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Vanessa Amoah Opoku (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist who focuses on history, technology, and marginalized narratives within mixed realities. In her artistic practice, she reflects on how alliances between art, science, and technology can change perceptions of our world, reality, and all living things. Her preferred media include 3D graphics, animation, sculpture, photogrammetry, sound, and artificial intelligence.
Opoku is part of the artist collective PARA, which works in the field of interdisciplinary and site-specific installations and performing arts. Their works address topics such as chronopolitics, future heritage, and speculative feelings. Since 2021, she has been the art curator of Balance Club Culture Festival, which explores the political significance of club culture in society, its role in different communities, and its contribution to technological and cultural progress.
She studied Book Art and Graphic Design, Art and Digital Media and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem, graduating with a Diploma in Fine Arts with Prof. Tina Bara at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in September 2021.
She holds a scholarship from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and won "gute aussichten – junge deutsche fotografie // new german photography 2021/2022." She has recently exhibited her works at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, die Angewandte Wien, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Halle 14 Leipzig, (im)Mutable Studio Los Angeles, with a solo show at Synnika Frankfurt, Times Museum's Huangbian Station Contemporary Art Research Center (HBS) in Guangzhou, China and at EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin
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SOLO SHOWS
Sunrise to Sunrise (Tricksters) EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin
GROUP SHOWS
Art Auction 11, WESERHALLE, Berlin
Nichts als Solide OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg
When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect MZIN/Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
gute aussichten
Haus der Fotografie, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Landesmuseum Koblenz
JURY/MENTORING/TEACHING
Guest Lecturer at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
SOLO SHOWS
Sunrise to Sunrise (Tricksters) EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin
REST IN PEACE Simulation
Nanfei Bar, hosted by
Times Museum's Huangbian Station Contemporary Art Research Center (HBS), Guangzhou
Nichts als Solide Synnika, Frankfurt am Main
GROUP SHOWS
Art Auction 11, WESERHALLE, Berlin
gute aussichten Kunsthalle Pfaffenhofen
gute aussichten PHOXXI, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
stretching across time and space University of Applied Arts Vienna
minding the gap ARS AVANTI, Leipzig
Nichts als Solide OpenEyes Filmfest Marburg
When The Atmosphere Is Less Than Perfect MZIN/Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig
ZENTRUM Kunstraum IDEAL, Leipzig
Wunderblock BETA DOCK 20 – Kunstraum und Sammlung Hollenstein, Lustenau
gute aussichten
Haus der Fotografie, Festung Ehrenbreitstein, Landesmuseum Koblenz
2525 SPOILER Berlin
tender intelligences (im)Mutable Studio, Los Angeles
Edizione Multicolore #7 HALLE 14, Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig
gute aussichten Künstlerhaus Dortmund
Berge Versetzen GRASSI Museum, Leipzig
ARCIPELAGO Église APS, Palermo
DOSIS II Institut für Zukunft, Leipzig
بوخنفالد مسيرة صوتية Buchenwald. Ein Audiowalk. Buchenwald. An Audio Walk. بوخن ولد . یک پیاده روی صوت Buchenwald. Bir Audiowalk. Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials
Instability — Planetary Transformations FIBER Festival, Amsterdam
Cinema Hamlet #1, Five Weeks of Moving Image exploring Transformation HAMLET, Zurich
Cartographies of the Vanishing Now WAAG, Amsterdam
JURY/MENTORING/TEACHING
Guest Lecturer at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW
In the Loop – On Artificial Intelligence and Time Dreaming Beyond AI, ifa – Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kampnagel
Digitales Labor#2 HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
Reassemble Lab: Weaving With Worlds FIBER, Amsterdam
PUBLICATIONS
DOCK 20
Wunderblock BETA No. 1
Catalog, 2023
TALKS/PANELSOn digital art, AI, post-colonial art practice and storytelling with digital media
Rooted Resurgence – Reimagining Collections HGK Basel FHNW, Switzerland
DOCK 20
Wunderblock BETA No. 1
Catalog, 2023
Publisher: DOCK 20, Lustenau
ISBN: 978-3-99153-042-8
Techne-Mythologies. Topophilia, Identity and Virtuality — An attempt of Self-Empowerment through World-Building
Artist Book
2022
Publisher: Edizione Multicolore
ISBN: 978-3-948304-16-4
Metaverses and Borderlands
Article/Feminist Tech Vision
2022
In: Feminist Tech Principles, SUPERRR LAB
www.superrr.net
Körper - Kunst - Sexismus
Podium Discussion
2022
in: POSITION 2022— Forum und Ausstellung; Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Hamburg
ISBN: 978-3-930225-12-5
www.bbk-hamburg.de
Nichts Als Solide
(Nothing but Solid)
Catalog
In: gute aussichten - new german photography 2021/2022
ISBN: 978-3-9819355
www.2022.guteaussichten.org
Chapter I - Landscape
Catalog
2021
In: WHEN THE ATMOSPHERE IS LESS THAN PERFECT
Ed.: Anna Perepechai, Fabio Aranzulla, Felix Pacholleck, Julia Perkuhn, Tess Marschner
TALKS/PANELSOn digital art, AI, post-colonial art practice and storytelling with digital media