Elolo Bosoka transforms everyday materials into poetic reflections on movement, exchange, and belonging, linking form to the journeys that shape his work.
6 July 2026
Ghanaian artist Elolo Bosoka brings a compelling body of recent work to Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe with ‘Sabala Kotoku and other structures’, a solo exhibition that traces the journeys of objects, people, and materials across continents. Bringing together painting, sculpture, photography, and installation created over the past four years in Europe, the exhibition reveals Bosoka’s distinctive ability to elevate humble, everyday materials into richly layered contemporary artworks.
At the heart of the exhibition is the sabala kotoku, or onion sack, a familiar container found in markets across Ghana. In Bosoka’s hands, these woven sacks become sculptural surfaces that speak to migration, commerce, labour, and memory. Alongside fishing nets, textiles, plastics, and found objects, they form delicate, luminous structures that hover between architecture and skin, carrying the traces of countless previous lives and the journeys that led to them.
A member of the influential blaxTARLINES KUMASI collective and currently based between Kumasi and Accra, Bosoka approaches material as a living archive rather than a fixed commodity. His practice invites viewers to consider how objects accumulate histories through use, circulation, and exchange, reflecting broader questions of identity, place, and transformation. Through an intuitive dialogue between abstraction and materiality, ‘Sabala Kotoku and other structures’ offers a thoughtful meditation on the unseen networks that bind communities, landscapes, and histories together.
This exhibition is on view at the Kunstverein Wilhelmshöhe in Ettlingen, Germany, until 9 August 2026.
