Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh

Kwasi Ohene-Ayeh, Ph.D., is a curator, critic, and educator based in Kumasi, Ghana. He is a key member of the blaxTARLINES coalition whose work in the fields of pedagogy, criticism, curating, and art stretches across teaching at the Department of Painting & Sculpture, KNUST, to running the peer-led, schizo-pedagogical, and inoperative art school project called CritLab since 2020 as a member Exit Frame Collective in Ghana. He also co-organises Kelas Bareng—an experimental educational project managed between Gudskul, blaxTARLINES, Städelschule, and FiK (Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg) which featured at documenta fifteen (2022). Ohene-Ayeh is curator of Fragments of A World After Its Own Image (2025) at APALAZZOGALLERY in Brescia, and co-curator of the 12th edition of Bamako Encounters: Biennale of African Photography (2019-2020); Akutia: Blindfolding the Sun and the Poetics of Peace (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’) (2020-2021); TRANSFER(S), Ibrahim Mahama’s site-oriented research and exhibition project commissioned by Kunsthalle Osnabrück in Germany and Ghana (2023); and the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Graphic Arts Biennale with Exit Frame Collective (2023-2024). His edited publications include TRANSFER(S) (2024), Mahama’s recent monograph published by Distanz, and From the void came gifts of the cosmos: a reader (2023) the official reader for the 35th edition of the Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts. His published essays have featured in ArtReview, E-flux Architecture, African Arts journal, and several others. He actively publishes articles on his blog: www.iubeezy.wordpress.com.