A Cameroon-born curator, Koyo Kouoh, has been reported dead.

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The tragic incidence is said to have happened in Switzerland with the cause of death yet to be made public.

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Eulogizing the late curator, South African artist Candice Breitz described Kouoh as "magnificently intelligent, endlessly energetic and formidably elegant".

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Otobong Nkanga, a Nigerian visual artist, called the late curator a source of "warmth, generosity and brilliance".Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni also spoke of Kouoh's impact, saying her passing "leaves a void in the world of contemporary art".Kouoh's colourful life began in 1967, when she was born in Cameroon, a Central African country with a rich artistic heritage.

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She grew up in the country's largest city, Douala, before moving to Switzerland aged 13.

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There, she studied business administration and banking but, in a pivotal moment, chose not to pursue finance as a career.

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"I am fundamentally uninterested in profit," she explained in a 2023 interview with the New York Times.

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Rather than building on her degree, Kouoh assisted migrant women as a social worker and began to immerse herself in the world of art.Koyo Kouoh's death leaves a deep void in the global art world, but her legacy lives on through the institutions she shaped and counless artists she championed.

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Sympathizers are yet to be informed about plans for her burial and final rites, as the art world continue to mourn her passing.

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