Our Stories of
wonder

It’s hard to believe that it’s just a decade since Babylonstoren first opened its doors in the Franschhoek Valley near Stellenbosch.

Don’t be fooled by the pint-sized stature of Turkish-born but Cape Town-based creative Yelda Bayraktar.

With an international career spanning two decades, South African artist and sculptor Dylan Lewis’s works are beloved, acclaimed and highly collectable because of the magnificence with which his sculptures capture the form of wild animals, towering mythological figures and fragmented beings.

When you consider that historically Africa’s cultural narrative has largely been told by outsiders and that some of the continent’s best artworks have long languished in private collections, the extraordinary importance of what businessman and philanthropist, Jochen Zeitz has set out to do with the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA) packs a positive punch.