Nubuke Foundation

Nubuke Foundation The Nubuke Foundation seeks to capture, record and promote Ghanaian culture through the arts. Winners of Tourism Attraction of the year 2016, Gt. Accra.

Nubuke Foundation is a non-governmental organization located at East Legon. Nubuke hosts programmes ranging from art exhibitions, poetry and drama, to music and film shows. Other programmes include voice coaching, book reading, training in musical instruments, as well as plays and recitals. Services offered include hanging and displaying services, cataloguing and accessing our email list for invitations.

31/12/2025

When creativity is supported, children are given room to grow.

Presented by Nish McCree () on behalf of the J. Kirby Simon Foreign Service Trust, this support helped make Nubuke Foundation’s recent Christmas Art & Craft Workshop possible—creating a joyful space for the children of La Bawaleshie to imagine, make, and celebrate through art.

In this conversation, Nish reflects on the importance of investing in creative opportunities for children and why programmes like these play a meaningful role in nurturing confidence, curiosity, and learning from an early age.

We’re deeply grateful to partners who believe in the long-term value of supporting children’s creativity.

To support Nubuke Foundation’s children’s programmes, you can donate by visiting the Donate page on our website via the link in our bio, and help us continue nurturing young imaginations.

As we close out the year, please note that Nubuke Foundation will be open for a half day on 31 December, and closed on 1...
29/12/2025

As we close out the year, please note that Nubuke Foundation will be open for a half day on 31 December, and closed on 1 January.

Thank you for spending time with us this year—through exhibitions, workshops, conversations, and community.
We wish you a peaceful end to the year and look forward to welcoming you back in the new one.

🎄✨ Christmas at Nubuke, through little hands and big imaginations ✨🎄Last week, the children of La Bawaleshie joined us f...
25/12/2025

🎄✨ Christmas at Nubuke, through little hands and big imaginations ✨🎄

Last week, the children of La Bawaleshie joined us for a joyful Christmas Art & Craft Workshop, creating handmade ornaments that now adorn this beautiful Christmas tree.

This special workshop was sponsored by the J. Kirby Simon Foreign Service Trust, presented by Nish McCree, whose support made this creative experience possible. We’re also grateful to Michelle Kyei, who facilitated the workshop and thoughtfully guided the children as they brought each ornament to life.

Every decoration tells a story of creativity, joy, and community—and reminds us why these workshops matter.

To support Nubuke Foundation’s children’s programmes, you can donate by visiting the Donate page on our website via the link in our bio, and help us continue nurturing young imaginations.

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The ‘Ending the Beginning…’ exhibition brings together two distinct yet beautifully connected perspectives on tradition,...
17/12/2025

The ‘Ending the Beginning…’ exhibition brings together two distinct yet beautifully connected perspectives on tradition, memory, and craft.

Regula Tschumi (), whose long-term anthropological work in Ghana led her to document the rich world of funerary rituals and figurative coffins. What began as research slowly grew into a dedicated photographic practice. Through her lens, she captures these artworks in moments of transition—being crafted, carried, mourned, and honoured—before they disappear into the ground. Her photographs preserve the stories, symbols, and human encounters surrounding each coffin.

Alongside her work are the sculptural coffins of Eric Kpakpo (), a master craftsman from La and one of the leading figures shaping the future of Ga coffin-making. Eric transforms wood into symbolic forms—roosters, lions, crabs, cocoa pods, airplanes—each one representing identity, lineage, or personal narrative. His bold colours and refined carving build on a long tradition while introducing new interpretations and contemporary influence.

Together, their practices illuminate one another:
Regula documents the world these coffins move through;
Eric creates the forms that speak for the lives they honour.

‘Ending the Beginning…’ is now open until 28 February 2026 at Nubuke Foundation, East Legon.

Visit to experience the full exhibition.

13/12/2025

Ending the Beginning is now open at Nubuke Foundation.

The exhibition brings together sculptural works by Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi, offering a layered exploration of Ga funerary traditions, symbolism, and contemporary cultural expression.

On view until 28 February 2026.

11/12/2025

Opening Today — Ending the Beginning…
11 December 2025 – 28 February 2026

We’re delighted to open ‘Ending the Beginning…’, an exhibition that brings together the sculptural coffin works of Eric Kpakpo and the documentary photography of Regula Tschumi.

Rooted in Ga cultural symbolism, Eric’s practice carries forward a lineage where the coffin becomes the final storyteller—reflecting the life, work, identity, or aspirations of the deceased. His vibrant forms, carved from memory and intuition, expand the tradition into contemporary art and global cultural visibility.

