On June 24, 2017, Jack Shainman Gallery will present The Coffins of Paa Joe and the Pursuit of Happiness, by Ghanaian artist Joseph Ashong, well known as Paa Joe. Serving as the centerpiece of the large-scale exhibition, The Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe honour the Ghanaian legacy of abebuu adekai, or fantasy coffins. The ornate sarcophagi […]
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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 […]
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 […]
From May 5 to 27, 2017, LKB/G will present Arising African Perspectives by South African artists Mxolisi Vusi Beauchamp and Io Makandal, and Ghanaian artist Gideon Appah. The gallery aims to establish a unique platform of exhibiting art from the Global South in Germany. Io Makandal, born 1987 in Johannesburg, South Africa, holds a bachelor […]
From May 3 to September 3, 2017, New Museum, New York will present Under – Song for a Cipher by Ghanaian artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. This exhibition brings together a selection of works by the artist, a 2013 Turner Prize finalist and one of the most renowned painters of her generation. Yiadom-Boakye’s lush oil paintings embrace […]