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Vanessa Amoah Opoku is a German-Ghanaian interdisciplinary artist exploring history, digitality, and marginalized narratives through mixed realities. She uses art, science, and technology to challenge conventional notions of innovation and future visions. Her primary artistic tools include 3D scans, video, sculpture, performance, and sound.
Opoku is part of the artist collective PARA, which uses an interdisciplinary, research-based and performative approach to explore various phenomena of globalization and politics of memory. Since 2021, she co-curates the Balance Club Culture Festival, a platform that examines the political significance of club culture, its role within various communities, and its contributions to technological and cultural progression.
She studied Book Art and Graphic/System Design, Art and Digital Media, and Photography in Leipzig, Vienna, and Jerusalem. In 2021, she obtained her Diploma in Fine Arts and finished her Meisterschülerinnen studies (artist distinction) in 2024, under the guidance of Prof. Tina Bara at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
Opoku has had solo exhibitions at EIGEN+ART Lab in Berlin, Synnika in Frankfurt a. M. and in Guangzhou, hosted by the HBS Research Centre of the Times Museum. Opoku has exhibited and showcased at institutions such as Belvedere 21 Vienna, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur and Staatstheater Nürnberg. Recently, she has been nominated for the S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 of the European Commission and Ars Electronica. In addition to her artistic practice, Opoku teaches at HGK Basel FHNW, Institute Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), among others. She lives and works in Berlin and Basel.
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