To live
is to choose.
Contemporary art from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa, shown where sustainability needs faces and stories.
Ocean · Coast near Takoradi, Ghana, from “Feeling the Ocean’s Voice”. Click “choose” for another film.
To choose well
“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.
The sentence holds in every part of life. It is also the theme of our gallery: who we are, where we want to go and in which world we want to live. That is why all our artists work on questions of sustainability. We bring their work from the Global South to the North, to the places where people talk about the future. We started in 2018 as a gallery in Stuttgart with seven painters from Ghana.
Our story →People first.
Painters, sculptors and storytellers from Ghana, Nigeria and South Africa. Every work on this site starts with one of them.
Kobina NyarkoGhana- Imoniavwodo Efe IsraelNigeria
- Nyornuwofia AgorsorGhana
- Michael GahGhana
- Emmanuel Aggrey TiekuGhana
- Michelle “Mishvania” BeattieSouth Africa
- Isshaq IsmailGhana
- Kwesi BotchwayGhana
- Maxwell BoadiGhana
- Godwin Adjei SowahGhana
- Prof. Ablade GloverGhana
- Enam BosokahGhana
- Ben AgbeeGhana
- Lindele MsweliSouth Africa
Walk the wall.
Paintings and objects, hung at true scale. Scroll along, click a work, flip it to read its story.
A first walk
From the Benin Kingdom painted again to ocean plastic sorted by colour.
8 worksRainbow in the Atlantic OceanKobina NyarkoPlastic collected from the shore on canvas142 × 279 cm, 30 kg
The Oba’s AttendantImoniavwodo Efe IsraelAcrylic on canvas122 × 74 cm · 2023Available
Geometry at PlayNyornuwofia AgorsorAcrylic on canvas153 × 123 cm · 2018Available
ForbiddenKobina NyarkoAcrylic and fishing net on canvas81 × 114 cm · 2016Available
Blind to InjusticeLindele MsweliCharcoal and acrylic on paper100 × 70 cmAvailable
City LaceProf. Ablade GloverOil on canvas100 × 100 cmAvailable
Cup and ForkIsshaq IsmailAcrylic on canvas82 × 67 cm · 2017
Sunny FlowersKobina NyarkoAcrylic, mirror, plastic and bottle topsØ 101.5 cm · 2021
Discover the
Ocean’s Voice
Kobina Nyarko has painted the sea off Ghana for more than twenty years. Take a breath and dive with him, from the surface to where no light arrives, and back up again.
16framed works on tour
9film scenes
1,000 mone dive
What we build together.
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.
Baobab Children Foundation
A school for crafts and art in Ghana, and the friendship our story began with. Godwin Adjei Sowah teaches art there.
To choose well
- Who you areIdentityThe theme →The works →
- Where you want to goLearningThe theme →The works →
- Why you want to get thereOceanThe theme →The works →
Art where people meet.
- Nov 2025Water. Made Visible.Barcelona, on the stand of SPECK Pumpen
- Jul 2025Earth in OrbitGalerie WELTRAUM, Munich
- Nov 2024The Voice of the OceanStadtgalerie Alte Post, Sylt
- since 2019All exhibitions →
Exhibitions for companies
We curate exhibitions for your headquarters, your trade fair stand or your customer centre. The artists’ themes become part of how you talk about sustainability.