STEVEN COHEN: LONG LIFE (career-spanning retrospective)

🗓️ Opening 11 December 2025 | 📍Cape Town

Iziko Museums of South Africa is proud to present a bold, career-spanning retrospective of one of South Africa’s most provocative and pioneering artists.

From Steven Cohen’s early textile works, to uninvited public interventions and haunting performances for stage, the exhibition represents the breadth of a profoundly influential career.

Cohen’s work is about love, loss, identity, and remembrance. In Jewish tradition, to say “I wish you a long life” to the bereaved is a message of condolence and hope.

This exhibition honours that sentiment – inviting you to reflect, feel, and witness a life lived through art.

Curated by Anthea Buys
Supported by the Embassy of France in South Africa, Lesotho & Malawi, the French Institute of South Africa, and Institut Français in Paris.

📩 Press enquiries: Melody Kleinsmith | mediaofficer@iziko.org.za