Publications
Edited Books
Ohene-Ayeh, K., Haizel., K. Ankrah P.N.O., Kudjie, S., (eds) 2023, From the void came gifts of the cosmos: a reader [35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts Biennale reader], International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, ISBN 978-961-7197-09-9.
Ndikung, BSB, Lepoultier, A S, Harmel, A, Ohene-Ayeh, K (eds.) 2019, Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals [catalog], Archive Books & Editions Balani’s, Berlin.
Ndikung, BSB, Lepoultier, A S, Harmel, A, Ohene-Ayeh, K (eds.) 2019, Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals [biennial reader]. Archive Books & Editions Balani’s, Berlin.
Ohene-Ayeh, K, Akoi-Jackson, B. (eds) 2017, Ibrahim Mahama, Exchange-Exchanger (1957-2057). Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln.
Articles
Ohene-Ayeh, K. 2023. 'Not Knowing', Art Review, Vol 75, No.2, March 2023, pp. 42 -44
Ohene-Ayeh K. 2021. ‘Indeterminate Images: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh reflects on the practice of Kelvin Haizel’. Over Journal, issue 2. Photo Ireland. p. 32-43.
Akoi-Jackson, B, Mahama, I, Ohene-Ayeh, K, Thompson, NKT, and seid’ou, k 2021, ‘Talking, Stuttering, Speaking Whilst Listening Intently for a Promise of Egalitarian Regeneration: A Five-Way Conversation’, African Arts, 54(2), p12-21.
Bodjawah, E, Kissiedu, B.K, Ampratwum, G, Ohene-Ayeh, K, Amenuke, D, Adashie, M, Mahama, I, Kisser, A, McTernan, B, Akoi-Jackson, B, Owusu-Ankomah, K, Kujie, S, Riskin, R, Thompson, N.K.T 2021, ‘Transforming Art from Commodity to Gift: ka?rî’ka?chä seid’ou’s Silent Revolution in the Kumasi College of Art’, African Arts, 54(2), p22-35.
seid’ou, k, Ampratwum, G, Kissiedu B.K, Bodjawah, E, Akoi-Jackson, B. Ohene-Ayeh, K, Riskin, R, Ankrah, P.N.O, Tetteh-Ocloo, M, Kudjie, S, Kisser, A, Owusu- Ankomah, K, Gyabeng, F, Adashie, M, Haizel K, 2021, ‘Exposing Something to Someone While Exposing Someone to Something: blaxTARLINES Exhibition Cultures There-Then-And-Hereafter’, African Arts, 54(2), p36-51.
Ohene-Ayeh, K. 2020, ‘On Universality and Curating in the Void’, Something We Africans Got, issue 11, p92-95.
Ohene-Ayeh, K. (2019), ‘On Emancipation, Freedom and Art’, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora. 45(2), p129-141.
Aziza, H, Ohene-Ayeh, K, Lepoultier, A, Ndikung, BSB, 2019, ‘Streams of Consciousness’, South As A State of Mind, issue 11, p134-145.
Book chapters
Ohene-Ayeh, K. 2021, ‘Secular Love and What is at Stake in this Dreadful Storm’, Resilience: A Collection, Heritage Lane Press, p.5-14.
Ohene-Ayeh, K. 2019, ‘A Phenomenological Reading of Elia Nurvista’s Früchtlinge’, Elia Nurvista: Feeding the Scene [catalog], Verlag Kettler, Dortmund, p.17-18.
Ohene-Ayeh, K. 2019, ‘On Thought Streams, Networks and Short Circuits’, in B.S.B Ndikung, K Ohene-Ayeh, A Lepoultier, A Harmel, (eds.), Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals, [Biennial Reader]. Archive Books & Editions Balani’s, Berlin. 37-45.
Mahama, I, Ohene-Ayeh, K, Akoi-Jackson, B, 2017, Ibrahim Mahama, Exchange-Exchanger (1957-2057), Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, p.102-108.
Ohene-Ayeh K, Johanessen, T, 2016, Unlearning/ Interpretations [catalog], HAiKw/, Norway.
Presentations
2023
1. Online lecture on African Urbanism with graduate students of Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
26th October, 2023.
