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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 has served as the art curator for 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 Design, Art and Digital Media, and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design Jerusalem. In 2021, she obtained her Diploma in Fine Arts and finished her Meisterschüler*innen studies (post-grad) in 2024, under the guidance of Prof. Tina Bara at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig.
Opoku is currently a guest lecturer at Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, has been the recipient of a scholarship from Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation and research grant of Fonds Darstellende Künste. She won "gute aussichten – new german photography" award, PLAYGROUND ART PRIZE and Kunstpreis Delmenhorst. Her work has been exhibited, among others, at Kunstverein Ulm, Belvedere 21 Vienna, Berlínskey Model Prague, nGbK Berlin, Staatstheater Nürnberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Grassi Museum Leipzig, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, (im)Mutable Studio Los Angeles, and in solo exhibitions at Synnika Frankfurt, Times Museum's Huangbian Station Contemporary Art Research Center (HBS) in Guangzhou, China, and EIGEN+ART Lab, Berlin.
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