We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight

Zeitz MOCAA presents We Proceed in the Footsteps of the Sunlight, the first museum survey of Ghanaian-German artist Zohra Opoku, open from 11 September 2025 to 4 October 2026. Tracing a decade of "quiet revolutions" in cloth and memory, the exhibition showcases Opoku’s mastery of textiles, photography, and printmaking to explore the intersections of identity and ancestral lineage. Guided by the themes of water, breath, and ground, the survey follows the artist’s journey from East Germany to her ancestral home in Accra, Ghana. The exhibition title, inspired by ancient Egyptian funerary texts, frames Opoku’s work as a textured archive of selfhood and a profound record of cultural passage