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Kelvin Haizel - We Do Not Sleep To Dream
Gallery III, Accra 25 Jan - 14 Apr 2024 PV: Thursday 25th January 2024 Haizel's approach to abstraction borrows aesthetics from local paint shop environments, wherein different surfaces exist as a swatch board for paint samples. The inspiration and process behind these works is accumulative and imbued with a spirit of existential inquiry. In the introduction to ‘Decolonising the... Read more -
Larry Amponsah - Mastery might be a long way off, but the flow state induced by floristry is profoundly rewarding
Gallery II, Accra 15 Dec 2023 - 1 Mar 2024 PV: Thursday 14th December 2023 This new body of work is curated by Katherine Finerty and follows a four-month residency with the gallery in the artist's hometown of Accra. Through the practice of image-making as architectural horticulture, Larry Amponsah cultivates new interior worlds by collecting and combining found imagery that... Read more -
Aplerh-Doku Borlabi - Uncaged and Watered
London 8 Dec 2023 - 27 Jan 2024 PV: Thursday 7th December 2023, 6-8pm The show features a new body of work created during the artist’s recent residency with the gallery in London and draws on expressions of liberation from social restrictions. Through a process of collaging different elements of vegetation, plants, and furniture, Borlabi has produced figures... Read more -
Kwaku Yaro - Look at What You’ve Seen
Gallery I, Accra 9 Nov 2023 - 4 Jan 2024 In the heart of Labadi, a coastal fishing community nestled along Ghana’s Atlantic Ocean's edge, lies the inspiration for this extraordinary exhibition. Within this predominantly tranquil and unassuming environment, an artist of singular vision has emerged, reshaping the boundaries of perception and provoking questions about the very act of seeing... Read more -
Famakan Magassa - Money Money Money
Gallery III, Accra 20 Oct 2023 - 4 Jan 2024 The exhibition follows a residency with the gallery in Accra and each painting emphasises moments of irony. Contending the different levels of socioeconomic exchange, the 2023 Norval Sovereign African Art Prize winner reflects on art’s relationship to theft and violence, to privacy and togetherness and to the ways we engage... Read more -
In and Out of Time, Curated by Ekow Eshun
Third Floor, Galleria Mall, Accra 16 Sep 2023 - 4 Jan 2024 Drawing from the Ghanaian concept of Sankofa - to return to the past in order to move forward - the exhibition explores African cultural notions of non-linear time and brings together both established and emerging contemporary artists from across Africa and the diaspora. The exhibition gathers new artworks from a... Read more