About
photo by Calvin Hein
Nando Nkrumah
Nando Nkrumah is a painter and interventionist artist based in Cologne.
Born 1979 in Kumasi, Ghana, and raised in Germany, he has always moved between cultures — and it is precisely from this in-between space that his art draws its strength.
At the heart of his practice is painting: a place of retreat where personal narratives, memory, and cultural heritage become visible. Traditional symbolism meets contemporary visual language — pre-colonial visuality, carried forward into the present and the future.
Alongside this, he has been working for years on site-specific interventions in public space, in particular with Augmented Reality works that disrupt established narratives in museums, at monuments, and in urban environments.
His interventions have been shown at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Charlottenburg Palace, and the Chale Wote Festival in Accra, among others. His first institutional solo exhibition took place in 2024 at the Max Ernst Museum in Brühl.
Nkrumah's process: Imagine. Materialise. Witness. — a cycle he calls Authentism. Art as a space for healing, empowerment, and freedom.