Gallery 1957, Accra presents motionEmotion, an exhibition of paintings, installation and performance by contemporary Nigerian artist Chidi Kwubiri. motionEmotion is the culmination of a lifelong dream of Chidi Kwubiri’s, in which he speaks to the power of music on the creative soul. The exhibition which features large canvases and two conceptual installations reflects on the spirit […]
From April 12 till June 7, 2018, Gallery 1957 will present Almost True, a collaborative exhibition of works by African artists Michael Soi and Bright Ackwerh. The exhibition explores satire within a public setting. The value of satire is often seen to only entertain, however, it is a route to highlight sensitive social, political, religious and […]
Gallery 1957, Ghana presents The Stories I tell Myself, an exhibition of paintings by contemporary African-American artist Florine Demosthene. The exhibition sees Demosthene transform the uniformed gallery space into a personalised setting. Maroon coloured walls, resembling a boudoir, make the public space private, creating both a sense of intimacy and intrusion. Small-scale works with highly decorated, […]
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Florine Demosthene was born in the United States and raised between Port-au-Prince, Haiti and New York. She has spent the past four years living and working across Africa. Demosthene explores themes surrounding race and gender and uses her own identity to re-evaluate the socio-political structures and conditions that surround Black female sexuality and physicality today. […]
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Joseph Ashong fondly known as Paa Joe is considered one of the most important Ghanaian fantasy coffin artists of his generation. Born in 1947 in the Akwapim region, Greater Accra Region in Ghana, he belongs to the Ga-Adangbe people. At 15, Paa Joe began a ten-year apprenticeship with his uncle, Kane Kwei in Teshie. In […]
Artistic director of the Accra Theatre Workshop, Elisabeth Efua Sutherland was born in Accra, Ghana in 1991. She holds a BA in theatre with a minor in education studies from DePauw University (2013) and an MA in contemporary performance making from Brunel University, London (2016). In 2016, Efua was an artist-in-residence at the Google Cultural […]
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From November 21, 2017, to January 12, 2018, Gallery 1957, Accra presents Akԑ yaaa heko | One does not take it anywhere, a collaborative project between renowned fantasy coffin maker Paa Joe and performance artist Elisabeth Efua Sutherland. Coinciding with Paa Joe’s 70th birthday (and marking his 40th year in the coffin trade), the exhibition […]
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From June 29 to August 15, 2017, Gallery 1957 will present All That Glitters by Ghanaian artist Yaw Owusu. Through his socially engaged and visually rich practice, the artist questions the failures of Ghana’s ongoing infrastructural development. Owusu creates sculptural installations that repurpose found objects, shifting the value of otherwise worthless materials into things of […]
The month of June comes with a selection of highly anticipated exhibitions at Africa’s leading art galleries that shouldn’t be missed. Gary Stephens Pleated Everard Read Gallery June 1 to June 24 Everard Read Gallery is pleased to present Pleated by South African artist Gary Stephens. Monumental in scale, the artist’s portraits pay homage to […]
From August 7 to September 30, 2017, Gallery 1957 will present a new body of work by Ghanaian artist Godfried Donkor. The artist’s new body of work reimagines an illustration by the 19th century English explorer Thomas Bowdich, now held in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London and thought to be the first recorded image […]