Existing Otherwise - Future of Co-Existence

Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art, Redclay and Nkrumah Voli-ni

Tamale, Ghana

14 January, 2022 — 30 April, 2022

Group Exhibition

Groundbreaking steps were taken, when Ibrahim Mahama and his team founded, built, and put into use three awe-inspiring contemporary art venues, The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Red Clay, and Nkrumah Voli-Ni, in the Northern Region of Ghana over the past five years. Following this initial process, introducing an international exhibition programme alongside local cultural engagements is an important next step. While the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to challenge travelling, communication, administration of international art projects as well as artistic exchange and inspiration, the programme serves to resist these and pursues new sustainable ways of international exhibition-making and communal envisioning.

Upon the invitation by Ibrahim Mahama, who states “I want to create space for alternative and independent thinking, critical art, and eco-activism here in northern Ghana. This is why we do this exhibition, where we mix artists from Berlin and Tamale who have this approach.”

The first larger international exhibition “Existing Otherwise – The Future of Coexistence” is now happening at this “powerhouse” for the arts in Tamale under the artistic direction of Solvej Helweg Ovesen and Selom Kudje (artistic director SCCA). “Instituting new forms of long term visionary and artistic exchanges across the art world and developing innovative models for creative space-making, human adaptation, and shared knowledge is what I’m interested in with this project. There is a lot to learn from Ghana.”, Ovesen reflects.

Exhibiting Artists:
Sarah Ama Duah, Ana Alenso, Eli Cortiñas, Hannah Toticki Anbert, Sandra Kyeraa, Ato Jackson, Ernest Sackitey, Rosemary Esinam Damalie, Rüzgâr Buşki, Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Selorm Kudjie, Sikarnt Skoolisariyaporn, Emily Hunt and Tracy Naa Koshie Thompson

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