Woori 2025


Woori Festival 2025 returns to Wa as a celebration of weaving, collaboration, and community. Through exhibitions, workshops, performances, and skill exchanges, the festival explores the role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.

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Overview
“Woori 2025 Festival: 
The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.”


Woori Festival 2025 brings together artists, weavers, designers, performers, and cultural practitioners whose work is grounded in collective practice and shared knowledge. Held at the Nubuke Foundation Centre for Textiles and Clay in Loho near Wa, the fifth edition of the festival is guided by the theme “The role of collaboration in harnessing the potential of weaving for socio-economic development.” The participating artists approach weaving not only as a material practice, but as a social and economic framework shaped by cooperation, intergenerational exchange, and community resilience.

At the heart of the festival are master weavers and weaving associations from Nadowli, Nandom, and Wa, whose practices span traditional looms, contemporary adaptations, and sustainable approaches to textile production. Through live demonstrations, workshops, and skill-exchange sessions, these practitioners share techniques and knowledge that highlight weaving’s enduring relevance to livelihoods, cultural identity, and local economies in the Upper West Region.

Complementing this are artistic contributions across textile, fibre, installation, performance, film, sound, fashion, and poetry by artists including Jemima Fordjour, Blanche Boni-Mississo, Emmanuel Aggrey Tieku, Simon Bowman Jnr, King David Osabutey, Fran, Dzidefo Amegatsey, and Enoch Laryea Nii-Adjei. Working alongside local communities, children, youth, and members of the visually impaired and deaf communities, the artists of Woori 2025 explore collaboration as both method and message—positioning weaving as a living practice capable of shaping more inclusive and sustainable futures.


2025 Artists

Blanche Boni-Mississo
Karin Altmann
AFROSCOPE
Enoch Laryea
Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu
Salim Wumpini Fuseini
Dzidefo Amegatsey
Simon Bowman Jnr
Emmanuel Tieku
King David Osabutey
Jemima Fordjour
Fran

Blanche Boni-Mississo





Blanche Boni-Mississo (b. 1998, Accra, Ghana) is a visual artist whose practice explores participation, atmosphere, and relational encounters. Working across painting, drawing, collage, and installation, she creates immersive environments that invite viewers to move, gather, and respond. Her work often unfolds through performative gestures and spatial interventions, using colour, light, and figure to activate shared moments of presence.

Flowers frequently appear in her work as symbolic and playful forms—rendered through bold contours, animated colour, and spontaneous mark-making—while unconventional surfaces such as polythene rolls become sites for experimentation and interaction. Through these materials and methods, Boni-Mississo questions how audiences engage with art, each other, and the spaces they inhabit.

She lives and works between Accra and Kumasi, and is currently completing a BFA in Painting and Sculpture at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). Alongside her studio practice, she has facilitated art workshops for children, reflecting her ongoing interest in accessibility, collective experience, and learning through making.Painting
Installation

Karin Altmann





Karin Altmann is an Austrian artist, researcher and senior lecturer at the Department of Textile Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Beside her lectures – with a focus on dyeing with natural dyes, textile printing, and textile production fields – she has been developing and participating in a series of transcultural projects with international partners from Kyrgyzstan, Bhutan, Japan, Mexico, Mali and Ghana, and also in art projects with children, people with disabilities, refugees, and women in psychological or social need. As an artist and researcher, she explores the textile element as a specific mediality, with regard to its appearance and significance in art, culture and society, but also to its potential as a networking model, while theory and practice always relate to, extend and deepen each other.Textiles
Research

AFROSCOPE





AFROSCOPE (Isaac Nana Opoku) has been practicing as a creative professional for over a decade, working as a multidisciplinary artist and designer, and as a social entrepreneur. In his work he explores a range of themes including decolonization, oneness, information overload, and most recently the concept of deep adaptation. He engages with these topics in very experimental and speculative ways, and utilises both digital technologies and traditional analog mediums in his process. Community and collaboration are also core aspects of his practice: He is a part of various creative teams and cultural organisations, and also works closely with indigenous artisans across Ghana. He has also worked with brands like Apple and Adobe, and has co-founded impact organisations such as House of Stole, Cocoa360 and Small Hype. AFROSCOPE represented Ghana at the Venice Biennale (April 2022), has shown work at 1-54 London (October 2023), at Museum Ostwall in Dortmund (December 2021), at the 21st Century Museum Kanazawa (November 2023), and in several other exhibitions as well.Sculpture
Digital Art
Mixed Media

Enoch Laryea





Laryea Enoch Nii Adjei, also known as Sage (1992), is an artist based in Accra, Ghana. He earned a High National Diploma in Industrial Arts from the School of Engineering at the Tamale Technical University.

