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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, species and materials, develops its own cartographic technologies: systems for connecting across distances. Through fragmentary point cloud scans and their materialization in space, she creates multi-layered installations made of wax, textiles, and digital fragments that invite encounter.
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 26-27. Her work has recently been shown at Belvedere 21 Vienna, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur, EIGEN+ART Lab Berlin, and at the 18th International Triennial of Textile in Łódź. She teaches process design at HGK Basel FHNW. An artist's book will be published by DISTANZ in 2026.
www.vanessaopoku.com