Ghana Pavilion at Venice Biennale '19

There is nothing better than many creative parts coming together to make a whole, especially with the work of these young artists paving the way for new narratives, languages, technologies & forms. BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 7 | "Veil" by Na Chainkua Reindorf 📽️: @nlcgh

By Day 6, The artists & team finally felt hopeful after days of challenges setting up the Ghana Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 🎉 #almostthere BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 6 📽️: @nlcgh #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #VeniceBiennale #LaBiennale #BlackStar #Ghana #Freedom

BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 5 | The Veil & The Fufuzela created by Na Chainkua Reindorf (@ncreindorf). Thank you to the superstars of @modernforms, Federico & Vladimir @christojeanneclaude for stepping in when we most needed it & helping to install this beautiful piece 📽️: @nlcgh

"...In Venice, the most beautiful thing was that we got so much support. We didn't have installers or producers; all these people kept coming in, helping us to bead & install things - I mean, it was incredible." –@OforiattaAyim #BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 4 📽️: @nlcgh

BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 3 | "Veil" designed by Na Chainkua Reindorf (@ncreindorf) And we managed to celebrate DK Osseo-Asare @dkoa & his birthday on site 😏 📽️: @nlcgh #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #VeniceBiennale #LaBiennale #BlackStar #Ghana #Freedom #Afroscope #BTS

We all worked together to overcome the challenges and obstacles we faced putting together the Ghana Pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Here's an insight into some of that process. BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 2 📽️: @nlcgh #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #VeniceBiennale

The 2022 @la_Biennale has come to a close, come with us on a week-long #bts journey of how we put together Ghana's 2nd pavilion at the #BiennaleArte2022: Black Star - The Museum as Freedom. BTS: #GhanaInVenice Day 1 | "Fufuzela" by DK Osseo Asare (@dkoa) 📽️: @nlcgh

Congratulations to the #BlackStars(@blackstarsofghana_) on your win today! The Ghana Pavilion at the #BiennaleArte2022: Black Star - The Museum as Freedom, references the team, our flag, our links to the diasporas for their symbolic strength & unity. #Qatar2022 #FIFAWorldCup

Nana Oforiatta Ayim (@OforiattaAyim) is a Writer, Filmmaker, Art Historian & Founder of @ANOghana, through which she has pioneered a Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia, a Mobile Museums Project, & curated Ghana’s 1st pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (@la_Biennale).

"...we have been sidelined, marginalised, and spoken for for so long? At least here we get to define ourselves and our place in the world, or at least a few of us can, those who have understood these codes of belonging, within this rarified world of expression." –@OforiattaAyim

...anyone can put them together. DK Osseo-Asare (@dkoa) is the co-founding principal of Low Design Office (LOWDO) (@lowdesignoffice), a trans-Atlantic architecture and integrated design studio based in Ghana and Texas. #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #VeniceBiennale

Like music and food, the idea of the installation in Venice created by architect DK Osseo-Asare (@dkoa) in what he calls the "fufuzela" – originating from "fufu", a Ghanaian dish, is something that everybody has access to – because they're open-source; they're modular;...

...unfortunately it could not be shown in its full iteration because of financial constraints. Diego Araúja (@diegoarauja) is an artist born in Salvador-BA, Brazil, where he lives and works as an artist, director, and writer. #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #VeniceBiennale

Diego Araúja’s work for the #BiennaleArte2022, was "A Congress of Salt", in which the Atlantic Ocean that served to separate those taken from the shores of West Africa to its diasporas, now acts as a unifier, the birthplace of a new creole...

Afroscope is a speculative artist/designer for whom art-making is an attempt to deconstruct normative reality and challenge popular tropes by imagining transcendental visual narratives that comprise otherworldly beings, speculative dreamscapes & peculiar forms. #GhanaInVenice

At the #BiennaleArte2022, Afroscope (@afroscope_) takes the notion of oneness even further in his work Ashe, which explores the spirit that runs through all the elements, using technology as a translator of the flow of life, as exemplified by water. #VeniceBiennale #BlackStar

Attendance record for the #BiennaleArte2022: with over 800,000 tickets sold, it is the most visited Exhibition in our 127-year history! In thanking all our visitors, we remind you that #TheMilkOfDreams closes tomorrow, Sunday 27 November. labiennale.org/en/news/bienna…

Na Chainkua Reindorf is a mixed media artist and mythmaker. Her work, which ranges from large-scale tapestries to immersive sculptural installations, is an exploration of/an ode to the rich cultural history of West African textiles. #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #LaBiennale

For her exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Na Chainkua Reindorf takes masquerade and secret society traditions that historically were largely male, & creates her own mythology of Mawu Nyonu, a fictional secret society made of seven women, at one with the elements around them.

"With "Black Star: the Museum as Freedom," it's the idea of, How do we create freedom for ourselves now & in the future?" –Nana Oforiatta Ayim (@OforiattaAyim), Artnet (@artnet) #GhanaInVenice #BiennaleArte2022 #LaBiennale #Afroscope #NaChainkuaReindorf #DiegoArauja #DKOsseo