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Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is a German-Ghanaian artist based in Zurich, Switzerland.
Pronunciation: a-KOSS-ya
Published in Artforum, Camera Austria, Monopol Magazin, foam magazine, National Geographic, and The Art Newspaper, among others.
Pronunciation: a-KOSS-ya
Published in Artforum, Camera Austria, Monopol Magazin, foam magazine, National Geographic, and The Art Newspaper, among others.
SELECTED AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS
2025 City of Zurich Art Grant
2025 Nomination Prix Mobilière
2024 Swiss Art Award
2023 Canton of Zurich Art Grant
2023 Yaa Asantewaa Prize
2023 City of Zurich Art Grant
2022 Canton of Zurich Art Grant
2022 Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability
2021 Prix d’Art Robert Schuman
2020 Prix Photoforum
2015 OPUS Photography Prize
2015 Nomination Marta-Hoepffner-Preis für Fotografie
2015 Nomination 22. Bundeswettbewerb
2014 Deutschlandstipendium
2013 Peter und Luise Hager-Preis
2012 Peter und Luise Hager-Preis
PRODUCTION AND PUBLICATION GRANTS
2025 Publication Grant Pro Helvetia
2025 Publication Grant Kanton Zürich
2025 Publication Grant Stadt Zürich
2025 Publication Grant Burgauer Stiftung
2023 Production Grant Pro Helvetia Focus Photo
2023 Publication Grant Pro Helvetia
2023 Publication Grant Stadt Zürich
2021 Publication Grant Volkart Stiftung
2021 Publication Grant Kanton Zürich
2021 Filmmakers’ Grant Story Lab Migros Kulturprozent
COLLECTIONS
Kunsthaus Zürich, Stedelijk Museum, MMK Frankfurt, Nicoletta Fiorucci Collection, La Mobiliar, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Art Collection Canton of Zurich, Art Collection City of Zürich , Art Vontobel, RawDAO, Fotomuseum Winterthur (Patron Edition), Municipal Collection City of Saarbrücken, Saarlandmuseum
ARTIST BOOKS
2026 no flowers
152 pages, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, ISBN 978-3-033-11621-4
2024 ROUGH TIDE
112 pages, edition fink, ISBN 978-3-03746-270-6
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2023 MAP Artist Residency, Heritage Space Hanoi, VNM
2022 Artist Residency Photoforum Pasquart, Biel CH
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2027 RESIDUAL SKY, Autograph, London UK
2026 Residual Sky Under Contamination, Deichtorhallen Haus der Photographie, Hamburg DE
2026 Lost Sister, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken DE
2026 RESIDUAL SKY, Kunsthaus Glarus CH
2024 The House Is A Body, Georgian House Museum for Bristol Photo Festival, Bristol UK
2024 Corner Dry Lungs, Zollamt MMK, Frankfurt am Main, DE
2022 Behold The Ocean, Centre Photographie Genéve CH
2022 May I Dream?, Photoforum Pasquart CH
2020 Hyper Solitude, Space Place Gallery of Modern Art, Nizhny Tagil RU
2015 révélée, k4 galerie, Saarbruecken DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND ART FAIRS
2026 The Zurich Archipelago, Art in Public Space curated by Mirjam Varadinis, Zürich CH
2025 Werkschau Kanton Zürich, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur CH
2025 Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich, Helmhaus, Zürich CH
2025 Art Basel CH
2025 Art Basel Hong Kong
2025 Prix Mobilière 2025, art genève, Geneva CH2025 Love, Maybe, curated by Jana Johanna Haeckel, Alexander Tutsek Foundation, Munich DE
2024 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Art Basel, Basel CH
2024 Missing Mirror, Foam Museum, Amsterdam NL
2024 Making Light of Every Thing, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva CH
2024 Swiss Art Awards, Messe Art Basel, Basel CH
2024 Missing Mirror, Foam Museum, Amsterdam NL
2024 Making Light of Every Thing, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Geneva CH
2023 Alternative Mobility, Gia Lam Train Factory, Hanoi VN
2023 Art Vontobel – New Acquisitions, Vontobel, Zürich CH
2023 Werkschau Kanton Zürich, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich CH
2023 Kunststipendien der Stadt Zürich 2023, Helmhaus, Zürich CH
2023 FOTODOKS, Lothringer 13 Halle, München DE
2023 Beyond Photography, Vontobel, Zurich CH
2023 IDENTITIES – Portraying the Intangible, Kunsthalle Trier, Trier DE
2022 work in progress 2.0, OnCurating, Zurich CH
2022 Louis Roederer Photography Prize for Sustainability, The White Box at Nobu Hotel, London UK
2021 Prix d’Art Robert Schuman, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken DE
2021 Prix Photoforum, Photoforum Pasquart, Biel CH
2019 FRISCH, with Eliane Zinner, visarte kabinett, Zürich CH
2015 Tausendmal. Der Versuch, with Malika Hagemann, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbruecken DE
2015 22. Bundeswettbewerb, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn DE
2014 Love in a Cold World, Cusanushaus, Saarbruecken DE
2014 Aus der Reihe – 5. Marta-Hoepffner-Preis, Stadtmuseum Hofheim am Taunus, Hofheim DE
2014 early birds, with Valerian Polienko, enovos, Saarbruecken DE
2012 Unseen, KuBa Galerie, Saarbruecken DE