Ataa Oko

**Ataa Oko Addo** nyɛla ninvuɣuso bɛ dɔɣi yuuni  1919  ka o kani silimiingoli December dabaawai dali yuuni 2012 ni o nyɛla Ghana bilichini sɔ ŋun tumdi nucheeni tuma din jendi binyɛra kpɛbu kpɛbu mini kum daadaka nim malibu,  o yuun pihinii saha, o daa nyɛla ŋun leegi Art Brut.

## Mamaŋa lahabali

Ataa Oko Addo, bɛ ni mi so ni Ataa Oko la, nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so yuuni 1919 Ghana tingbani yaɣishɛli beni ka di yuli booni ni La . O na ʒin chaŋ shikuru, amaa ka daa pun nyɛ ŋun tuundi tuma sahashɛli o ni daa na nyɛ yuun pinaa ata n tumdi kuli pali tali tuma Saha shɛli ha, o daa nyɛla bɛ ni zaŋ shɛli.

## Single and group exhibitions
* 2025. Musée de la Réforme, Geneva: *Voir l'invisible*.
* 2024/25. Museo delle Culture, Milan: *Dubuffet e l'art brut - L'arte degli outsider*.
* 2023. Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva: *Crysalide. Le rêve du Papillon*.
* 2022. Museum der Völker, Schwaz: *Die Geister spielen Fussball. Zeichnungen und Skulpturen des ghanaischen Künstlers Ataa Oko Addo (1919-2012)*.
* 2022. Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne: *Croyances*, 5th Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne.
* 2020. Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg: *Mourning. On Loss and Change*.
* 2017/18. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne: *Corps*, 3rd Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne.
* 2017. ANO Gallery of Nana Oforiatta Ayim in Accra: "Accra: Portraits of A City".
* 2014. MUT Museum of the University Tübingen: "Diesseits-Jenseits-Abseits".
* 2012. MEN Musée ethnographique Neuchâtel *Hors-Champs*.
* 2011/12. ''Miracles of Africa'', Hämeenlinna Art Museum, Hämeenlinna and Oulu Museum of Art, Oma, Finland
* 2011. Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich. ''Ghanaian 'fantasy coffin''', 27 September 2011 - 4 December 2011. Griff Rhys Jones.
* 2010/11. Collection de l'art brut, Lausanne. One-man show *Ataa Oko et les Esprits*.
* 2006 and 2007/2008. Art Museum Berne and Hygienemuseum Dresden. Exposition *Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead *.

## Tuma anfooninima

File:Drawing by Ataa Oko, 2009.jpg|Figurative palanquin, drawing of Ataa Oko 2009
File:Drawing by Ataa Oko, 2010.jpg|Spirits, drawing of Ataa Oko 2010
File:Drawing by Ataa Oko, 2010 Football World Cup.jpg|World cup, drawing of Ataa Oko 2010


## Pɔhinzuɣu
* 2023. Andrea Bellini (ed.): *Chrysalide. Le rêve du pappillon*, Exhibition cat. Centre d'Art Contemporain Geneva, Lenz 2023 (french).
* 2022. Brigitte Kölle (ed.): *Trauern.* Klaus Wagenbach (german), p. 68-73.
* 2022. Collection de l'Art Brut (ed.): *Croyances*. 5th Art Brut Biennale in the CAB Lausanne, french, p. 104-5, 156-57, 2022.
* 2021. Regula Tschumi (ed.): *Ataa Oko Addo*. With text contributions by Sarah Lombardi, Lucienne Peiry, Regula Tschumi and Atta Kwami, Edition Clandestin, Biel, .  
* 2017. Lucienne Peiry, *The Flute of Ataa Oko,* en: Outsider Art, Vol. 3, Shanghai University Press, p.&nbsp;22-33, Anglais e Chinois. /J 399.
* 2017. Regula Tschumi, *Ataa Oko. A glimpse inside the amazing world of Ghanaian funerals and how the carpenter Ataa Oko became an artist,* online magazine Interwoven: the fabric of things.
* 2014. Regula Tschumi: *Concealed Art. The figurative palanquins and coffins of Ghana.* Edition Till Schaap, Berne. .
* 2014. Regula Tschumi: *The buried treasures of the Ga: Coffin art in Ghana.* Edition Till Schaap, Bern. . A revised and updated second edition of "The buried treasures of the Ga", Bern: Benteli 2008.
* 2013. Regula Tschumi "The Figurative Palanquins of the Ga. History and Significance", en: *[[African Arts (journal)|African Arts]]*, Vol. 46, Nr. 4, 2013, pp.&nbsp;60–73.
* 2012/13. *Hors-Champs.* Ed. Musée d'Ethnographie Neuchâtel MEN. Neuchâtel: Atélier PréTexte, pp.&nbsp; 200–203, (français).
* 2012. "Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne", Lucienne Peiry (ed.), Skira Flammarion 2012, pp.&nbsp;26–27; 164. (français)
* 2010. *Ataa Oko*. Exhibition catalogue. ed. Collection de l'art brut. Gollion: Infolio. (français).
* 2006. Regula Tschumi, "Last Respects, First Honoured. Ghanaian Burial Rituals and Figural Coffins" in: Kunstmuseum Bern (ed.), *Six Feet Under. Autopsy of Our Relation to the Dead*. Ex.-Cat. Bielefeld, Leipzig: Kerber, pp.&nbsp;114–125.

## Siniinima
* 2010. Ataa Oko and the spirits. Philippe Lespinasse, Regula Tschumi, Andress Alvarez. Lausanne/Le Tourne, Parti de l’Art Brut/ LoKomotiv Films, 20 minutes, (subtitled).
* 2009. *Sépulture sur mesure*, 52 minutes movie on the work of the Ga funerals, of the coffins of Ataa Oko Ado and Eric Adjetey Anang (Kane Kwei Carpentry Workshop). Philippe Lespinasse, Grand Angle Production.

## Lihi m pahi
*Art Brut
*African Art
*Contemporary African Art
*Ataa Oko. A glimpse inside the amazing world of Ghanaian funerals and how the carpenter Ataa Oko became an artist

## Kundivihira

## External links
* www.regulatschumi.ch
* Ataa Oko at the Collection de l'Art Brut