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.

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.

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.

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.

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.