Gameli Hamelo

Ghana

Journalist and Writer at Freelance

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In Madagascar, Fondation H Anchors a Rising Contemporary Scene

1 week ago | observer.com | Gameli Hamelo

An installation view of Yinka Shonibare’s “Safiotra.” Photo: Fabio Thierry Andriamiarintsoa © Fondation HThis past April, scores of art world insiders from institutions, organizations and galleries—MoMA, Serpentine Gallery, V&A East and Goodman Gallery, to name a few—trekked to Madagascar for an exhibition billed as Yinka Shonibare CBE RA’s first major show in Africa.
Journalist-turned-artist Massoud Hayoun considers systems of control in ‘Stateless’

1 week ago | wallpaper.com | Gameli Hamelo

‘I hope that people who are a lot smarter and more powerful than me see these paintings and think there are people who are actively thinking about how the world could be a little more loving and a little more humane than it is right now,’ says the painter Massoud Hayoun.
Ten top shows to see in New York during Frieze week

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Benjamin Sutton |Elena Goukassian |Torey Akers |Gameli Hamelo

The first full-scale retrospective on the late great painter and sculptor Jack Whitten (1939-2018)brings together more than 175 works spanning his six-decade career. His large-scale mosaic-like compositions—made from hardened acrylic paint cut into thousands of tiles—figure prominently, as do his mixed-media assemblage sculptures.
Inside Yinka Shonibare's first major show in Africa

1 month ago | wallpaper.com | Gameli Hamelo

‘Safiotra [Hybridités/Hybridities]’, British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare’s exhibition at contemporary art foundation Fondation H in Madagascar, brings together 15 years of his work, including stitched works, quilts, and sculptures, ‘so people can have a full understanding of the scope of my career’, he tells Wallpaper*.
Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo show in Africa to open in Madagascar

1 month ago | theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo |Georgina Adam |Anny Shaw

The British Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare was given carte blanche for his first major solo exhibition on the African continent. Safiotra [Hybridities] at the Fondation H in Antananarivo, Madagascar, will include several of Shonibare’s sculptures, such as Alien Woman on Flying Machine (2011) and Refugee Astronaut X (2024), as well as some of his lesser-known quilt works.
How a new online database is bringing an African focus to restitution cases

2 months ago | theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo

When the French president Emmanuel Macron called for the restitution of African artefacts by the West in 2017, his statement was viewed in the international media as groundbreaking. Those reports failed to acknowledge the decades of calls for restitution from Africans themselves and the work being done across the continent to capture and analyse information about heritage looted in the era of European colonialism.
Through Art, Gustavo Nazareno Brings His Afro-Brazilian Faith to the Global Stage

2 months ago | observer.com | Gameli Hamelo

Gustavo Nazareno’s richly symbolic paintings investigate the African hand in Brazilian Baroque art. GABRIEL_VOLPIIn 2018, Brazilian artist Gustavo Nazareno left Minas Gerais for São Paulo because his aunt, a practitioner of the Afro-Brazilian religion Umbanda, “got an intuition [that] something was going to happen.” (Umbanda is based on the idea of possession by the spirits.
‘It’s important because it’s a part of me’: why a growing number of African diasporic artists are showing work on the continent

Mar 4, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Gameli Hamelo |Chinma Johnson-Nwosu |Ayodeji Rotinwa |Anna Brady

The London-born and based artist Emma Prempeh hit a major career milestone in 2021, debuting in Africa with a solo show at ADA Contemporary Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana, her father’s homeland. The show was preceded by a month-long residency in the West African country. It was a decision “to connect with my heritage”, she tells The Art Newspaper.
Black Identity Across Continents: An Interview With Artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Deborah-Joyce Holman

Feb 28, 2025 | observer.com | Gameli Hamelo

Nolan Oswald Dennis’ “overturns” at the Swiss Institute explores decolonization, Black liberation and Indigenous resistance. Photo by Daniel Perez. Courtesy the Swiss Institute“It feels like it came out of a shared community,” the Johannesburg-based South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis tells Observer about making his U.S. institutional debut alongside London-based Swiss artist Deborah-Joyce Holman in separate exhibitions exploring Black identity.
Meet the duo using hair and photography as a medium to consider Africa and the African diaspora

Feb 19, 2025 | wallpaper.com | Gameli Hamelo

‘I am really proud of this project and how it is evolving and growing just like my kids,’ says creative director and concept hair artist Asia Clarke about ‘Strands & Structures’, a photo documentary exhibition that explores social and environmental issues in Accra, Ghana using hair and photography.

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Articles

In Madagascar, Fondation H Anchors a Rising Contemporary Scene

Journalist-turned-artist Massoud Hayoun considers systems of control in ‘Stateless’

Ten top shows to see in New York during Frieze week

Inside Yinka Shonibare's first major show in Africa

Yinka Shonibare’s first major solo show in Africa to open in Madagascar

How a new online database is bringing an African focus to restitution cases

Through Art, Gustavo Nazareno Brings His Afro-Brazilian Faith to the Global Stage

‘It’s important because it’s a part of me’: why a growing number of African diasporic artists are showing work on the continent

Black Identity Across Continents: An Interview With Artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Deborah-Joyce Holman

Meet the duo using hair and photography as a medium to consider Africa and the African diaspora

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