Philip Kojo Metz

Philip Kojo Metz (* 1971 in Heidelberg ) is a German-Ghanaian conceptual artist and photographer .

Life and career

Philip Kojo Metz's father is Ghanaian, his mother German. He grew up in Sasbachwalden in the Black Forest. After assisting photographers and sculptors, he graduated from the Munich Academy for Photo Design from 1994 to 1997 , followed by a stay in Ghana . First awards accompanied his path (1996 second place at the Danner Prize and 2000 winner, 1998 Reinhart Wolf Prize , 1999 Achenbach Art Promotion Prize) until he was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation in 2000 . In 2003 he was a visiting student at the German video artist Marcel Odenbach , Academy of Media Arts Cologne , 2004Master class with the German sculptor and object artist Olaf Metzel . After receiving his diploma in 2005, he was able to deepen his analysis of Afro-American culture in Brazil with a DAAD scholarship in 2006 .

Exhibitions and productions

Chronologically from current to older:

2016

• German colonialism, fragments of its past and present , German Historical Museum Berlin
• The Mimicry Games , KWADRAT , Berlin
• 1884 to 1915 - An Artistic Position , National Art Gallery of Namibia, Windhoek, February 5 - March 12

2015

• When we were Kings , KWADRAT, Berlin
• Fresh Fish for Fritz , Friedrichsbau, Bühl
• The Nomadic Sculpture , Creative Quarter Munich

2014

• Side Season , Karlsruhe
• Eagle Africa , Goethe-Institut Accra
• Mimicry and Mockery , Mousonturm Frankfurt
• The Nomadic Sculpture , Munich

2013

• White Boys , Haverford College , Philadelphia
• The Adler Africa share , KWADRAT, Berlin
• PIECES , KWADRAT, Berlin
• Art and Money , White Concepts, Berlin

2012

• pret á partager , Addis Ababa , Ethiopia
• Learn and Teach , Cape Town, SA
• 2 The Power of 2 , Berlin

2011

• Making Mirrors , New Society for Fine Arts , Berlin
• DFP , Morgenstrasse art space, Karlsruhe
• Luxury loft , Berlin
• MONO , Cité, Paris

2010

• Diving for Pearls , Lothringer13, Kunsthalle Munich
• pret á partager , Lagos, Nigeria
• AfroSat1 , Bayreuth
• Eurolatin Performance Festival , Berlin
• for sale , Petra Vankova Gallery

2009

• pret á parta ger, Dakar, Senegal
• mü , forschungsgruppe-f, Kunstraum Munich
• preview of the Review , ERBA, Valence
• Footnotes on the State of the Union , Art Bunker Nuremberg
• ON OFF , private gallery Munich

2008

• BECA gallery , New Orleans, USA
• The first years ... , BBK Munich
• PLAY IT! , Killesberg exhibition hall , Stuttgart
• POP UP , Stuttgart
• Diving for Pearls , London

2007

• little germany / little hungary , Kunstverein Stuttgart / ReaktorBudapest
• ART LABORATORY , E-WERK Freiburg
• urban photography , KUNSTBEZIRK, Stuttgart
• BEAUTIFUL VIEW - NOBODY'S LAND , Villa of the Art Foundation BW

2006

• chute de ouro , Museo Historico, Rio, Brazil
• HOLYWOOD , Kurhaus Sasbachwalden
• Bolzplatz Brasil , ALMMUNICH
• SEAL! , Westend Exhibition Park
• ADDED VALUE , Munich
• re / migra / cio , Budapest A38, Studio Galeria
• Colonialism without Colonies? , Shedhalle Zurich

2005

• Transmediale , Forschungsgruppe-f, Koblenz
• the m-principle , DU-AG Munich
• because of video , 84 GHz, Munich

Awards

Chronologically up-to-date before older:

• 2012 Greatmore Studios , Cape Town , SA
• 2010 Cité Internationale des Arts , Paris
• 2008 Valence scholarship, Stuttgart Ministry of Culture
• 2007 Art Fund Bonn working grant
• 2006 Baden-Württemberg Art Foundation
• 2005 DAAD scholarship for Brazil
• 2004 Socrates-Erasmus-Program AKI Academie voor Kunst en Industrie, Enschede / Netherlands
• 2000 admission to the German National Academic Foundation
• 2000 Danner Prize
• 1999 Achenbach Art Prize
• 1998 Reinhardt Wolff Prize
• 1996 Danner Prize 2nd place

Publications and reception

With “I am not a painter” Philip Kojo Metz classifies himself on his homepage as a conceptually working artist who, depending on the desired statement, chooses between the media of photography, sculpture, video works and performances. For a more specific statement, especially on his processing of the postcolonial relations between Germany and Ghana in particular, see the articles on the individual works Eagle of Africa and The Mimicry Games. The interview with Fabian Lehmann is an example of how he is seen by others with his work:

• Conversation between Fabian Lehmann and Philip Kojo Metz about his work iwishiwas as part of the AfroSat-1 exhibition in: Attendance note , student journal for humanities and cultural studies, University of Lüneburg, winter semester 2011

Web links

• Vita with the list of awards and a selection of exhibitions
• The photographic portrait "Black World" created by Philip Kojo Metz of Jini Jini, the village in Ghana where his father grew up, marketed by the art agency Kunst und Helden, Berlin
• brief description of Greatmore Studios

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vita on the artist's homepage , accessed on September 19, 2016.
2. ↑ Link to the current exhibition German Colonialism, Fragments of its Past and Present in the German Historical Museum, October 14, 2016 to May 14, 2017
3. ↑ Link to the video installation The Mimicry Games parallel to the European Championship, June 25th - July 1st
4. ↑ Link to the collective exhibition on Contemporary And (C &), platform for international art from an African perspective
5. ↑ Announcement Fresh Fish for Fritz in: INKA, city magazine for art & culture in Karlsruhe, Baden, Palatinate and Northern Alsace, article from July 17, 2015
6. ↑ Link to the Artist Talk on Adler Afrika , as part of the crowdfunding started in addition to the financing by the Goethe Institute