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Ibrahim Mahama (born in 1987) is a Ghanaian author and an artist[1] of monumental installations.[2][3] He lives and works in Tamale, Ghana.[4]

Ibrahim Mahama
Born	1987 (age 34–35) Tamale, Northern Region, Ghana
Nationality	Ghanaian
Education	Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
Occupation	Artist

Education

He obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting and Sculpture in 2013 and a bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Painting in 2010 at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.[1]

Career

He often works with found objects by transforming them in his practice and giving them new meanings. Mahama is best known for draping buildings in old jute sacks which he stitches together with a team of collaborators to create patchwork quilts. He was the youngest artist featured in the Ghana Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. His work was shown during the 56th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in Italy All The World’s Futures curated by Okwui Enwezor in 2015.[4]

Mahama shows his works in Ghanaian markets, as well as galleries. This is intended to provide a critical reflection on the value system inherent to his materials.[2] He is also a painter and sculptor.

In 2013, Stefan Simchowitz, along with Dublin gallerist Ellis King, sued Mahama. Mahama had been paid by the dealers, but refused to authenticate derivative works they produced from Mahama's installations of Ghanaian coal sacks. In 2016, Simchowitz settled with Mahama.[5][6]

In 2019, he started the Savannah Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale.[7] Mahama also repurposed 120 scratched second-class train seats through a parliament he calls the "parliament of ghost", a replica of Ghana's parliament chamber. The parliament of ghost was installed at the Whitworth Art gallery in Manchester.[8]

As part of his contribution to the development of Africa through art, Mahama was named the 73rd most influential African by theafricareport.com in the list of 100 most influential Africans 2019/2020[9]

Solo exhibitions

EXHIBITION	YEAR	LOCATION	COUNTRY
Garden of scars[10]	2022	De Oude Kerk, Amsterdam	NL
Lazarus[11]	2021	White Cube	UK
Fragments[12]	2017	White Cube	UK
Material Effects	2015	Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University	USA
Civil Occupation	2014	Ellis King, Dublin	IRELAND
Kawokudi Coal Sack Installation, Accra, Ghana Nima Coal Sack Installation, Accra, Ghana Adum Coal Sack Installation, Kumasi, Ghana Jute, What Is Art?	2013	Accra Accra Railway Station, Kumasi K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi	GHANA
Sisala Coal Market, Coal Sack Installation Trading Identities, Installation	2012	Newtown, Accra MFA Block, Kumasi	GHANA
The colonized body, Installation	2011	Kokomlemle, Accra	GHANA
Class and Identity, Installation, K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi, Ghana	2010	K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi	GHANA
Purity? Cultures of display, Installation	2009	Bomso, Kumasi	GHANA

Further reading

References

External links

Profile on the White Cube site

На других языках

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[de] Ibrahim Mahama

Ibrahim Mahama (* 1987 in Tamale, Ghana)[1] ist ghanaischer Konzept-, Objekt-, Aktions- und Performancekünstler. Er erarbeitet die Zusammenhänge von Raum und Politik.

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- [en] Ibrahim Mahama (artist)

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[fr] Ibrahim Mahama

Ibrahim Mahama (né à Tamale, au Ghana, en 1987) est un artiste contemporain ghanéen. Auteur d'installations et de performances et adepte de l'art conceptuel et de l'art action, il développe les relations entre l'espace et la politique. Considéré comme une figure majeure de l'art contemporain ghanéen, il est l'un des artistes africains les plus recherchés.

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