Art & Culture

In Where the Waters Meet, Otis Quaicoe returns to Ghana with a body of work that celebrates black leisure, joy, and the radical act of rest. Marking his first solo exhibition in his country of birth, this homecoming is also a meditation on water—its capacity to hold us, to offer respite, and its particular significance for black bodies navigating histories of exclusion and belonging. Here, pools and oceans become sites of reclamation, spaces where pleasure is not only possible but essential.

Gallery 1957 in partnership with Limbo Museum is proud to present On the Other Side of Languish, a solo exhibition by Reginald Sylvester II. On the Other Side of Languish – his first solo exhibition in Africa – brings together nineteen sculptures and seven paintings created during his residency program with the Limbo Museum, mapping six weeks spent in Accra.

LIGHTYEARS OF US, is the inaugural solo exhibition by Ghanaian artist Denyse Gawu-Mensah, winner of the Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize 2024. The exhibition draws on Gawu-Mensah’s rich family archive of photographs from the  1960s and 1970s, depicting Ghana’s dynamic post-independence period, reconstructing personal and  collective histories into tactile records of time. Working with image transfer techniques from digital collages Gawu-Mensah transforms vintage photographs into fragile yet enduring records of personal and collective history that she layers manually into textiles.

Almost a decade after inaugurating Gallery 1957 with his debut solo exhibition “My Mother’s Wardrobe” in 2016, Serge Attukwei Clottey returns to take over our 1,400 sqm Unlimited Gallery, presenting “[Dis]Appearing Rituals: An Open Lab of Now for Tomorrow” - the first and only solo exhibition ever held in this expansive venue. 

Nubuke Foundation presents ‘Ending the Beginning’, an exhibition featuring the works of second-generation figurative coffin maker Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi. Kpakpo’s practice—rooted in Ga funerary traditions and shaped by his apprenticeship with Paa Joe—extends the lineage of figurative coffin making through bold colour, hand-painted surfaces, and refined woodcarving. His forms speak to contemporary expressions of identity, memory, and community.