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Inside - Outside
Duo Show with Ngoye and Karolin Schwab 18 Sep - 8 Nov 2024This fall, Galerie Melbye-Konan presents the Ivorian artist Ngoye and the German artist Karolin Schwab in a duo exhibition entitled 'Inside Outside'. The works, which include paintings, sculptures and works...Read more -
Mouvement - Bewegung
Collaboration with the French Consulate and the Institut français in Hamburg 20 Jun - 24 Aug 2024This 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...Read more -
Persona
Group exhibition curated with Harald Falckenberg 12 Mar - 25 May 2024From 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...Read more -
Masquage
Ngoye 6 Oct - 24 Nov 2023The Melbye-Konan Gallery presents the first solo exhibition of the artist Ngoye in Germany. Entitled 'Masquage', the exhibition runs from 06.10. to 24.11.23 and features the artist's new series of...Read more -
How do you feel?
Aron Demetz & Ngoye 9 Dec 2022 - 18 Feb 2023Under the title “How do you feel?” the Melbye-Konan Gallery will exhibit artworks by wood sculptor Aron Demetz in dialogue with painter Ngoye in a Duo-exhibition on 400 square meters...Read more -
MÉTAMORPHOSES
YANNICK ACKAH & NGOYE 23 Dec 2021 - 26 Feb 2022The 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.Read more -
IDENTITY
GROUP EXHIBITION 12 Dec 2020 - 12 Feb 2021The 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...Read more -
AKWABA
GROUP EXHIBITION 4 Sep - 3 Oct 2020Akwaba, 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.Read more
«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.