Curriculum Vitae
Date of Birth: 18/09/1981
Place of Birth: Ho, Volta, Ghana
Nationality: Ghanaian
Other External Links
- https://vimeo.com/crazinistartist
- https://www.facebook.com/crazinisTartisT/
- https://www.instagram.com/crazinist_artist
- https://www.youtube.com/@crazinistartist6524/videos
Education
- 2015-2017: MFA (abD) -Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- 2010-2014: BFA-(Painting)- Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
- 2003-2006: Cert ‘A’ Teacher Education, Amedzofe E.P. Teacher Training College
Profession
- 2018 - Date: Artistic Director and Curator (perfocraZe International Artists Residency [pIAR], Kumasi, Ghana)
- 2012 - Date: Multidisciplinary Artists, crazinisT artisT studiO, Kumasi, Ghana
- 2006 - 2010 : Professional Teacher, Ghana Education Service, Ho-Takla, Ghana
Curatorial Works
2022
- BODIES AT WORK, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
2021
- or·ga·nis·mus, Alliance Francaise, Kumasi
- Witnesses Memories, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
- Beyond The Graves, Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
- X:7 Group Exhibition, Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
2020
- reinKarnatorX, Kumasi
- Forgiven Spaces, Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence -pIAR, Kumasi
2019
- “Pidgin Imaginarium”, Chale Wote Art Festival, Accra
- “ADeakyeabia” Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, Alliance Francaise Accra, pIAR August 2019
- “Ignite” Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR July, 2019
- “Tomorrow” Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, Alliance Francaise Accra, pIAR June 2019
- ‘noW or neveR’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR May 2019
- ‘Open House Performance’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR April 2019
- ‘so URgent 000’ Group Exhibition for Artists in Residence, pIAR Feb 2019
2018
- Prism of Freedom, The One Minute Film, Amsterdam, Netherland.
EXHIBITIONS/PERFORMANCES
2023
- Sacred Space, Sacred Bodies, (Collaboration with SU-EN) Uppsala Sweden
2022
- "Before Dawn' VFDalston, London UK
- Kall for Healing, Birmingham UK
- Ata-Ku, Documenta 15, kasel Germany
- Reading and moderation, Gorki Theatre, Berlin Germany
- the KOVENANT II, Berlin, Germany
- INTI-mate HealinG, Berlin Germany
- the KOVENANT, Berlin, Germany
- Kall for Healing, Bern Switzerland
- INTI-mate HealinG II, Bern Switzerland
- My body, My Colour, Bern Switzerland
- The Biggest Monument of Love, Bern switzerland
2021
- Un(EARth)ing w-E-story, inventory Platform, UK
- gray-healings-grey-bodies, Santarcangelo Festival, Italy
- Holier-Than-Thou, Kumasi, public performance
- 2020
- Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE, Forecast Platform, Berlin
- uNTAMED reALITIES, Online performance, Out of Site Chicago
- Black is rED, Forecast_Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE
- I KAn’t brEAThe, Forecast_Emergency CODE: pAUSE and pULSE
- Oga LANDLORD…, Intervention, Kumasi, Ghana
2019
- RItual reALITies, Slought, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- WouNded wouNds IV, Centro Niemeyer, Aviles Spain
- aʋa_Si_mi, Oviedo University, Spain
- dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBiikus III, Black Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Strikethrough III, Black Art Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- tO liVE, we dIED, Camargo Foundation, Cassis France
- Table of Negotiation collaboration with John Herman, Chale Wote, Accra
- Borderless Ocean, Collaboration with Gloria Godinez, Chale Wote, Accra
- Strikethrough, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
- agbanWu, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
- dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBiikus, FIT Rio 2019, Rio Preto, Brazil
- Open source Performance, interval 10_PAErche Essen, Germany
- DONOTSAVEME, interval 10_PAErche Essen, Germany
- Intimate death, HFBK, Hamburg, Germany
- Lamentation. Kumasi Ghana
- nkwabiaahia _allLIVESmatter, Kumasi, Ghana
- WouNded wouNds III, online performance, Translucent, crazinisT artisT studiO,
- WouNded wouNds II, White Out Project NRW-Forum Dusseldorf
- tranSFiguration, perfocraZe International Artists Residency
2018
- “Voyage” Mindelact Festival, Cape Verde
- “Strikethrough”, steakhouse, London UK
- Performance Project and workshop, Cologne, Germany (In progress)
- “ouTcasT” The Rising’ ]Performance Space[ Folkestone, UK
- “The oatH_b” Munich, Germany
- ‘Untitled’ Berlin, Germany
- froZen series LagosPhotos Festival
- ‘the oatH’ Performance Art Festival Oerliker Park Zurich,
- “agbaWnu” at Chalewote Art Festival Accra Gh.