Regula’s work enters the exhibition as a parallel language of witness and preservation, shaped by two decades of ethnographic research and photography in Ghana.

Her photographs document funerals, rituals, and figurative coffins just before they disappear into the earth, offering an intimate encounter with traditions rarely seen beyond their communities.

‘Ending the Beginning…’ opens today at Nubuke Foundation, East Legon.

We invite you to experience this powerful dialogue between craftsmanship, symbolism, memory, and visual anthropology.

Join us this Saturday for a special hands-on workshop inspired by Terracoda — led by the exhibiting artists Miiickey Mad...
09/12/2025

Join us this Saturday for a special hands-on workshop inspired by Terracoda — led by the exhibiting artists Miiickey Madu and Enoch Laryea.

Explore clay through sculptural form and clay-based painting, learn directly from the artists, and create your own piece to take home.

🗓 Saturday, 13 December
⏰ 10 AM – 1 PM
📍 Nubuke Foundation · East Legon
🎨 All materials provided
👥 Limited spaces available

Register at: nubukefoundation.com/workshop
(or tap the link in our bio)

Ending the Beginning11 December 2025 – 28 February 2026Nubuke Foundation presents ‘Ending the Beginning’, an exhibition ...
02/12/2025

Ending the Beginning
11 December 2025 – 28 February 2026

Nubuke Foundation presents ‘Ending the Beginning’, an exhibition featuring the works of second-generation figurative coffin maker Eric Kpakpo and photographs by Regula Tschumi.

Kpakpo’s practice—rooted in Ga funerary traditions and shaped by his apprenticeship with Paa Joe—extends the lineage of figurative coffin making through bold colour, hand-painted surfaces, and refined woodcarving. His forms speak to contemporary expressions of identity, memory, and community.

Eric’s work will be complemented by the photography of Regula Tschumi, a Swiss social anthropologist, PhD graduate, and photographer. Having chosen photography as a means of documenting her ethnographic research in Ghana, her images have become an invaluable resource for studying the traditions of the Ga people.

Her photographs are so authentic that they offer an intimate and open encounter with individuals, even in death. Since 2006, her documentary images of figurative coffins and burial rituals have been exhibited numerous times, including at the Museum of Sepulchral Culture in Kassel, Germany.

Nubuke+ presents Terracoda — a clay-focused exhibition by Enoch Laryea and Miiickey Madu.Terracoda brings together two d...
27/11/2025

Nubuke+ presents Terracoda — a clay-focused exhibition by Enoch Laryea and Miiickey Madu.

Terracoda brings together two distinct yet complementary clay practices, tracing form, process, and the quiet stories the material can hold. Serving as a thoughtful closing gesture to this year’s Nubuke+ programme, the exhibition invites audiences into an intimate dialogue with clay as memory and method.

🗓 Opens: Saturday, 29 November 2025 · 10 AM
👐 Special Workshop: Saturday, 13 December 2025
📍 Nubuke Foundation · East Legon

24/11/2025

In this short reflection, Hanson Akatti () speaks on how the city continues to inform his practice — its rhythm, sound, and daily movement finding their way into his digital paintings and soundscapes.

1:53 PM, Accra — now extended through 28 November 2025.

Now showing at Nubuke Foundation — 1:53 PM, Accra by Hanson Akatti ().Blending impressionistic digital paintings with so...
19/11/2025

Now showing at Nubuke Foundation — 1:53 PM, Accra by Hanson Akatti ().

Blending impressionistic digital paintings with sound recorded across the city, Akatti turns Accra’s rhythm, heat, and stillness into a quiet reflection on memory, place, and time.

On view through 22 November 2025 · 📍 Nubuke Foundation, East Legon

Soundscape by

13/11/2025

“1:53 PM, Accra” by Hanson Akatti — opening soon.
This new exhibition traces the rhythm of the city through impressionistic digital paintings and immersive soundscapes recorded across Accra. Akatti transforms the city’s familiar pulse—its heat, motion, and noise—into quiet meditations on memory, place, and time.

🗓 Opening: Saturday, 15 November 2025 · 10:00 AM
🎤 Artist’s Talk: 3:00 PM
📍 Nubuke Foundation · East Legon

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Lome Close, East Legon . Near Mensvic Grand Hotel
Accra

Opening Hours

Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday 12:00 - 16:00

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+233289102163

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