12.10.2025, 12-2:30 pm: »IF IT DON'T EXIST BUILD IT« Workshop #1 with Larry Achiampong 

A sharing session and a space to talk and share stories with the artist, filmmaker, musician, and lecturer Larry Achiampong. Join us to share you stories! Bring an item from your personal archive (this could be an object, a photo, a video game, etc.) and use it as a prompt to join the conversation with the other participants. The idea behind this sharing session is to explore the concept of 'archive' as a personal space. This also links to the artist's childhood and his upbringing in a low socioeconomic background. Being able to 'collect' anything was expensive. Now, as an adult, Larry Achiampong has built an archive of video games and consoles, and developed a personal library. All with the intention of being able to share: share through connections and experiences.
 
ACCOMPANYING BIPoC WORKSHOP SERIES of »Unity in Diversity: Pan-African Art Practices of Collective Care« with Larry Achiampong, Sammy Baloji, Hamedine Kane & The Otolith

Participation free of charge (incl. drinks & snacks)
Please reserve: reservation@m-bassy.org

LARRY ACHIAMPONG (b. 1984 in London, UK; lives In London)

The artistic projects of British-Ghanaian artist, filmmaker, musician, and lecturer Larry Achiampong explore concepts of class, gender, and identity in transcultural and digital contexts through film, photography, acoustic and visual archiving, performance, object art, sound, and game design. In his artistic work, popular culture intersects with traces of colonial history—Achiampong combs through history and the present for persistent inequalities in society. The artist has realized numerous international projects, including commissions for Art on the Underground, London (2022) and The Liverpool Biennial, UK (2021). He has taught at the Slade School of Fine Art, London (2020) and the University of Central Lancashire, UK (2016) (i.a.). His solo exhibitions include Turner Contemporary, London (2022); Phi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada (2021), and 019, Ghent, Belgium (2019) (i.a.). In 2021, he was nominated for the Jarman Award, and in 2023, he was on the list for the British Academy Film Awards.

We would like to thank the Claussen-Simon Foundation, the ifa - Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, the Liebelt Foundation, the BKM - Hamburg Ministry of Culture and Media, and the ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS for their funding and support of the project. Furthermore, we would also like to thank gallery Selebe Yoon, Dakar, the studio of Larry Achiampong, London, LUX, London, Twenty Nine Studio & Production, Brussels and The Otolith Collective for their cooperation and support in realizing this project.