{"id":42662,"date":"2025-04-30T13:02:40","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/?post_type=news&#038;p=42662"},"modified":"2025-04-30T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T11:03:28","slug":"exhibition-opening-of-hands-that-speak-curated-by-kenneth-boa-amponsem-and-ofili-ebube-sett","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/news\/exhibition-opening-of-hands-that-speak-curated-by-kenneth-boa-amponsem-and-ofili-ebube-sett\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibition opening of \u00bbHands That Speak\u00ab, curated by Kenneth Boa-Amponsem and Ofili Ebube Sett"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"template":"","news_type":[664],"class_list":["post-42662","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_type-news-en"],"acf":{"bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","custom_color_css_variable":"","content_type":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":8,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\">Curated by current Solitude fellow Kenneth Boa-Amponsem and co-curated by former fellow Ofili Ebube Sett the exhibition <em>Hands That Speak<\/em> will be on view in the Strzelski Galerie until June 6.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\"><em>Hands That Speak<\/em> demonstrates how materials, textures, and forms function as carriers of individual histories, collective memories, and cultural narratives through a varied range of artists working with textiles, sound, painting, and photography. By bringing together six artists from Germany, Ghana, Nigeria, and Cameroon \u2013 all based in Stuttgart \u2013 it explores how their different and diverse perspectives shape their relationship towards craft and their approach to storytelling. This instigates a discussion about how perspective and identity are intertwined through both material culture and artistic expression.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-reckless-light\" style=\"font-family: 'Reckless Regular';\">During the exhibition, which is a part of the <em>Summer of Painting II<\/em> festival, Kenneth Boa-Amponsem will also be showing his pieces <em>Royalty<\/em>, <em>I\u2019m Too Bad, Baby<\/em>, and <em>Ama Ghana 2 The World<\/em>, which tell a mix of personal and cultural stories from his time in Ghana.<\/span>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_img","bgcolor":"","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":6,"img_gallery":true,"img":[42655,42657,42659,42661],"img_gallery_format":false},{"acf_fc_layout":"content_txt","bgcolor":"has-bg-yellow","bgcolor_custom":"","layout_col_size":12,"txt_cols":"is-1-txtcol","txt":"<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><strong>Kenneth Boa-Amponsem<\/strong> (Solitude fellow 2024\/2025, spatial sphere of practice) is a multidisciplinary artist and creative director based in Accra\/Ghana. His work spans both fine art and fashion, reflecting themes of freedom, unity, and national identity.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"has-font-maison-neue\" style=\"font-family: 'Maison Neue';\"><strong>Ofili Ebube Sett<\/strong> (Solitude fellow 2020\/2021, digital sphere of practice) is a technical artist specializing in video games and virtual reality art based in Nigeria. As a computer programmer, entrepreneur, researcher and guidance counselor, he is passionate about the use of digital arts to educate, modify behavior, and promote mental well-being.<\/span>"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/42662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.akademie-solitude.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_type?post=42662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}