Dr. Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh

Research Fellow


Dept: Painting and Sculpture
Opoku Ware II Museum
KNUST

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Research Areas/Interests

Ohene-Ayeh's research interests span curating, new materiality, art history, critical theory, art criticism, philosophy, and emancipatory pedagogy....~more

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Research Projects (Current and Past)

Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei, ‘Dota’), 2020-2021

Photography in Ghana

of Materials and things (2021) 

 

On Universality and Curating in the Void

On Kelvin Haizel’s Indeterminate Images (2021)

Fragments of a World After Its Own Image

APALAZZOGALLERY

Brescia, Italy

Curator: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh

Artists: Felicia Abban (née Ansah), Dennis Ankamah Addo, James Barnor, Afrane Akwasi Bediako, Ernestina Mansa Doku, Isshaq Ismail, Samuel Baah Kortey, Tegene Kunbi, Maame Adjoa Ohemeng, Jeffrey Otoo, Edward Prah, Naomi Boahemaa Sakyi Jnr. 

March 29 - May 17 2025

 

Curator of blaxTARLINES-APALAZZOGALLERY-GALERIE CLEMENTINE DE LA FERONNIÉRÈ booth at miart 2025 (Milan’s modern and contemporary art fair).

April 4-6, 2025

  1. Ghana 1957: Art After Independence

National Museum of Ghana

Accra, Ghana

Curators: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Elizabeth Asafo-Adjei, Ashley Miller

September 21, 2024 - March 29, 2025

 

TRANSFER(S)

Solo exhibition of works by Ibrahim Mahama 

Ghana | Germany 

Co-curators: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Bettina Klein

Commissioned by Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

8th July 2023 - January 2024

 

From the void came gifts of the cosmos  

The 35th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts September 

Artistic Director: Ibrahim Mahama

Co-curators: Exit Frame Collective (Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Adwoa Amoah, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Kelvin Haizel, Ato Annan), Alicia Knock, Selom Koffi Kudjie, Inga L?ce, Beya Othmani and Patrick Nii Okanta  

Ljubljana, Slovenia

15, 2023–January 14, 2024 

 

Streams of Consciousness

12ème Édition Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie (12th Edition Bamako Encounters Photography Biennial)

Artistic Director: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung

Co-curators: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Aziza Harmel and Astrid Sokona Lepoultier 

Bamako, Mali 

30th November 2019 - 31st January 2020

 

Living on the Edge (Lagos Biennial, 2017)

Organized by Àkéte Art Foundation and Legacy 1995

Artistic Director: Folakunle Oshun

Curatorial team: Amira Paree (Co-Curator), Sola Akintunde (Co-Curator), Afolabi Oluwatobi (Curatorial Assistant)

Guest Curators: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh and Kelvin Haizel  

Featuring 44 artists

Lagos, Nigeria

October 14th – November 22nd, 2017

Orderly Disorderly

KNUST End-of-Year Contemporary Art Exhibition

Organized by blaxTARLINES KUMASI in collaboration with Ghana Museums and Monuments Board

Featuring 106 artists (fresh graduates, alumni and special guest artists)

Artistic Director: ka?rî'ka?chä seid’ou
Curators: Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Mavis Tetteh-Ocloo, Selom Kudjie, Patrick Nii Okanta Ankrah

Guest curators: Kofi Adjei and Kezia Owusu-Ankomah

30th June – 1st September, 2017

Museum of Science and Technology, Accra.

 

of Materials and things

Curator: Exit Frame Collective (Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Adwoa Amoah, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Kelvin Haizel, Ato Annan). 

The exhibition is presented as part of the season "Un Quartier Généreux" organised by La Condition Publique in Roubaix, France, on the occasion of the Africa2020-2021 Season.

21st April - 25th July, 2021

 


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