Zohra Opoku

Zohra Opoku (born 1976, in Altdöbern, former GDR / East Germany) is a Ghanaian-German artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores identity formation, memory, migration, cultural inheritance, and the social and political meanings of dress and textile culture. Working across textiles, photography, installation, performance, video, and printmaking, Opoku examines belonging, ancestry, and self-representation through screen-printed fabrics, garments, self-portraiture, and materially layered installations rooted in personal and collective histories.  Opoku trained in fashion and photography and holds an M.A. in Fashion from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Born and raised in East Germany and later relocating to Ghana to reconnect with her ancestral roots, she often uses fabric, clothing, and photographic imagery as carriers of memory and historical meaning. Her work engages archives, family history, healing, and Black diasporic visual culture, using dyed and screen-printed textiles, collage, and installation to consider how identity is shaped by personal experience as well as larger cultural, historical, and socioeconomic forces.  Her work has been exhibited at Zeitz MOCAA, Sharjah Biennial 15, DAK’ART 2022, the Athens Biennale, and in exhibitions with Mariane Ibrahim and other international venues. She has also presented major projects including We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, her first museum survey exhibition at Zeitz MOCAA. Zohra Opoku lives and works in Accra, Ghana.