Facilitators

Bernard Akoi-Jackson (PhD)
Artist | Curator | Writer
Bernard Akoi-Jackson is a Ghanaian artist who lives and works from Tema/Accra/Kumasi. His multi-disciplinary, audience implicating installations and performative “pseudo-rituals”, have featured in exhibitions like An Age of Our Own Making (Reflection II), in Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, (June 2016); Silence Between The Lines in Kumasi (2015), Material Effects, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum.
Bernard Akoi-Jackson
Bernard Akoi-Jackson (PhD) is a Ghanaian artist who lives and works from Tema/Accra/Kumasi. His multi-disciplinary, audience implicating installations and performative “pseudo-rituals”, have featured in exhibitions like An Age of Our Own Making (Reflection II), in Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark, (June 2016); Silence Between The Lines in Kumasi (2015), Material Effects, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum. MSU, East Lansing, USA (November 2015), WATA don PASS: Looking West CCA, Lagos and Lillith Performance Studio, Malmö, Sweden (May 2015) and Time, Trade and Travel, Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Nubuke Foundation, East Legon, Accra, Ghana (August – October 2012 and November 2012 – February 2013). He has curated exhibitions with blaxTARLINES KUMASI, KNUST, most prominent being Cornfields in Accra, (2016) and Orderly Disorderly, (2017). Akoi-Jackson holds a PhD in Painting and Sculpture from the College of Art and Built Environment, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi where he lectures with particular interest in disruption and the revolutionary potential in contemporary art practice. He curated the inaugural exhibition: “Galle Winston Kofi Dawson: In Pursuit of Something Beautiful, perhaps…” at the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) in Tamale, Ghana. Akoi-Jackson is a member of the Exit Frame Collective. He was a co-curator of the first Stellenbosch Triennale which took off in February 2020.

Adwoa Amoah
ARTIST | CO-DIRECTOR (FCA-GHANA)
Adwoa Amoah is an artist and co-director of the Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana (FCA), an active network of artists which functions as a laboratory for the presentation, development and promotion of contemporary art in Ghana, aimed at investigating new positions of creative curatorial and art practice in relation to contemporary art on the continent.
Adwoa B. Amoah
Adwoa Amoah is an artist and co-Director of the Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana (FCA), an active network of artists and support structure committed to the nurturing of contemporary art practice in Ghana. In her current role as co-Director of the FCA, she has managed, facilitated, coordinated, and co-curated several local and international collaborative art and educational projects including A CritLab, Accra, Ghana initiated by the Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana (FCA) in partnership with Exit Frame, blaxTARLINES and SCCA, Tamale (2020), Curatorial Intensive, Accra, Ghana with Independent Curators International (ICI) (2017), Àsìkò Art School, Accra, Ghana on The Archive: Static, Embodied, Practiced in collaboration with Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos (2013, 2017), the Global Crit Clinic, Accra, Ghana with faculty from Parsons the New School of Design –USA (2012, 2013, 2014). Using art as a starting point, she has coordinated and managed the creation of parks, play spaces and exhibitions for children including Mmofra Place in Dzorwulu, Accra with Mmofra Foundation (2014 to date). She is a member of the Exit Frame Collective based in Ghana and an Executive member of the Ghana Culture Forum (GCF) a network of cultural practitioners, activists, and organizations united around a common vision of affirming the cultural foundations of development.

Ato Annan
ARTIST | CO-DIRECTOR (FCA-GHANA)
Ato Annan is an artist based in Accra, Ghana. With an interest in painting, installation, sound and video, he combines his artistic practice with curating projects with the Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana [FCA-Ghana] and working with Mmofra Foundation on their play spaces interventions for children in communities in Accra.
Ato Annan
Ato Annan is an artist based in Accra, Ghana. With an interest in painting, installation, sound and video, he combines his artistic practice with curating projects with the Foundation for Contemporary Art – Ghana [FCA- Ghana] and working with Mmofra Foundation on their play spaces interventions for children in communities in Accra.
Annan has been actively involved in a number of projects that seek to diversify the field of contemporary art by offering tools to artists that enable them to participate in rigorous idea and research – based practices. These have been done through collaborations with the Global Critic Clinics, Independent Curators International and the Asiko International Art Residency of the Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos. With an interest also in public art and its ability to cultivate new and ‘wider’ audiences for contemporary art, he was one of the co-curators of the “visual art” component of the Chale Wote Street Art Festival from its inception in 2011 till 2016. In 2019 he juried on the The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program selection panel for the 2020 artists in residence. He also served the Curatorial Advisory Board for the 2019 Visible Award.

