Artista, Investigador/Docente

Kwame Sousa

1980 en Santo Tome y Principe

Datos generales
Sin Algoritmo AI

Profesionales que le han comisariado:

Leonor Veiga en:

Reflexes, 2023

Ferias en las que participa con OBRA :

AKAA - Also known As Africa 2023

Galerías y otras organizaciones que le representan:

Movart

Etiquetas:

Arte Africano Multidisciplina Pintura

Enlaces oficiales:

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Descripción del Artista

Kwame Sousa was born in Hospital Agostinho Neto, São Tomé and Príncipe (STP), in April 1980. He is a truly multidisciplinary artist who explores a wide range of media, techniques and styles. Influenced by colleagues, Kwame developed a taste for art at the end of pre-university education, and then he began drawing. In 2000, Kwame was developing an interesting language in his paintings, and he was selected for ‘Projeto Experecimento 01’, which marked his first public exhibition at Galeria ‘Teia de Arte’ in STP. In 2002, his work was showcased at Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal, and then he held several individual and collective exhibitions in STP and other countries. In 2003, Kwame Sousa began his academic career in Portugal, having studied at Escola de Artes e Oficinas do Espetáculo (EPAOE) of Chapitô, and then at Escola de Artes Visuais (AR.CO), where he studied painting and drawing. More recently, as part of the project “REINO ... ANGOLAR”, he participated in “Bienal del SUR” in Venezuela. As part of the same project, he also participated in exhibitions at Droog Gallery, Holland, and other international art venues. In 2014, Kwame Sousa participated in the Venice Architecture Biennale and in the Arquiteturas Film Festival Lisboa with the video “Mionga-House”. Having held exhibitions at several galleries around the world and participated in the “Luanda Triennale”, “Bamako Film and Art Festival” and various editions of STP ‘“Biennale”, Kwame Sousa belongs to the third generation of artists from his country, being considered one of the most influential contemporary visual artists in the international scene representing STP. Recently, he inaugurated Ateliê M, the first school of visual arts in São Tomé and Príncipe. The creation of Project Ateliê M – Informal School of Visual Arts arises based on the understanding of the role of visual arts as human, social and economic development capital; source of self-esteem, vertical solidarity and social cohesion, favoring the emotional perception of belonging to an identity, self-knowledge, freedom of speech and intercultural dialogue as social values. Its goal is to contribute to the development of visual arts in São Tomé and Príncipe by creating and implementing an Informal School of Visual Arts, which is intended to be a reference center for santomean artistic education.