He is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes painting, ceramics, illustration, graffiti, and sculpture. Using these media, he engages audiences in an open dialogue on a variety of discursive cultural themes. Nii Adjei works with clay, cement, pencil and ink, pastel, charcoal, chalk, acrylic and oil Paint, can spray, and fiberglass.

His works have been exhibited in shows with the Nubuke Foundation, Ulti-Leaf Foundation, Ghana Commission for UNESCO, UN Information Center (UNIC) Accra, and the Ghana Association of Visual Artists.

Enoch has been practicing clay sculpting professionally since 2012, and he uses local Clay from Ghana. He draws inspiration from his imagination, culture, and nature. Sculpture
Painting

Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu





Nana Yaa Asare-Boadu is a British-born Ghanaian interdisciplinary performance artist, choreographer, and designer known for her evocative work exploring the Black female body, improvisation, and spatial dynamics, integrating movement, speech, video, and sculpture.Performance Art

Salim Wumpini Fuseini





Salim Wumpini Fuseini is a Ghanaian sculptor whose practice transforms discarded and unconventional materials into expressive, layered forms. Born in Yendi in Northern Ghana, his work is rooted in personal memory and cultural storytelling, exploring how material, form, and light can carry emotion and meaning beyond traditional sculptural conventions.

Trained in Fine Art at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Fuseini began experimenting with alternative materials during his studies, initially working with discarded car tyres before developing a distinctive sculptural language using wire mesh. Through this medium, he creates textured surfaces that shift with light and shadow, evoking movement, depth, and tonal nuance while challenging perceptions of weight, solidity, and permanence.

Alongside his professional work with the Ministry of Defence, Fuseini remains deeply committed to his studio practice. He approaches each sculpture as a living entity, guided by the belief that every work carries its own spirit. Through transformation and reuse, his work reflects on heritage, resilience, and the expansive possibilities of material in contemporary African sculpture.Sculpture

Dzidefo Amegatsey





Dzidefo Amegatsey’s practice considers the shifting life cycles of materials, using decay and decomposition as entry points to explore time, history, and consumption. His installations, paintings, sculptures, and drawings engage with the urban landscape, reflecting on the textures and transformations of everyday spaces. Through photo transfer, collage, and screen printing, he reconfigures familiar materials, examining their layered meanings.

Amegatsey is a Master of Fine Arts candidate at KNUST and a member of blaxTARLINES KUMASI. In 2023, he was among the first artists selected for the dot.ateliers residency by Amoako Boafo, and in 2024, he received the Baden Württemberg Scholarship to study at the State Academy of Fine Art in Karlsruhe, Germany.Painting
Collage

Simon Bowman Jnr





Simon Bowman 'Jnr.' is an artist redefining the boundaries of photography. Living and working in Accra, he pushes analogue photography beyond its documentary role, transforming it into a medium of abstraction through chemical manipulation, experimental processes, and altered techniques. His practice disrupts conventional image-making, probing the materiality of film and its capacity for distortion, unpredictability, and reinterpretation.

Bowman’s works have been featured in major exhibitions, including Orderly Disorderly (2017) and Cornfields in Accra (2016), both organised by blaxTARLINES KUMASI at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra. His approach to photography has earned him recognition as a finalist for the Kuenyehia Art Prize (2018) and the CFAO Young Talent Competition (2022).

At WOORI 2025, Bowman extends his exploration of photographic materiality, inviting viewers to reconsider the limits of the image, the medium, and the process of seeing.Photography
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