- ‘Lying awake’ Watermill Centre, New York, USA
- Passing Through-Act of Radical Empathy, Gallery 1957, Accra Ghana
- forgotten truth, participating in “Past Tells” a group show at Alliance Francaise Kumasi Ghana, curated by Michael Babanawo
- dZikudZikui-aBiku-aBikus, Oduom, Kumasi Ghana
- wouNded-wouNd, Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017
- How The Stars Were Made, Legon Botanical Garden, Accra, Ghana (A collaborative project (AfriQueer) with Drama for Life AFRICA Project from South Africa.)
- nativeimmiGrant III – efiewurasuame, ICAF2017 Iwaya, Lagos Nigeria
- inthemiddleofNowhere, Ruffi Haus Munich Germany
- The specter[less] specters - find the X, Haus Der Kunst, Munich, Germany
- nativeimmiGrant II, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
- iNisheahim, Villa Waldberta, Munich Germany
- stillDeath, Break Through #19 Munich Germany
- Bond[H2o], Duo performance by crazinisT artisT [Va-Bene Elikem Fiatsi] & John Herman CHALE WOTE Street Art Festival 2017 'WATA MATA' James Fort Prison, Accra, Ghana
- nativeimmiGrant, Performance at the Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) 17th Triennial Symposium 2017
- illiGalbody II, Black Star International Art Festival, Accra
- nazaKU, Accra, (Orderly Disorderly, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi)
- IlleGalbody, KNUST, Kumasi
- lettertotheChuRch I, KNUST Catholic Church, Kumasi
- lettertotheChuRch II, Roman Hill Catholic Church, Kumasi
- Rituals of Becoming, Gallery 1957, Accra, Ghana
2016
- rE·gen·er·at[e] Bone 19 Performance Art Festival, Bern
- chocolate kiss, Duo performance with Jazmin Taco, Schlachthaus, Bern Switzerland
- myBodyisaPrison... KNUST, Kumasi Ghana
- ‘frozen’ Cornfields in Accra’, (Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana by blaxTARLINES, Kumasi
- X in REd, ‘if you love me’... exhibition, Kumasi, Ghana
- ‘eAt me...’, performance with voluntary participating Students from the Department of Painting and Sculpture, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana
- reThinking-naZa, collaborative performance with the Security Department of KNUST, Ghana
2013-2015: https://www.crazinistartist.com/curriculum-vitae/
Residencies and workshops
- 2022 TURN2, ZKUBERLIN germany
- 2022, Pro Helvetia, Bern Switzerland
- 2019 Camargo Foundation, Visa of Creation Residency Cassis France.
- 2019 (June) Facilitator, "Anyienenye..." Performance Art workshop Figurentheater-Kolleg, Bochum, Germany
- 2019 (June) VR Workshop, the Alliance Francaise Accra
- 2019 (May) Body noise, crazinisT artisT studiO, Kumasi
- 2018 (October)-The Rising ]Performance Space[ Folkestone UK
- 2018 (July-August)- Watermills Summer Program, New York, USA
- 2017 (October-December)- Beyond Rituals, Villa Walberta, Munich, Germany
- 2015 (July-August)- TERRITOIRE DE CRÉATION 5ieme édition, Residency in Lome, Togo
- 2014 - Inkfluent’s Chale Wote (Because the Ancestors Live), Poetry Workshop, Accra, Ghana
Grants/Sponsorship/Awards
- 2022 TURN2, ZKUBERLIN germany
- 2022, Pro Helvetia, Switzerland
- 2022, Henrike Grohs Art Award
- Forecast Platform Mentorship Award, Germany
- 2019: Institut Francais, Camargo Foundation, France
- 2018: Art Moves Africa, Travel Grant, Mindelact, Cape Verde
- 2018: Prince Claus Fund, for Participating in Lost & Found performance Event, Paradiso, Amsterdam NL
- 2017: Goethe Institute Travel Fund: to attend a five-week Artist Residency, Munich, Germany
We no longer need school, we need education!
cTcT 2015