Zeitz MOCAA presents A Protea Is Not a Flower , an exhibition with Lerato Shadi and Robin Rhode responding to the life and works of Gerard Sekoto, Bessie Head and Don Mattera. Curated by Zeitz MOCAA’s Khanyi Mawhayi, the exhibition opens on 16 October 2025 and runs until 15 November 2026. A Protea Is Not a Flower is a multigenerational conversation between South African artists and writers whose lives and works contend with the complexity of the exilic experience.