Degree from Stellenbosch University (2016 - 2018), as well as an Honours in Curatorship through the Centre for Curating the Archive, at the University of Cape Town’s Michaelis School of Fine Art (2019).
During her time at Zeitz MOCAA, America has assisted and conducted research for several exhibitions: Only Sun in the Sky Knows How I Feel – (A Lucid Dream) (2021), Soft Vxnxs (2022), Shooting Down Babylon (2022), Indigo Waves & Other Stories: Re-Navigating the Afrasian Sea and Notions of Diaspora (2022), the Zeitz MOCAA Atelier residency by Igshaan Adams titled Not Working (Working Title) (2022), When We See Us: A Century of Black Figuration in Painting (2022), Past Disquiet (2023), Seismography of Struggle: Towards a Global History of Critical and Cultural Journals (2023), as well as co-curated Seekers, Seers, Soothsayers (2023) with Tandazani Dhlakama. She has also assisted and contributed to publications that have accompanied these exhibitions. Most recently, she curated The Other Side of Now, a solo exhibition of Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, which opened in August 2024 at Zeitz MOCAA.
Beata America curated Rita Mawuena Benissan: One Must Be Seated, which is currently on view at Zeitz MOCAA (13 November 2024 - 5 October 2025)
In 2020, she co-founded the art wine collective Processus with partner Megan van der Merwe, a curator and winemaker collaboration which explores wine as an ephemeral art object and the artistic processes therein.
Biography courtesy of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
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