Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Ph.D., is a curator, critic, and educator based in Kumasi, Ghana. He belongs to the blaxTARLINES KUMASI coalition of co-workers—the open-source collective and art labor movement nested in the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). His work intersects pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art. Ohene-Ayeh has [co-]curated blaxTARLINES KUMASI's exhibition at the 61st International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia by Koyo Kouoh (2026); Fragments of A World After Its Own Image (2025) at APALAZZOGALLERY in Brescia; TRANSFER(S), Ibrahim Mahama’s site-oriented research and exhibition project in Germany and Ghana (2023); the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography (2019-2020); Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’) (2020-2021); and the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennale with Exit Frame Collective (2023-2024). His edited publications include TRANSFER(S) (2024), Mahama’s monograph published by Distanz. Published essays by Ohene-Ayeh have appeared in ArtReview, E-flux Architecture, African Arts journal, and several other platforms and anthologies. Ohene-Ayeh presently teaches at the Department of Painting and Sculpture at KNUST. His current research observes the exhibition as a pedagogical situation while positing the curator as a self-subverting authority.