Drawing on his Ghanaian roots, Larry Achiampong's projects employ imagery, aural and visual archives, live performance and sound to explore ideas surrounding class, cross-cultural and post-digital identity. With the expansion and sharing of information via the Internet, the idea of a one- size-fits-all version of history, as previously dictated, continues to be eradicated. Achiampong crate-digs the vaults of history, and splices audible and visual qualities of the personal and interpersonal archives offering multiple positions revealing the socio-political contradictions in contemporary society. Achiampong’s works examine his communal and personal heritage - in particular, the intersection between pop culture and the postcolonial position, using performance to investigate ‘the self’ as a fiction, devising alter-egos to point at divided selves.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Project a Black Planet: The Art And Culture of PanAfrica, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA, upcoming), travelling exhibition to Barbican, London, MACBA, Madrid, and KANAL-Pompidou, Brussels; Manifesta 15, Barcelona (Spain, 2024); Choose your Player: Gaming from Dice to Pixel, Zeppelin Museum (Germany, current); Sculpture in the Park, Compton Verney (UK, current); A Letter, A Pledge, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (UK); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (Kosovo); soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea); Wayfinder, Turner Contemporary, travelling exhibition at MK Gallery and BALTIC (UK); and Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, London (UK).
If It Don't Exist, Build It, a major monograph of Achiampong's practice published by Tate, will be released in February 2025.
His work is held in collections internationally, including Tate (UK), UK Government Art Collection, British Council Collection, The Sindika Dokolo Collection (Luanda, Angola), FRAC Bretagne (France), Servais Family Collection (Brussels, Belgium).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Recent and upcoming projects include: Project a Black Planet: The Art And Culture of PanAfrica, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA, upcoming), travelling exhibition to Barbican, London, MACBA, Madrid, and KANAL-Pompidou, Brussels; Manifesta 15, Barcelona (Spain, 2024); Choose your Player: Gaming from Dice to Pixel, Zeppelin Museum (Germany, current); Sculpture in the Park, Compton Verney (UK, current); A Letter, A Pledge, Stanley Picker Gallery, London (UK); Manifesta 14, Prishtina (Kosovo); soft and weak like water, 14th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea); Wayfinder, Turner Contemporary, travelling exhibition at MK Gallery and BALTIC (UK); and Sixty Years: The Unfinished Conversation, Tate Britain, London (UK).
If It Don't Exist, Build It, a major monograph of Achiampong's practice published by Tate, will be released in February 2025.
His work is held in collections internationally, including Tate (UK), UK Government Art Collection, British Council Collection, The Sindika Dokolo Collection (Luanda, Angola), FRAC Bretagne (France), Servais Family Collection (Brussels, Belgium).
For his most recent solo exhibition with the gallery please click here.
For his most recent group show with the gallery please click here.
Larry Achiampong, The Expulsion, 2019, Installation view at Manifesta 14 Prishtina. Photo credit: Majlinda Hoxha
Larry Achiampong, Speckle #1, 2020, C-Type Print, 66 x 48.4 cm, Tate Collection, London
Larry Achiampong, WayFinder: Larry Achiampong and JMW Turner, 2022-2023, 4K Video 83’35”
Larry Achiampong, Reliquary 2, 2019, Single Channel 4K video with stereo sound. Commissioned by John Hansard Gallery.
Larry Achiampong, Relic 2, 2019 4k Video, 10'50''. The film was made possible with funding from Arts Council England.
Larry Achiampong, WayFinder: Larry Achiampong and JMW Turner, 2022-2023, Installation view at Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
Larry Achiampong, #Captain America's superpower is aryan privilege, Chalk on blackboard fixed with archival varnish, 100 x 100 cm
Larry Achiampong, Pan African Flag for the Relic Travellers’ Alliance (Ascension), 2017, Installation view at Somerset House, London
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