Koyo Kouoh obituary

Cameroon-born art curator appointed last year as the director of the 2026 Venice BiennaleAt a conference held at London’s Somerset House as part of the 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in 2015, the name of the organiser came up again and again. “Koyo Kouoh,” hooted an Iranian participant to her eager audience. “We need to have her cloned.”Over the decade that followed, it seemed as though this might actually have happened. Kouoh, who has died aged 57 after being d