EXHIBITIONS

 

Selected Solo shows

2011 Microcron - Kusum: Secret Signs - Hidden Meanings, October Gallery, London, UK
Owusu-Ankomah - Prelude to the Microcron, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
2008 Stepping Out, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
Body & Soul, Nomad Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2006/7 Traces of the Future, Iwalewa-Haus, Bayreuth, Germany and Gallery Simoncini, Luxembourg
Future Track, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany, touring to European Kunsthof Vicht, Stolberg-Vicht, Germany; Skoto Gallery, New York, USA (2007); Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany (2007); Art Association Aalen, Aalen, Germany (2007)
Owusu-Ankomah - Paintings, Kunstraum, Potsdam, Germany
2005 Crossing Over, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
Heroes, Sages and Saints, Ghana National Museum, Accra
Human Nature, Film Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Owusu-Ankomah, Walu Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2003 Africa Festival, Galerie écart, Osnabrück, Germany
Paintings, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Artificio, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Unison, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
2002 Movements, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Movements, Kühn Gallery, Lilienthal, Germany
1999 Kronacher Art Association, Kronach, Germany
Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Kusum III, The Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
1997 Kusum II, Steinbrecher Gallery, Bremen, Germany
Klappe - die zweite, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Root Signs, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
1996 Dance on the Volcano, Steinbrecher Gallery, Bremen, Germany
Kühn Gallery, Lilienthal, Germany
1995 University St. Gallen (former Hochschule St. Gallen), St. Gallen, Switzerland
Kühn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1994 Peter Herrmann Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Apex Gallery, Göttingen, Germany
Art Association Salzgitter, Salzgitter Germany
1993 Savannah Gallery of Modern African Art, London, UK
Galerie im Hinterhaus, Wiesbaden, Germany
1992 Wildeshausen Gallery, Wildeshausen, Germany
La Trastienda del Arte, Madrid, Spain
1991 Kusum, Steinbrecher Gallery, Bremen, Germany
Art Association Wiligrad, Schloss Wiligrad, Lübstorf, Germany
1989 From Sharpeville to Soweto, Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany
1988 Gallery of Forum Bomlitz, Bomlitz, Germany
Carl Duisberg Society, Essen, Germany
Roche Gallery, Bremen, Germany
1987 Villa Ichon, Bremen, Germany
Grünspan Gallery, Ottersberg, Germany
City Library, Bremen, Germany
1981 Art Centre, Accra, Ghana
1977 Art Centre, Accra, Ghana
1976 YMCA Hall, Accra, Ghana

