Nubuke Foundation is an art foundation in East Legon in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. It was established in April 2006.

Exhibitions

Time, Trade & Travel

The

Time, Trade & Travel Project 1975 started in 2010 as a two-year project based in the Netherlands with the intent to explore the relationships between contemporary art and postcolonialism. Through this project Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) explored the ro ...

took place at

Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) is a project space for contemporary art in Amsterdam, Netherlands. SMBA was founded in 1993 and is part of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. It is the uccessor of Museum Fodor, a platform for young Amsterdam ...

from 25 August to 21 October 2012 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the context of

Project 1975 Project 1975 started in 2010 as a two-year project based in the Netherlands with the intent to explore the relationships between contemporary art and postcolonialism. Through this project Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (SMBA) explored the ro ...

and was organised in collaboration with the Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana. Under the broad umbrella of a title-

, the history of Ghana's encounter with the Netherlands was being examined by 4 Ghanaian and 5 Dutch artists (

Bernard Akoi-Jackson Bernard Akoi–Jackson (born 1979), is a Ghanaian academic, artist and writer. He is known for projects that are in continual metamorphosis. His art works are mostly performative, or pseudo-rituals. His writings are focused on the development of c ...

, Dorothy Akpene Amenuke,

Serge Attukwei Clottey Serge Attukwei Clottey (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist who works across installation, performance, photography and sculpture. He is the creator of Afrogallonism, an artistic concept, which he describes as 'an artistic concept to explore the r ...

, Zachary Formwalt,

Iris Kensmil Iris Kensmil (born 1970, Amsterdam) is a Dutch artist of Surinamese descent. In 1996 she obtained her degree from the Academie Minerva in Groningen. In 2017 Kensmil participated in the exhibition ''Zwart en Revolutionair'' (Black and Revolutiona ...

, Aukje Koks, Navid Nuur, Jeremiah Quarshie, kari-kacha seid’ou and Katarina Zdjelar).

Du Bois in Our Time

An exhibition on the legacy of W.E.B. Du Bois organised by University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Massachusetts in 2012 n collaboration with Nubuke Foundation

References

External links

Nubuke Foundation Website

Arts Collaboratory
{{Authority control Cultural organisations based in Ghana Arts organizations based in Africa