Artist Portrait by Yaw Britwum
Elolo Bosoka is a Ghanaian artist who works and lives between Tefle, Accra, and Kumasi. With his installations, short films, objects, drawings, and ‘see-through’ soft sculptures, Bosoka appropriates items from corners of the mundane urban environment to engage with notions of art as place, economic exchange, materiality, and history.
He 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 Art, 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, where he is currently pursuing his PhD.
Solo exhibitions include ‘Rectangles and extensions… (2024), 'Objects in Situations II' (2023) at Clemens Thimme Galerie, 'Objects in Situations; Excerpts from a New Life' at Clemens Thimme Galerie, Germany (2022), and 'Lines, Planes and Ridges in Between' in Ghana (2018). Bosoka has participated in numerous group exhibitions such as 'POLY, A Fluid Show' (2023-2024) at the Kindl Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, curated by Solvej Ovesen; 'Meet Cute' in Germany (2022); 'Surplus' in Copenhagen (2022); 'AAA: Salon de Refusé' in Chicago, USA and Darmstadt, Germany (2022); and others.
Currently A Prince Claus Building Beyond Cycle 3 [Fellow]