Sellected Group Exhibitions

2018 I is an Other/Be the Other, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2015 Africa Africans, Museu Afro Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Transvangarde Now, October Gallery, London, UK
Art Dubai 2011, Dubai, UAE (October Gallery)
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (October Gallery)
Africa, Book and Art, Open Art Gallery, Borken, Germany
Ancestral Space, Translated Identities, Mojo Gallery, Dubai, U.A.E.
2010 Art Dubai 2010, Dubai, UAE (October Gallery
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (October Gallery, ARTCO Gallery)
Fine Art, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa
Africa 2.0 - Is There a Contemporary African Art?, Influxcontemporary, Lisbon, Portugal
2009 Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
... aus Leidenschaft, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Unbounded: New Art for a New Century,The Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, USA
Homecoming, Ghanaian expatriate artists’ exhibition, Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (October Gallery, ARTCO Gallery)
Art Multiple, Herzogenrath, Germany (ARTCO Gallery)
2008 Angaza Afrika - African Art Now, October Gallery, London, UK
Input, National Museum, Luanda, Angola
Lend Me Your Ears, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Dialogue, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
Einen AUGEN-Blick, bitte!, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa (October Gallery)
At Eye Level, City Gallery Viersen, Germany
2007 Inscribing Meaning: Writing and Graphic Systems in African Art, a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
From Courage to Freedom, October Gallery, London, UK
Tapping Currents: Contemporary African Art and the Diaspora, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Have a Good Nose, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Africa Select, ARTCO Gallery, Herzogenrath, Germany
Artists Alliance Gallery, Accra, Ghana
The World Bank Collection, World Bank, Washington DC, USA
In and Out of Africa, Museum Haus der Völker, Schwaz, Austria
Art Cologne, 41st International Fair for Modern Art, Cologne, Germany (ARTCO Gallery)
2006 Body of Evidence (Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection), National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
Allstars, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
Dialogue of Positions, Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum, Hildesheim, Germany
Focus Africa, Kunsthaus Viernheim, Viernheim, Germany
The Elephant, Kühn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
7th Dak’Art, Dakar Biennale, Senegal
Distant Relatives – Relative Distance, Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Art Cologne, 40th International Fair for Modern Art, Germany (Jörg Heitsch Gallery)
All our Tomorrows, Exhibition Space University Lüneburg, Germany
Salon d’art Contemporain Africain de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
2005 Salon d’art Contemporain Africain de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Groß und Quer, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Visualized Rhythms, Waschhaus, Potsdam, Germany
Hand in Hand, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
2004 Africa Remix, Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany, touring to: Hayward Gallery, London, UK (2005); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France (2005); Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2006); Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (2006/07); Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa (2007)
Bocca della Verita, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Fifteen Years Peter Herrmann Gallery, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Artiade, Olympics of Visual Art 2004, Tavros-Athens, Greece
Africome, Stadthalle Oelsnitz, Oelsnitz, Germany
To Be: Human Rights through Art, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
The Africa to Come (L’Afrique á venire), Art Association Ostseebad Kühlungsborn, Kühlungsborn, Germany
2003 Journeys and Destinations, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA
A Fiction of Authenticy: Contemporary Africa Abroad, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA (2006)
Ghana Yesterday and Today, Musée Dapper, Paris, France
Post Border Land, Stichting Beeldende Kunst (SBK), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Espacios Mesticos II, International Contemporary Art Meeting, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Retrospective 2003, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
The Rest of the World, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlin, Germany
Dialoge, Gegenwartskunst in Südbaden, Galerie im Alten Schloss, Wehr, Germany
World Art Series VII, a collaboration between Klinger Gallery, Görlitz, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, and Holger Wendland of Edition Raute, Dresden, Germany
Art Cologne, 37th International Fair for Modern Art, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2002 African Night, Paul-Löbe-Haus, a Peter Herrmann Gallery exhibition at the German Parliament, Berlin, Germany
Visual Art and Sculptures, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
2001 It Flies and Flies, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Artists of the Day, Flowers East Gallery, London, UK
2000 Art from the Homelands (Heimatkunst), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Ark (Arche), Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Overview, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Paradise Zero, Eventa 5 Biennale, Uppsala, Sweden
EXPO 2000, Hanover, Germany
Transafricana, Bologna, Italy
Three Way Conference, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Berlin, Germany
In the Colours of Africa, Mission 2000, Lille, France
The Insect, Kühn Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1999 Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
From Scarab to New Beetle, Art Association Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany
Five Continents One City, International Salon of Painting, Museum of Mexico City, Mexico City, Mexico
1998 Body and Soul, Staatsgalerij Heerlen, the Netherlands
The New Spirit of Africa (Der Neue Geist Afrikas), Art Association Landshut, Landshut, Germany
Multiple Echo, Peter Herrmann Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
Aids World, Le Monde du Sida, touring to: Geneva, Zug, Zurich, Bellinzona
1997 6th Biennial of Havana, Havana, Cuba
Polarisation, Jörg Heitsch Gallery, Munich, Germany
Exhibition of the Fourth International Conference of Visual Arts, Vancouver, Canada
1996 2nd Dak’art, Biennale Dakar, Senegal
Africana, Sala 1 Gallery, Rome, Italy
Art Project African-European Inspiration, Pedakondji, Togo; Alsdorf, Germany
1995 The Right to Hope, Johannesburg Art Gallery (JAG), Johannesburg, South Africa, touring to: Cairo, Amman, Gaza, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
Absolute Ghana, Accra Contemporary Art (ACA), Accra, Ghana
An Inside Story: African Art of our Time, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, touring to: the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Tokushima; Himeji City Museum of Art, Himeji;
Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama; Marugame Inokuma-Genichiro Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan.
1994 Around and Around, collaborative and touring exhibition: Achim Kubinski Gallery and Peter Herrmann Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany (1994); Espace Doual’Art, Douala, Cameroon (1995), Achim Kubinski Gallery, Berlin, Germany (1999), Peter Herrmann Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany (1999)
Kunst im Landtag, Rheinland-Pfalz, Mainz, Germany
1993 Art Multiple, Düsseldorf,Germany
1991 Bremen Art Show, BBK Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Artists of Bremen, Roche Gallery, Bremen, Germany
1988 Exhibition Award for Visual Art Bremen, Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1987 Paintings 87, El Patio, Bremen, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany
1986 We Live Here, El Patio, Bremen, Germany
1985 Artists for Human Rights, Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany
1981 Group Show of Ghanaian Painters, Oakland, USA

Selected Collections

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA
MTN Art Institute Collection, Johannesburg, South Africa
National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C., USA
FirstRand Bank, Johannesburg, South Africa
Standard Chartered Bank, South Africa
Renaissance Capital, Moscow, Russia
Collection International Finance Corporation, World Bank, Washington, D.C., USA
Übersee-Museum, Bremen, Germany
Espacio C de Arte Contemporáneo, Camargo, Spain
The Sindika Dokolo Foundation, Luanda, Angola
British Museum, London
UK Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA