29.02.24 / 19h @ GRUND1535
„The Curator as Self-Subverting Authority“
Curator’s Talk by Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
(blaxTARLINES, Kumasi, Ghana)
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh is a curator and critic based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a key member of the blaxTARLINES coalition and a member Exit Frame Collective. In his talk he presented results of his PhD project which is located in the fields of pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art production.
bio:
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh is a curator and critic based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a key member of the blaxTARLINES coalition whose work is compelled by the radical hope proposed by karî’kạchä seid’ou to “transform art from the status of commodity to gift”. Ohene-Ayeh’s work in the fields of pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art stretches across teaching at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to running the annual peer-led, schizo-pedagogical, and inoperative art school project called CritLab since 2020 as a member Exit Frame Collective in Ghana. He also co-organises Kelas Bareng— an experimental educational project managed between Gudskul, blaxTARLINES, Städelschule, and FiK (Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg) which featured at documenta fifteen (2022).
Ohene-Ayeh is co-curator of the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography (2019-2020); Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’) (2020-2021); TRANSFER(S), Ibrahim Mahama’s site-oriented research and exhibition project commissioned by Kunsthalle Osnabrück in Germany and Ghana (2023); and the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennale with Exit Frame Collective (2023).
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