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Kudjoe Affutu

  • Skill Category: Sculptors
  • Present Address: Awutu, Ghana
  • Country: Ghana
  • Email: kadart.kadart@hotmail.com
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Biography

Kudjoe Affutu (born 1985) is a Ghanaian artist and figurative coffin and palanquin builder. He was born and still lives in Awutu Bawyiase, Central Region, Ghana. Affutu has made a name for himself in Europe by participating in various art projects and exhibitions. From 2002 to 2006, he trained with the internationally renowned coffin artist Paa Joe in the Greater Accra Region. Since 2007 he has been running his own workshop in the town of his birth, producing figurative coffins and sculptures for Ghanaian funerals, art museums and private collectors. He collaborated among others with Ataa Oko, with the artist couple M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L., with Saâdane Afif and Thomas Demand.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

Commissioned works: 2011. Africa Pulp figures for M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L; 2010. Sculptures for the museum shop of the Tinguely Museum Basel; 2010. Hummer coffin for the Tinguely Museum Basel; 2010. Pompidou coffin for Saâdane Afif; 2010. Fridge Coffin for Thomas Demand; 2008. Lion-, Nokia-, Red Rooster-coffin for Regula Tschumi; 2007. Africa Pulp figures for M.S. Bastian and Isabelle L; 2006. Sculptures for the museum shop of the Kunstmuseum Berne.

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