To live
is to choose.

Contemporary art from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, shown where sustainability needs faces and stories.

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The World · Coast near Takoradi, Ghana, from “Feeling the Ocean’s Voice”. Click “choose” for another film.

“To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.”
Kofi Annan. Our name comes from this sentence.

Since 2018We started as a gallery in Stuttgart with seven painters from Ghana. Today we curate exhibitions that bring artists from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa to places where people talk about sustainability.

Three themesIdentity, learning and the world we share. Every artist, film and exhibition on this site belongs to one of them.

Theme 1

Identity

Where we come from and what we carry. The carved doors of the Benin Kingdom, painted again by Imoniavwodo Efe Israel.

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Theme 2

Learning

Education as the ground for everything else. Workshop Week at the Baobab Children Foundation, Cape Coast.

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Theme 3

The World

Oceans, textiles and the planet we share. Kobina Nyarko has painted the sea at Takoradi for more than twenty years.

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Lighthouse project · since 2020

How to Heal a Broken World

Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku sews discarded clothes into one growing ribbon and takes it from Ghana’s textile landfills to castles, ships and museums in Europe. We are his partner in Europe.

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Films

Short documentaries we made with our artists in Ghana and Nigeria.

The World · Kobina Nyarko

Feeling the Ocean’s Voice

Filmed in Takoradi in 2024. Kobina paints from the shore where the nets now bring in plastic as well as fish.

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Identity · Imoniavwodo Efe Israel

The Carved Legacy

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Learning · Baobab Children Foundation

Workshop Week

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Works

Paintings and objects from our artists. Every work is available on request. Click a work to look closer.

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Exhibitions for companies

We curate exhibitions for your headquarters, your trade fair stand or your customer centre, and we bring the ribbon to your site. The artists’ themes become part of how you talk about sustainability.

  1. Nov 2025Piscina & Wellness, BarcelonaWater. Made Visible. on the stand of SPECK Pumpen
  2. Jul 2025Galerie WELTRAUM, MunichEarth in Orbit, group exhibition
  3. Jun 2025Schloss Augustusburg, SaxonyStation of How to Heal a Broken World during the makers united residency
  4. Nov 2024Stadtgalerie Alte Post, SyltKobina Nyarko, with Sylter Kunstfreunde and school workshops
  5. Jul 2023Town Hall, WürzburgGodwin Adjei Sowah and his students, for the Baobab Children Foundation
  6. 2020/21Porsche Development Centre, WeissachSolo exhibition by Enam Bosokah on three floors
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