At the Interstice (2026)
At the Interstice transforms the Foundation for Contemporary Art—Ghana through a site-specific spatial intervention that connects the gallery interior with the courtyard and the historic W.E.B DuBois Centre for Pan African Culture. Accompanied by sculptural fragments, photographic research and speculative architectural drawings, the exhibition examines architecture as an unfinished, open and civic system. The installation transforms both the experience of the gallery and the public presence of the institution.
The installation builds on At the Interstice, first realised in 2025 as a temporary intervention at crazinisT artisT studiO (TTO) in Kumasi. Developed in response to a site shaped by continual adaptation, overlapping uses and conditions of social and political precarity, the project employed lightweight shade net, steel poles and tensioned cables to extend the institution into its surrounding landscape. In Kumasi, the intervention became an act of spatial negotiation, making collective presence visible while remaining provisional, adaptable and reversible. At FCA-Ghana, these spatial strategies are translated into a new site-specific installation, adapted to a different context while retaining their emphasis on openness, reversibility and transformation.
The accompanying works reveal the observations and experiments from which the installation emerged. Sculptural assemblages made from found materials, photographic studies and architectural drawings trace recurring spatial tactics observed across compounds, workshops, markets and everyday constructions in Ghana. Emerging from conditions of limited resources, continual adaptation and collective negotiation, these environments are understood as sources of architectural knowledge, where lightweight materials, incremental adaptation and collective appropriation continually reshape the built environment and create civic space.
At the Interstice questions architecture as a fixed form and proposes it instead as an open process: provisional, reversible and continually negotiated through use. The exhibition suggests that the spaces between inside and outside, permanence and ephemerality, architecture and everyday life are not residual conditions, but productive territories where new forms of architecture—and new forms of civic life—can emerge.
At the Interstice
6-31 August 2026
Foundation for Contemporary Art—Ghana
The exhibition is supported by FCA-Ghana and the Austrian Cultural Forum Accra. Research was supported by the Hans Hollein Project Grant, awarded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport.
Team TAELON7: Juergen Benson-Strohmayer (lead), Briena Montana (textiles), Wonder Fiatsi (assistant), Akash Deep (visuals), Joseph Woode (welding lead), Emmanuel Oppong (welding), Andy Owusu (welding)
Team FCA-Ghana: Adwoa Amoah (co-director), Ato Annan (co-director), Abbey IT-A (curator), Livingstone Y. Agbeshie (lead carpenter), Eric Allotey (carpentry), Lawrence D. Agbeshie-Yevugah (carpentry), Smart Koffi Assagba (carpentry), Setor Mensah (gallery assistant), Godfred Goodman (documentation), Abass Ismail (documentation)
Photography: Juergen Benson-Strohmayer, Isaac Gyamfi