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Vanessa Amoah Opoku is a German-Ghanaian interdisciplinary artist who transforms imperial surveying technologies such as LiDAR into relational tools. Her practice explores how diaspora and displacement, affecting bodies and materials, develops its own technologies of relation. Through fragmentary point cloud scans assembled from multiple locations and times, she creates multi-layered installations of wax, textile, and digital fragments that invite encounter.
Her work has been shown at Belvedere 21 Vienna, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur, EIGEN+ART Lab Berlin, the 18th International Triennial of Textile in Łódź, and the 9th Triennial of Photography Hamburg. She has been nominated for the European Commission’s and Ars Electronica’s S+T+ARTS Prize 2025, and is part of BPA// Berlin Program for Artists 2026–27 and FUTURES Photography 2026.
Opoku is a member of the Implosion Method Research Group at IfCAR, Zurich University of the Arts, and teaches process design at HGK Basel FHNW. An artist’s book co-developed with June Drevet will be published by DISTANZ in September 2026.
www.vanessaopoku.com