Akosua Viktoria Adu-Sanyah is an internationally exhibited and published German-Ghanaian visual artist and documentary photographer based in Zürich, Switzerland. Her work is frequently awarded for exploring new territories through image-making, research, and human connection. She believes in the diversity of thought and expression, which results in various practices that inform each other: she equally engages in documentary work and conceptual arts.
Published in Bloomberg, npr, DerBund, and others.
Requests:
ava@akosuaviktoria.com
+41 79 931 76 99
Languages: German, English, French, Spanish
Special access and skills:
Endurance race horses (training and competition). Internationally qualified CEI* rider with experience in diverse equestrian communities globally. Videography & drone work.
Member of Cyberbaat DAO, BlackWomenPhotographers, near. swiss association for contemporary photography, vfg, Swiss Artistic Research Network, visarte.
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AWARDS & GRANTS
2022 Artist Residency Photoforum Pasquart
2021 Prix d’Art Robert Schuman
2021 Nomination Louis Roederer Art Prize
2021 Book Publishing Grant Volkart Stiftung
2021 Nomination Photographic Encounters
2021 Recognition Fire Cracker Grant / highly commended
2021 Book Project Grant Canton Zurich
2021 Story Lab – Filmmaking Grant – Migros Kulturprozent
2020 Prix Photoforum 2020
2015 OPUS-Fotografiepreis
2015 Marta-Hoepffner-Preis für Fotografie – shortlist
2015 22. Bundeswettbewerb – shortlist
2014 Deutschlandstipendium
2013 Peter und Luise Hager-Preis / Award for Interdisciplinary Aesthetics
2012 Peter und Luise Hager-Preis / Award for Interdisciplinary Aesthetics
SOLO SHOWS
2022 May I Dream?
Photoforum Pasquart CH upcoming
2022 Behold The Ocean
Centre Photographie Genéve CH upcoming
2020 Hyper Solitude
Space Place Gallery of Modern Art, Nizhny Tagil RU
2019 FRISCH
with Eliane Zinner, visarte kabinett, Zuerich CH
2015 révélée
k4 galerie, Saarbruecken DE
2015 Tausendmal. Der Versuch.
with Malika Hagemann, Saarlandmuseum, Saarbruecken DE
2014 early birds
with Valerian Polienko, enovos, Saarbruecken DE
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022 Art Dubai
Dubai UAE upcoming
2021 Art Basel Miami Art Week Pop-Up
KatapultX Wynwood Studios, Miami USA
2021 Prix d’Art Robert Schuman
Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken DE
2021 Digital Art Fair Asia
Hong Kong
2021 Still We Rise
PHmuseum, London UK
2021 Cyberbaat Genesis
1mA gallery and Foundation, Dakar SEN
2021 STILL
Road Gallery, Miami & L.A. USA
2021 Prix Photoforum
Photoforum Pasquart, Biel CH
2019 Fotonacht
Schwarzenburgstrasse 35, Bern CH
2016 Exposition photographique transfrontalière
Espace d‘Art Adagio, Thionville FR
2015 OPUS Fotografiepreis
Abbaye de Neimenster, Luxembourg LUX
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
2013 Peter und Luise Hager-Preis fuer interdisziplinäre Ästhetik
HBK Galerie, Saarbruecken DE
2012 Unseen
KuBa Galerie, Saarbruecken DE