Yannick Ackah

This summer France and Germany will be celebrating a summer of culture and sport. As France will be the host country of the Olympic Games, while Germany will host the...

From 12 March to 25 May 2024, the 400 m2 Melbye-Konan Gallery will host the group exhibition 'Persona' – Latin for mask. It brings together several contemporary artists who use...

Galerie Melbye-Konan presents the second solo exhibition of the internationally sought-after contemporary artist Yannick Ackah (born in 1992 in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire) on 400m2. On view from 2 December 2023...

The Landesverband Hamburger Galerien e.V. continues its exhibition series AUFBRECHEN (2019) and AUFMERKEN (2021) and presents a comprehensive insight into Hamburg's gallery scene with its third exhibition AUFATMEN. After years...

Yannick Ackah is an Ivorian Artists, Born 1992 in Yamoussoukro, Côte d'Ivoire, living and working in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire Under the title 'La Poesie D 'Existence', Gallery Melbye-Konan exhibits the...

The duo exhibition "Metamorphoses" presents new works by artists Yannick Ackah and Ngoye on 230m2 in Jungfernstieg in the Melbye-Konan gallery from 23 December 2021 to 26 February 2022.

On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the French Institute in Hamburg, Melbye-Konan Gallery is presenting three paintings by young artists from Hamburg and the Ivory Coast as part of its current exhibition HERITAGE. The Hamburg gallery represents African artists as well as artists from all over the world with a connection to Africa. The exhibition, which can be seen at the gallery on Jungfernstieg until July 14th 2021, shows paintings by the first generation of Ivorian artists as well as current works by the younger generation that deal with the theme of cultural heritage.

The exhibition IDENTITY is about identity as a life-long process, shaped by norms, culture, origin, role patterns, and experiences. In this exhibition, the four artists work on identity and cultural...

Akwaba, the title of the opening exhibition, shows African painters of their generation or artists with a connection to Africa from September 4th, 2020 to October 3rd, 2020.

«Akwaba» means «welcome» in the African Twi language spoken by the Akan people in Ghana and the Ivory Coast. The term "Akwaba" also has a creative meaning. In the ancient Akan mythology, the fertility figure Akwaba is revered as the creator mother of the earth. The works reflect about Africa as the origin of the world, but also question the creative power of humans and the gap between modernity and tradition that meet in the big cities of Africa.