(b. 1998, Ghana. Lives and works in Accra) 

Denyse Gawu-Mensah is a passionate female artist currently living and working in Ghana. As a child, she was often fascinated by design, shapes, colour and explored things to satisfy her curiosity. After discovering her passion and love for art, she went on to study visual art in high school and communication design at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. For her, art had become a lifestyle.

A natural-born adventurer, she has a strong appreciation for nature and spends a lot of her time traveling, exploring, and immersing herself in new cultures and lifestyles. Being an avid collector and an advocate for sentimental value, as she moves around, she finds herself mentally and physically gathering experiences and memorabilia for the purpose of creative reuse and expression.

Denyse believes curiosity and wonder is what fuels her wild imagination. For her, her art pieces are nothing but visual expressions and manifestations of her inner thoughts and emotions. With the abstract and fantastical nature of her work she aims at pushing her audience to also ignite their imagination. She believes that imagination is a tool necessary to creating and inventing the new.

In 2019 Denyse enrolled in Airforce Complex School in Takoradi, Western Region where she dedicated a year to teaching creative arts to primary school pupils. During this time she nurtured young minds and taught them to be bold with their creativity and be open to the possibilities it brings.

Denyse is also a member of the “Asafo Black” art collective. Together they have participated internationally in exhibitions like the 2020 Stellenbosch Triennale in South Africa and with their guerrilla-tactics interventions have held their own self-funded exhibitions here in Ghana, such as “Vibes” in 2018 and “Truth or dare” in 2019 at the Ghana National Theatre. She has also participated in events and exhibitions hosted by institutions such as the 2022 ARX exhibition - “The Powerhouse” held in Germany and Ghana, 2021 Artist in Focus on Guest Projects Digital by London’s Yinka Shonibare Foundation, 2020 Ake Arts and Book festival hosted in Nigeria.

(b. 2000, Ghana. Lives and works in Accra)

Maame Adjoa Ohemeng is a Ghanaian artist currently residing in Accra -Ghana. She graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Art (BFA) at the Kwame Nkrumah University of science and Technology, Department of painting and sculpture and is also a member of the blaxTARLINEScommunity; a project space and contemporary art incubator.

She uses the technique of mixed media painting to depict utopian scenes with influences from classical paintings, mostly crafted from spontaneous events and stories both within her local vicinity and beyond. She uses her paintings to tell stories by creating fictional characters based on issues of gender, sexuality and post human feminist theories whiles exploring the ideas of play which forms an intentional unintentional part in the creation Maame Adjoa’s disgustingly beautiful paintings. Her creative practice involves the use of techniques such as painting, mosaic and collaging (mixed media painting) to create utopian spaces based on the imaginations of imaginative characters thus creating scenes and stories inspired by society.

In the production of her works, she makes use of a wide variety of materials, these include beads, paint, plaster of Paris, resin, pompoms etcetera, the materials are usually both industrial and fun materials that try to draw the attention and navigate the eyes or minds of individuals to whatever is happening on the support.

(b.1989 lives and works in Accra, Ghana)

Rebecca Pokua Korang is a multidisciplinary artist and cultural educator based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in her German-Ghanaian heritage, with a particular focus on Black histories in Germany and the legacy of German colonialism. She studied dance at Kingston University in London and is currently pursuing her MA in Spatial Strategies at KunsthochschuleWeißensee.

She incorporates movement and performance, with elements like protest documentation, spoken word, and everyday materials. Her artistic practice is inspired by Afro-diasporic and intersectional feminist discourses, making it both personally resonant and politically charged. In her practice, she explores the intersections of movement, media, and space. She often works with video, sound, and textile as mediums to create layered narratives that speak to the complexities of identity and history.

For her, art is a means of storytelling—one that bridges personal experience and collective memory. Her recent group exhibitions include: 'Forgive us our trespasses’, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2024; ‘Sonnets of Anger’, Gropius Bau, Berlin, 2024; ‘VULlNE|RA|BLE’, KOW, Berlin, 2024; Lagos Biennal, 2024. Her most recent solo exhibition is ‘Call me STR-Anger’ at Palermo Galerie in Stuttgart (2024). She was shortlisted for a decolonial memorial at Global Village Berlin with the project ‘The Ghost of a Memorial’, 2024