Atta Kwami

Richly illustrated, this first monograph devoted to this influential Ghanaian artist brings together important works from his four-decade career, up to the Serpentine Mural, created shortly before his death.
In 2021, Atta Kwami won the prestigious Maria Lassnig Prize in collaboration with Serpentine, associated with this first monograph on his work and the commission of a mural in the Serpentine North Garden. This work, on display between 2022 and 2024, is inspired by a painting that Kwami reworked in his studio in 2021, shortly before his death. The richly illustrated book contains an unpublished interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as new commissions and a selection of important works from Kwami’s career.

The first richly illustrated monograph devoted to the influential Ghanaian artist brings together important works from his four-decade career, up to the Serpentine mural created shortly before Kwami’s death.

Atta Kwami won the prestigious 2021 Maria Lassnig Prize in partnership with Serpentine, which consisted of the production of this first monograph on his work and a commission for a mural at Serpentine North Garden, to be displayed between 2022 and 2024. The mural is based on a painting that Kwami was reworking in his studio in 2021, shortly before his death. Richly illustrated, the book includes an unpublished interview with the artist by Hans Ulrich Obrist, as well as new commissions and a selection of important works from Kwami’s career.