In the frame of Zohra Opokus new C& Artists’ Edition the artists speaks with C&’s Julia Grosse about her practice and current projects at Palais Populaire. The talk is part of this year’s Berlin Art Week.

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Zohra Opoku (b.1976, German and Ghanaian; lives and works in Accra, Ghana) is internationally recognized for her work with textile materials and the interweaving of historical and personal themes, particularly in the context of contemporary Ghana. Her work is collected by renowned institutions such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Tate Modern and most recently The Centre Pompidou.

Julia Grosse is co-founder and artistic director of the platform Contemporary And (C&). She is a lecturer at the Institute for Art in Context at the University of the Arts in Berlin and Strategic Advisor at the Gropius Bau. Grosse studied art history and worked as a columnist and arts journalist in London. She has written and co-edited several books and in 2020 was (together with Yvette Mutumba) winner of the prize “European Cultural Manager of the Year”. In 2023 she curated John Akomfrah’s first big institutional exhibition in Germany, “John Akomfrah. A Space of Empathy”.

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