Bio

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh is a curator and critic based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a key member of the blaxTARLINES coalition whose work is compelled by the radical hope proposed by karî’kạchä seid’ou to “transform art from the status of commodity to gift”. Ohene-Ayeh’s work in the fields of pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art stretches across teaching at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), to running the annual peer-led, schizo-pedagogical, and inoperative art school project called CritLab since 2020 as a member Exit Frame Collective in Ghana.  He also co-organises Kelas Bareng— an experimental educational project managed between Gudskul, blaxTARLINES, Städelschule, and FiK – Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg which featured at documenta fifteen (2022). He served as one of the Artistic Advisors for the 59th Venice Biennale (International Art Exhibition in 2022), under the artistic direction of Cecilia Alemani. Ohene-Ayeh is co-curator of 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); TRANSFER(S), Ibrahim Mahama’s site-specific installation commissioned by Kunsthalle Osnabrück in Germany (2023); and the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennale with Exit Frame Collective (2023). 

Email: kwasioheneayeh@knust.edu.gh