The researcher employs an interdisciplinary approach to explore the intersections of identity, culture, movement, and resilience in African societies. Through works such as *Silent Revolution* and *Five-Way Conversation*, they examine how cultural expressions address systemic challenges, from preserving traditions to challenging dominant narratives. Their research also delves into contemporary issues like urban development and dance practices, revealing how diverse perspectives can foster inclusive and equitable outcomes. By synthesizing insights across themes, the researcher aims to provide a comprehensive framework for understanding marginalized communities' struggles in a rapidly changing world.
Faculty Biography
Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Ph.D., is a curator, critic, and educator based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a key member of the blaxTARLINES coalition whose work in the fields of pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art stretches across teaching at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, KNUST, to running the 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). Ohene-Ayeh is curator of Fragments of A World After Its Own Image (2025) at APALAZZOGALLERY in Brescia, and 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-oriented research and exhibition project commissioned by Kunsthalle Osnabrück in Germany and Ghana (2023); 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 recent monograph published by Distanz, and From the void came gifts of the cosmos: a reader (2023) the official reader for the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. His published essays have featured in ArtReview, E-flux Architecture, African Arts journal, and several others. He actively publishes articles on his blog: www.iubeezy.wordpress.com.
African history and culture studies
Art, Politics, and Modernism
Contemporary Cultural and Social Studies
Diversity and Impact of Dance
Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Reading Al Hassan Issah’s Radicant Formalism
Transforming Art from Commodity to Gift: karî’kachä seid'ou's Silent Revolution in the Kumasi College of Art
Talking, Stuttering, Speaking Whilst Listening Intently for a Promise of Egalitarian Regeneration: A Five-Way Conversation
Exposing Something to Someone While Exposing Someone to Something: blaxTARLINES Exhibition Cultures There-Then-And-Hereafter
Apam Apata: The Dancing Bamboo Theater
Department of Painting and Sculpture
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology