Artist Portrait by Khalifa Hussein
Elolo Bosoka is an artist-producer exploring poetic connections through cultural infrastructures and everyday life. He is acclaimed for luminous, delicate installations made from rough, common materials, and for elevating his peers at blaxTARLINES KUMASI and beyond. Drawing from markets, meanderings, mass productions, and personal influences, he maintains a democratized approach that blends the ordinary with the intimate.
Bosoka received his BFA and MFA from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. In 2022, he was awarded the Baden-Württemberg Stipendium Scholarship to study at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe, Germany. Bosoka is a member of blaxTARLINES KUMASI— the project space and contemporary art incubator of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana.
Notable solo exhibitions include What he saw sees when he went goes strolling (Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana, curated by Bernard Akoi-Jackson, 2024), Rectangles and extensions… (Oduom Kumasi Ghana, 2024), 'Objects in Situations; Excerpts from a New Life' at Clemens Thimme Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2022. Group exhibitions include Constellations Part 2: Figures in Webs and Ripples of Space (Gallery 1957 Accra Ghana, 2024), Catch the invisible Part 2 (Dak’Art biennale, organized by Galerie Atiss Dakar, 2024), A little like a dream: suspended in time and space (National Museum, Accra Ghana, 2023/24), POLY; A Fluid Show (Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin Germany, 2023/24), 'Surplus' (Collega Copenhagen Denmark, 2022), Diversity in Art and Culture: Vision or Reality? (ZAK Zentrum für Aktuelle Kunst, Spandau Berlin Germany, 2023), AAA: Salon de Refusé (Chicago, USA and Darmstadt, Germany, 2022).
Currently in residency at BlackRock, Dakar, Senegal.