Exhibitions

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

Nabeeha Mohamed - Tending Bell Flowers

London 27 Oct - 2 Dec 2023 In this body of work “tending” becomes a sight of individual and collective tenderness, in a blossoming visual garden springing from a poetics and imagining of care and (self)recovery. Consisting of paintings and sculptural works, Mohamed’s exhibition feels like an evocative visual call to action towards self-care and self-preservation through... 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

Yaw Owusu - Everything You Touch is Gold

Gallery II, Accra 16 Sep - 28 Oct 2023 Yaw Owusu’s ‘Everything You Touch Is Gold’ at Gallery 1957 comprises a series of coins on wooden panels and canvas which in their intriguing interplay of colour, texture and abstract patterns call to mind the traditional craftsmanship of Ghanaian kente. Just as traditional wax-resist dyeing of fabric makes use of... Read more

The Evil Genius, Curated by Mr Eazi

Gallery III, Accra 13 - 26 Sep 2023 ‘The Evil Genius’, will be the inaugural event for Accra Cultural Week 2023. The show is a multi-sensory experience of African music & visual art curated by Mr Eazi, who has commissioned 13 artists to produce works in response to the singles from his debut solo album. The travelling exhibition... Read more

Priscilla Kennedy - A Thousand Disguises

Gallery I, Accra 1 Sep - 13 Oct 2023 It is also of utmost importance to recognize the unique nuances of gender issues across cultures, avoiding the tendency to generalize experiences worldwide. This is especially evident when examining the diverse textile traditions found in Ghana. While Western textile traditions, such as weaving and needlework, historically served as tools for... Read more

WonderBuhle - Inkunzi Isematholeni

London 1 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 The show takes its name from a Zulu idiom which literally translates as how the calf is raised will determine the quality of the bull and metaphorically emphasizes the artist’s belief in nurturing the youth and new generations as they become society’s future leaders. This is the artist’s first solo... Read more

Nana Bruce - Love Story: Dancing Hearts

Gallery II, Accra 3 - 31 Aug 2023 Love Story: Dancing Hearts is a heartfelt collection of paintings created in the acrylic medium, inspired by the poetic voice through which reality as an impulse is processed and shared by all whether they be conscious or unconscious of it. Within this collection, Bruce shares stories in paintings as a... Read more

Tegene Kunbi - Meeting Points and Holding On

29 Jun - 12 Aug 2023 “Art is a reflection on life. Life isn't something we can cut and fix. It's always in a state of flux.” - El Anatsui Tegene Kunbi’s works produced at the recent Gallery 1957 residency are visual sensation statements of idiosyncratic polychromatic painterly patterns sharpened with remarkable voice. Born in Addis... Read more

Kofi Agorsor - Tudɛvie (Calling)

Gallery III, Accra 15 Jun - 13 Jul 2023 Gallery 1957 is pleased to present Kofi Agorsor: Tudɛvie (Calling), a special collection of slow-growth sculptures that the artist has been developing for over a decade. The sculptures are complemented by a cluster of the kind of paintings that Agorsor is known for, to connect his established art to his... Read more

Unlimited II

Galleria Mall, Third Floor, Kempinski Hotel Gold Coast, Accra 15 Jun - 12 Aug 2023 Gallery 1957 is pleased to present UNLIMITED II . The first edition of UNLIMITED in 2022 showcased works which grappled with a creative humanisation of locality and this sentiment continues down an adjacent path through the bounds and ties that bind in UNLIMITED II . The second iteration of this... Read more

Godfried Donkor - Battle Royale II: Pantheon of Champions

London 2 Jun - 12 Aug 2023 Following his 2019 solo exhibition in Ghana Battle Royale I: Last Man Standing, the show features a new body of work from his recent residency with the gallery in Accra. Battle Royale marks the culmination of over 20 years of research by Donkor into colonialism, slavery, intercontinental trade relationships and... Read more

Rita Mawuena Benissan - In the World not of the World

Gallery II, Accra 12 May - 27 Jul 2023 Ceremonial umbrellas have been a documented part of Asante custom since at least the 18th century. As early as 1701, a Dutch emissary was versed enough in their importance to come bearing one as a gift on his first visit to the Asante king. A form of regalia reserved only... Read more

Daniel Arnan Quarshie - Sympathetic Magic

Gallery III, Accra 7 Apr - 19 May 2023 Gallery 1957 is proud to present Daniel Arnan Quarshie’s first solo exhibition Sympathetic Magic ; a title that reveals all together in its dichotomy the unprecedented sense of dramatic beauty captured in Quarshie’s artworks. In Sympathy is Quarshie’s melancholic portrait of intimacy and celebration of life. His elaboration of old... Read more

Tiffanie Delune - There’s Gold on The Palms of My Hands

Gallery II, Accra 29 Mar - 3 May 2023 The Paris-born visual artist of French, Belgo-Congolese heritage, has lived in many places and resides now in Lisbon, Portugal. During one of our conversations, Tiffanie Delune generously shares with me that Lisbon is the place where she feels ‘most at home’. There is a lot of resilience in how she... Read more

Salah Elmur - Central Electricity and Water Administration

London 16 Mar - 10 May 2023 Gallery 1957 and Vigo Gallery are proud to collaborate on a joint exhibition and publication of monumental new paintings, set across both London galleries, by Cairo-based Sudanese artist Salah Elmur (Sudan, 1966) . Central Electricity and Water Administration will be the artist’s second solo show with Gallery 1957 following An... Read more

Group Show Artemartis - When The Birds Fly Home

Gallery I, Accra 7 Feb - 31 Mar 2023 Gallery 1957 is pleased to collaborate with Artemartis to present an exhibition of recent paintings by Abdur Rahman Muhammad, Araba Opoku, Awanle Ayiboro Hawa Ali, Courage Hunke, Efia Serwah Barning, James Mishio, Joshua Oheneba-Takyi, Kwaku Owusu Osei Achim and Kwaku Yaro. In the heart of Dansoman, Accra, next to a... Read more

Peter Ojingiri - Encountering the Disrupted pt. 2

London 2 Feb - 8 Mar 2023 Further to Peter Ojingiri’s solo exhibition Encountering the Disrupted , (Accra, 2022), Gallery 1957 is proud to present a continuation of the same body of work, expanding unto the artist’s most recent experimentations. Ojingiri deepens the subject of The Disrupted, previously defined in his paintings as those who remained home... Read more

Jonathan Okoronkwo - Some Things Stay Broken

Gallery II, Accra 14 Dec 2022 - 9 Feb 2023 Objects are explained entirely by the human attempt to achieve human ends, and not by the unavoidable need to adapt ourselves to the objects around us, whose very existence, as such, requires we enter into relationships with them largely on their terms and not ours. -Ron Richardson, 2020. The Agency... Read more

Arthur Timothy - Postcards from a Promised Land

London 9 Dec 2022 - 28 Jan 2023 Painted from family holiday pictures taken from 1985 until the present day, Timothy’s new series presents Sierra Leone as a country in an ongoing state of renewal. Depicting abandoned buildings reclaimed by nature, alongside snapshots of neighbours hurrying to church services, Timothy’s reflections on the structures, people, and natural landscape... Read more

Chiderah Bosah - A Solemn Chronicle of Believers

Gallery III, Accra 2 Dec 2022 - 18 Jan 2023 Gallery 1957 is pleased to announce A Solemn Chronicle of Believers , a solo exhibition by Nigerian born artist, Chiderah Bosah. Following a four-month residency in Accra, A Solemn Chronicle of Believers continues through the 5th of January 2023. This body of work finds strength in surrender, and remaining faithful... Read more