Kelvin Haizel
ARTIST
Kelvin Haizel is a Ghanaian artist committed to understanding Image via received notions of the expanded field of the photographical. His work has shown in OderlyDisorderly (2017), Rencontres de Bamako, Biennale Africaine de la Photographie (2017), Stellenbosch Trienniale (2020), and the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum (2021). Haizel is a doctoral student at KNUST College of Art in Kumasi. He belongs to the collectives: blaxTARLINES KUMASI and Exit Frame.
Kelvin Haizel
b.1987
Kelvin Haizel is a Ghanaian artist committed to understanding Image via received notions of the expanded field of the photographical. His experiments in image extend beyond the visual to include sonic and haptic forms. Haizel’s installation titled “things and nothings” showed at the 11th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako, Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, entitled Afrotopia (2017). He also participated in OderlyDisorderly exhibition (2017), organized by blaxTARLINES KUMASI at the Museum of Science and Technology, Accra. In the same year, he served as guest curator to the inaugural Lagos Biennale. Haizel won the price for young contemporary photography “A New Gaze 2”presented by Vontobel Art Commission, 2018, Switzerland. In 2019 he had his multi-sensorial solo exhibition in Zurich “Babysitting A Shark In A Coldroom: Comoros Encounters”. An extension of the project was shown in the Stellenbosch Triennial, “Tomorrow threre will be more of us” in 2020, and a select few also showed at the Museum Belvédère as part of the 27th Nooderlicht Photo Festival “Generation Z” 2020. His work is also part of the exhibition “This Is Not Africa: Unlearn what you have learned” which opened at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum in 2021. Kelvin Haizel is a doctoral student at KNUST College of Art in Kumasi. He belongs to the collectives: blaxTARLINES KUMASI and Exit Frame.

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
Curator | Critic | LECTURER
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh academically trained as an artist and now practices as a curator and critic based in Kumasi, Ghana. His work is compelled by the radical hope proposed by artist-pedagogue karî’kạchä seid’ou to “transform art from the status of commodity to gift”. Ohene-Ayeh is recipient of the ACASA Award for Curatorial Excellence in 2021, and led the curatorial team for Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’) organised by Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Tamale and Red Clay in Ghana (2020-2021). He co-organizes Kelas Bareng/Joint Class (since 2020)— an ongoing online experimental educational initiative between Gudskul (Indonesia), Städelschule (Germany), blaxTARLINES KUMASI (KNUST, Ghana) and Nordland Kunst og filmhøgskole (Norway). In 2022 Kelas Bareng was invited to documenta fifteen by lumbung member Gudskul. Ohene-Ayeh is also one of the Artistic Advisors for the 59th Venice Biennale (International Art Exhibition in 2022), under the artistic direction of the Curator Cecilia Alemani. He is a teacher at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi.
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh is a curator and critic based in Kumasi, Ghana. His work is compelled by the radical hope proposed by artist-pedagogue karî’kạchä seid’ou to “transform art from the status of commodity to gift”. Ohene-Ayeh co-organizes Kelas Bareng/Joint Class (since 2020)— an ongoing online experimental educational initiative between Gudskul (Indonesia), Städelschule (Germany), blaxTARLINES KUMASI (KNUST, Ghana) and Nordland Kunst og filmhøgskole (Norway). In 2022 Kelas Bareng was invited to documenta fifteen by lumbung member Gudskul. He is one of the Artistic Advisors for the 59th Venice Biennale (International Art Exhibition in 2022), under the artistic direction of Cecilia Alemani. He is also a lecturer at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi.