Ibrahim Mahama (artist)

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] 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.[5]

Ibrahim Mahama
Born1987 (age 33–34)
Tamale, Northern Ghana
NationalityGhanaian
EducationKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
OccupationArtist

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]

Exhibitions

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[6]

In 2019, he started the Savannah Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Tamale.[7]

Ibrahim Mahama 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] In his installations and wall based works, Mahama considers the ways in which capital and labor are expressed in common materials. Included in the 2015 Venice Biennale, Mahama is best known for his use of jute sacks, cloth bags once used to carry cocoa and now employed as vessels for coal. He is also a painter and sculptor. Ibrahim Mahama's spectacular installations of sewn coal sacks are the result of his investigation of the conditions of supply and demand in African markets. The final product – the art – is equally displayed in market places thus defying the artifacts' intrinsic value system.

Mahama's works are presented in Ghanaian markets and galleries although his works provide a critical reflection to the value system inherent to his materials.[2]

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITION YEAR LOCATION COUNTRY
Fragments[9] 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
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
EXHIBITION YEAR LOCATION COUNTRY
Documenta 14 2017 Athens

kassel

 GREECE GERMANY
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK.

All The World's Futures, Arsenale, 56th Biennale di Venezia,

Pangaea II New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery

Edson Chagas / Ibrahim Mahama

Material Effects

Silence between the Lines: Anagrams of emancipated Futures, K.N.U.S.T, Jackson, Ghana.

2015 London

Biennale de venezia

Saatachi Gallery,London

Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University, Michigan

Contemporary Art Centre

 UK

ITALY

UK

ITALY

USA

GHANA

Pangaea New Art from Africa and Latin America 2014 Saatchi Gallery, London UK
Masked and Unmasked Dak’Art OFF, Saint Louis SENEGAL
The Divine Comedy Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt GERMANY
Illumination, Installation 2011 K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi GHANA
Hatching Out 2009 K.N.U.S.T Museum, Kumasi GHANA

References
  1. "5 Contemporary Artists in Ghana". AsiwomeWrites.Com. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  2. "Ibrahim Mahama", Contemporary And (C&).
  3. "Ibrahim Mahama - "A Friend" - Milan | My Art Guides". myartguides.com. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  4. Gallery. "Tyburn".
  5. "Tyburn Gallery". Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  6. "The 100 most influential Africans (71-80)". The Africa Report.com. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  7. "The Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) | Contemporary And". contemporaryand.com (in German). Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  8. Youngs, Ian (9 July 2019). "The artist building a parliament with train seats". BBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  9. "Ibrahim Mahama – Artist's Profile – The Saatchi Gallery". saatchigallery.com. Retrieved 6 July 2019.

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