Exhibitions

Kwesi Botchway - The Sun Must Come Down

The French Protestant Church of London, 8 - 9 Soho Square, London, W1D 3QD 7 - 12 Oct 2024 Curated by Azu Nwagbogu, the interdisciplinary experience will take place over one week in the French Protestant Church of London, invoking a sense of fellowship and community with a harmonising performance by London Community Gospel Choir at 7:30pm on the opening night on Monday 7th October. Renowned for his seamless... Read more

Johannes Phokela - Mineral Awesome: Ode to the fountain of Zama Zama

Gallery II, Accra 24 Sep - 15 Oct 2024 This new body of work closely follows Only Sun the Sky Knows How I Feel (A Lucid Dream), Phokela’s major solo exhibition at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa, which shed light on his practice, process, thinking and intentions, and was organised around the artist’s obsessive engagement with pictures and... Read more

Constellations Part 2 : Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space

Co - curated by Nuna Adisenu - Doe, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, and Katherine Finerty 1 Aug - 10 Oct 2024 Artists participating in this group show include those collaborating with the gallery for the first time; Clifford Bright Abu, Abdul-Salam Alhassan, Akosua Odeibea Amoah-Yeboah, Dela Anyah, Dzidzor Azaglo, Elolo Bosoka, Jasper Dafeamekpor, Rosemary Esinam Damalie, Victor Ehikhamenor, Samuel Baah Kortey, Rebekka Macht, Afrane Makof, Putin Ofori, Frederick Ebenezer Okai,... Read more

UNLIMITED III: The African Family

Curated by Marwan Zakhem 23 May - 13 Jul 2024 The first and second iteration of this monumental group exhibition took place respectively in 2022 and 2023. Both editions, curated by Gallery 1957’s founder director Marwan Zakhem, invited artists from across the continent and the diaspora to produce specific works across all media to engage with the 1,400-square-metre of unfinished... Read more

Constellations Part 1: Figures On Earth & Beyond

Curated by Katherine Finerty, Nuna Adisenu-Doe, and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson 14 Mar - 1 Jun 2024 Artists participating in this group show include first-time collaborators of the Gallery; Adelaide Damoah, Alberta Whittle, Andrew Pierre Hart, Ayesha Feisal, Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation), Denyse Gawu-Mensah, Henry Hussey, Lisa C Soto, Phoebe Boswell, Rashaad Newsome, and Sarah Meyohas, as well as long-term collaborators and artists in residence; Johannes... Read more

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