2. Space Forum 2023: Independent art space creation as curatorial practice
Discussants: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (curator, critic) and Dolapo Hannah Osunsina (community organizer, queer activist, producer, and lawyer)
21 October, 2023
Goethe Institut Nigeria
Lagos, Nigeria
3. Panel Conversation: TRANSFER(S), Osnabru?ck, Germany.
Panelists: Dr. Thorsten Heese, (Curator for Urban and Cultural History Museumsquartier), Dr. Vera Hierholzer (Director Museum Industriekultur), Anna Jehle (Director Kunsthalle Osnabru?ck), Bettina Klein (co-Curator), Patricia Mersinger (head of the Department of Culture and Project Leader Anniversary 2023), Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (co-curator), Britta Peters (Artistic Director Urbane Ku?nste Ruhr)
20th September, 2023
Osnabru?ck, Germany
4. Panel conversation: From the void came gifts of the cosmos
Panelists: Ibrahim Mahama, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Beya Othmani, Inga La?ce, Alicia Knock July 12, 2023
Venue: Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany
5. Art Basel Conversations: Artist-Led Spaces: Learning from the African Continent
Panelists: Yinka Shonibare, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Kaloki Nyamai, Dana Whabira, Kadiatou Diallo (moderator)
15th June, 2023
Basel, Switzerland
6. Workshop: Giving Space - Taking Space, M.Bassy meets Zwischenraum, Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Ku?nste der Welt (MARKK), Hamburg, Germany.
PARTICIPANTS, Bisrat Negassi (M.Bassy), Marleen-Christine Linke (M.Bassy), Kwasi Ohene- Ayeh (artist & curator), Jumoke Adeyanju (artist & curator), Alexis Peskine (artist), Zana Masombuka (artist), Johanna Wild (MARKK), Gabriel Schimmeroth (MARKK), Dr. Belinda Grace Gardner (chronicler).
5th - 6th June, 2023
7. InternationalBiennialAssociation(IBA)Stage:RencontresdeBamako–AfricanBiennialof Photography
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Lassana Igo Diarra April 28th, 2023
2022
1. blaxTARLINES: Giving Commons Refuge and Refuge Commons
Lecture at Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Ku?nste der Welt (MARKK)
The talk happened as part of programming for the 8th Photography Triennale in Hamburg, Germany
26th May, 2022
2. Mentor at The Raining Season School, established by The Forest Creative Loft in Douala Cameroun.
The Raining Season School is a laboratory conceived by Aude Christel Mgba, Kwasi Ohene- Ayeh, Chantal Edie and Zacharie Ngnogue for the project For the Phoenix to Find its Form in Us: On Restitution, Rehabilitation and Reparation. The project is initiated by SAVVY Contemporary and funded by the German Cultural Fund
2020-2022
2021
1. Online lecture: on blaxTARLINES KUMASI
Camberwell College of Arts, University of Arts London (B.A and M.A Fine Arts students) 16th November, 2021
2. Lead Facilitator: CritLab
Intensive professional program for artists, curators and critics
Organised by Exit Frame Collective in partnership with FCA - Ghana, SCCA Tamale, blaxTARLINES KUMASI, and KNUST Museum (Opoku Ware II Museum).
20th - 31st October, 2020
3. Seminar: Embracing the Traumatic in the Aesthetic Unconscious
Panelists: Wolfgang Tillmans, Eric Gyamfi, Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson, Kelvin Haizel Moderator: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
Nubuke Foundation (under the auspices of ifa, Berlin and Goethe Institut, Accra)
2nd October, 2021
4. Seminar: Partisan Cultures: Weapons of Mass Creation
Title: On Contingency and Political Indifference: Lessons from blaxTARLINES KUMASI’s 21st Century Emancipatory Pedagogy
Panelists: Jihan El Tahri, Kirill Medvedev, Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (Online)
Moderator: Aziza Harmel
Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
2nd October, 2021.
5. Seminar: #03 DECOSO Meeting (Online). Title: Reflexive Tema and Global Elsewheres... Panel: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Ato Annan, Respondents: Rene? Boer, Doreen Mende
28th September, 2021.
6. Seminar: On Art and Pedagogy
Pile au Rendezvous festival
Panelists: Kelvin Haizel, Julien Pitinome, Flora Beillouin, Nontobeko Ntombela, Ibrahim Mahama
Moderator: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
La Condition Publique, Roubaix, France
10th July, 2021
7. Webinar: SOUTH SOUTH THINK TANK: Institutional Hybridity.
Curated by The Showroom, London
Convened by Director Elvira Dyangani Ose
Panelists: Prateek Raja & Priyanka Raja (Experimenter, Kolkata, India), Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh (blaxTARLINES KUMASI, Ghana), Pablo Guardiola (Beta-Local, Puerto Rico, San Juan) Moderator: Fernanda Brenner (Pivo?, Sa?o Paulo, Brazil)
24th February, 2021