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." He is one of the Artistic Advisors for the 59th Venice Biennale (International Art Exhibition in 2022), under the artistic direction of Cecilia Alemani. Ohene-Ayeh co-edited the monograph Ibrahim Mahama, Exchange-Exchanger (1957-2057) in 2017. He is recipient of the ACASA Award for Curatorial Excellence (2021), and led the curatorial team for Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’) organized by Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) Tamale and Red Clay, in Ghana (2020-2021). He also co-curated the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography themed Streams of Consciousness: A Concatenation of Dividuals in Mali (2019-2020). Ohene-Ayeh is presently a lecturer at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi.
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