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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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