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Vanessa Amoah Opoku is a German-Ghanaian interdisciplinary artist investigating technologies of diaspora through immersive installations that create hybrid physical-digital spaces. Working with touch-based methodologies, her practice examines how diaspora creates its own technologies and infrastructures, and how imperial tools can be transformed from instruments of surveillance into means of relation.
She studied Book Art and Graphic Design, Art and Digital Media, and Photography and Moving Image in Leipzig, Vienna, and Jerusalem, completing her Meisterschülerin studies at Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig in 2024. Her work has been exhibited at institutions including Belvedere 21 Vienna, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Fotomuseum Winterthur, EIGEN+ART Lab Berlin, and currently at the 18th International Triennial of Textile in Łódź, PL.
She was nominated for the S+T+ARTS Prize 2025 by the European Commission and Ars Electronica and has been selected for BPA// Berlin program for artists 26-27. She co-curates Balance Club Culture Festival, is part of the collective PARA, teaches Process Design and contributes to Critical Media Lab at HGK Basel FHNW. An artist book with DISTANZ is forthcoming in fall 2026. She lives and works in Berlin and Basel.
www.vanessaopoku.com