The Collection

Zohra Opoku is a German-born Ghanaian multidisciplinary artist working across photography, textiles, installation, and performance. Grounded in her personal history and cultural heritage, Opoku’s practice investigates identity, memory, and belonging, bridging her upbringing in East Germany with her later reconnection to her Ghanaian roots.

Opoku often begins with photography, screen-printing images onto pre-dyed natural fabrics before layering embroidery, collage, and hand-stitching to create richly textured works. Integrating family heirlooms, personal symbols, and references to Ghanaian material culture, her works become intimate archives of diasporic identity that are simultaneously personal and universal. “The transition from being based in Germany to being in Ghana and bringing those two worlds together in a conversation—whether through material, handcraft, or memory—is important,” she has said. “It allows others to relate to the work, especially within the diaspora, where people have similar experiences.”

Her work has been featured in major biennials including the 15th Sharjah Biennale (2023), the 14th Dak’Art Biennale in Senegal (2022), and the 7th Athens Biennale (2021). Institutional presentations include the Louvre Abu Dhabi (2024–25); Minneapolis Institute of Art (2025); Brooklyn Museum (2024); High Museum of Art, Atlanta (2024); Palais Populaire, Berlin (2024); Tate Modern, London (2022); Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2022); Southbank Centre / Hayward Gallery, London (2020); Cleveland Museum of Art (2018); and Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (2015).

Opoku’s works are held in major international collections such as the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Tate Modern, London; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, New York; Faurschou Foundation, Copenhagen; The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto; and The Dean Collection, New York. In September 2025, her major solo exhibition We proceed in the footsteps of the sunlight will open at Zeitz MOCAA in Cape Town.