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Ataa Oko

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Ataa Oko Addo
ninsala
Paɣa bee dooDoo Mali niŋ
O ya TiŋgbaŋGhana Mali niŋ
Doɣam dabsili1919 Mali niŋ
Dɔɣim TiŋaGhana Mali niŋ
Kpibu dabisili9 Silimin gɔli December 2012 Mali niŋ
Kpibu sheeAnkara Mali niŋ
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibuSilmiinsili Mali niŋ
Tumaartist, sculptor Mali niŋ
Has works in the collectionCollection de l'art brut, National Museum of Modern Art Mali niŋ
Copyright status as a creatorworks protected by copyrights Mali niŋ
Personal pronounL485 Mali niŋ
Ataa Oko and his third wife, with a coffin in the form of a battleship, about 1960

Ataa Oko Addo nyɛla ninvuɣuso bɛ dɔɣi yuuni 1919 ka o kani silimiingoli December dabaawai dali yuuni 2012 ni[1] o nyɛla Ghana bilichini sɔ ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din jendi binyɛra kpɛbu kpɛbu mini kum daadaka nim malibu, o yuun pihinii saha, o daa nyɛla ŋun leegi Art Brut.

Figurative palanquin, drawing of Ataa Oko 2010

Ataa Oko Addo, bɛ ni mi so ni Ataa Oko la, nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1919 Ghana tingbani yaɣishɛli beni ka di yuli booni ni La . O na ʒin chaŋ shikuru, amaa ka daa pun nyɛ ŋun tuundi tuma sahashɛli o ni daa na nyɛ yuun pinaa ata n tumdi kuli pali tali tuma Saha shɛli ha, o daa nyɛla bɛ ni zaŋ shɛli.[2][3]

Ataa Oko and Kudjoe Affutu with Okos red rooster coffin 2009

Single and group exhibitions

[mali niŋ | mali mi di yibu sheena n-niŋ]
  • 2025. Musée de la Réforme, Geneva: Voir l'invisible.
  • 2024/25. Museo delle Culture, Milan: Dubuffet e l'art brut - L'arte degli outsider.
  • 2023. Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva: Crysalide. Le rêve du Papillon.
  • 2022. Museum der Völker, Schwaz: Die Geister spielen Fussball. Zeichnungen und Skulpturen des ghanaischen Künstlers Ataa Oko Addo (1919-2012).
  • 2022. Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne: Croyances, 5th Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne.
  • 2020. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg: Mourning. On Loss and Change.
  • 2017/18. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne: Corps, 3rd Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne.
  • 2017. ANO Gallery of Nana Oforiatta Ayim in Accra: "Accra: Portraits of A City".
  • 2014. MUT Museum of the University Tübingen: "Diesseits-Jenseits-Abseits".
  • 2012. MEN Musée ethnographique Neuchâtel Hors-Champs.
  • 2011/12. Miracles of Africa, Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna and Oulu Museum of Art, Oma, Finland[4]
  • 2011. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. Ghanaian 'fantasy coffin', 27 September 2011 - 4 December 2011. Griff Rhys Jones.
  • 2010/11. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne. One-man show Ataa Oko et les Esprits.
  • 2006 and 2007/2008. Art Museum Berne and Hygienemuseum Dresden. Exposition Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead .
  • 2023. Andrea Bellini (ed.): Chrysalide. Le rêve du pappillon, Exhibition cat. Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva, Lenz 2023 (french).
  • 2022. Brigitte Kölle (ed.): Trauern. Klaus Wagenbach (german), p. 68-73.
  • 2022. Collection de l'Art Brut (ed.): Croyances. 5th Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne, french, p. 104-5, 156-57, 2022.
  • 2021. Regula Tschumi (ed.): Ataa Oko Addo. With text contributions by Sarah Lombardi, Lucienne Peiry, Regula Tschumi and Atta Kwami, Edition Clandestin, Biel, ISBN 978-3-907262-05-4.
  • 2017. Lucienne Peiry, The Flute of Ataa Oko, en: Outsider Art, Vol. 3, Shanghai University Press, p. 22-33, Anglais e Chinois. ISBN 978-7-5671-2640-4/J 399.
  • 2017. Regula Tschumi, Ataa Oko. A glimpse inside the amazing world of Ghanaian funerals and how the carpenter Ataa Oko became an artist, online magazine Interwoven: the fabric of things.
  • 2014. Regula Tschumi: Concealed Art. The figurative palanquins and coffins of Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Berne. ISBN 978-3-03828-099-6.
  • 2014. Regula Tschumi: The buried treasures of the Ga: Coffin art in Ghana. Edition Till Schaap, Bern. ISBN 9783038280163. A revised and updated second edition of "The buried treasures of the Ga", Bern: Benteli 2008.
  • 2013. Regula Tschumi "The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance", en: African Arts, Vol. 46, Nr. 4, 2013, pp. 60–73.
  • 2012/13. Hors-Champs. Ed. Musée d'Ethnographie Neuchâtel MEN. Neuchâtel: Atélier PréTexte, pp.  200–203, (français).
  • 2012. "Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne", Lucienne Peiry (ed.), Skira Flammarion 2012, pp. 26–27; 164. (français)
  • 2010. Ataa Oko. Exhibition catalogue. ed. Collection de l'art brut. Gollion: Infolio. (français).
  • 2006. Regula Tschumi, "Last Respects, First Honoured. Ghanaian Burial Rituals and Figural Coffins" in: Kunstmuseum Bern (ed.), Six Feet Under. Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead. Ex.-Cat. Bielefeld, Leipzig: Kerber, pp. 114–125.
  • 2010. Ataa Oko and the spirits. Philippe Lespinasse, Regula Tschumi, Andress Alvarez. Lausanne/Le Tourne, Parti de l’Art Brut/ LoKomotiv Films, 20 minutes, (subtitled).
  • 2009. Sépulture sur mesure, 52 minutes movie on the work of the Ga funerals, of the coffins of Ataa Oko Ado and Eric Adjetey Anang (Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop). Philippe Lespinasse, Grand Angle Production.
  1. Collection de l'Art Brut.
  2. Ataa Oko, exhibition catalogue, 2010, ed. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne.
  3. Recherche - Le Temps (fr).
  4. ARS 11, Nykytaiteen museo Kiasma Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art. Artists: Ataa Oko, 1919, Ghana, Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne. Franck Lundangi, 1958, Angola, Artist’s own collection, Briare. Ghana Posters, Hand painted movie posters, Pascal Saumade’s collection, Paris; Paul Amar, 1919, Algeria. From 15 April to 27 November 2011. Mannerheiminaukio 2, Helsinki. www.kiasma.fi. SATELLITE EXHIBITION "Stars of Africa": Hämeenlinna Art Museum. From 20 May to 11 September 2011. OMA – Oulu Museum of Art. From 24 September 2011 to 8 January 2012. Curators: Tuula Karjalainen, Ph.D., curator; Laurent Danchin, art critic, journalist, curator;