Exhibitions
2025
Speaking Volumes Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
‘Speaking Volumes’ features ceramics, textiles and works on paper by Mawuena Kattah. The exhibition brings together a spectrum of fascinations and urgencies: mapping and worldbuilding, the repetition of patterns and movements, and experiments with colour and composition. The works are both living vessels for personal thoughts and reflections, and tangible expressions of our shared experience of being human. Participating artists: Nicole Storm (Creative Growth, USA), Monica Valentine (Creative Growth, USA), Alan Faulds (Artlink, UK), Mawuena Kattah (Intoart, UK), Mattias Johansson (Inuti, Sweden) & David Cheung (Malmö, Sweden).
2020
Collect International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design
For Collect International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design at Somerset House, Intoart presented ceramic works by Mawuena Kattah and her new collaboration with textile practitioner Laura Slater. Their new series of unique textile works embody a strong sense of pattern, mark-making and narrative found in family and personal iconography culminating in large scale hand screenprinted linen works. Seven fabrics adorned the walls of the space including individually realised work and collaborative designs by Kattah and Slater.
From an impressive selection of over 42 stands Intoart are proud to have been awarded ‘Outstanding Display by a Gallery’.
Two major acquisitions were also made by the Victoria and Albert Museum for their permanent collection – the ceramic tiled frieze ‘Auntie, Mum and Me talking about my Fabric Collection’ by Mawuena Kattah and ‘Eye’ screen printed linen (Pink colourway) collaborative fabric design by Mawuena Kattah and Laura Slater.
2019
Arts Council Collection – Touring Exhibition
‘Criminal Ornamentation’
Curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE
Showing nearly 100 works by more than 50 artists including Andy Goldsworthy, Sarah Lucas, Sonia Boyce, Susan Derges, Mona Hatoum, David Nash, Bridget Riley and Yinka Shonibare MBE.
Shonibare has chosen works that surprise and dazzle. From a sequined dress by Alexander McQueen to nineteenth-century wallpaper by William Morris, his selection tells a story of objects that refuse to be confined.
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter / Longside Gallery (YSP), Wakefield / Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton.
2018
Arts Council Collection ‘Walls Have Ears - 400 Years of Change’ Aston Hall Birmingham
Inspired by this great house and its location, ‘Walls Have Ears: 400 Years of Change’ is an exhibition of contemporary portraiture and representations of history, culture, class and race, featuring artists from the Arts Council Collection, and Birmingham’s collection.
Artists include Richard Billingham, Faisal Abdu’Allah and Kofi Allen, Vanley Burke, Lisa Cheung, Sylvester Jacobs, Mawuena Kattah, Ryan Mosley, Eugene Palmer, Paul Rooney, Zineb Sedira, Donald Rodney, Stephen Earl Rogers, Emma Rushton, Barbara Walker, Richard Wilson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
2017
Victoria & Albert Museum
Fashioning Space
A bespoke installation in the V&A Fashion galleries for London Design Festival 2017 bringing together garments, textile hangings and furniture in silk, cotton and a new hand screen printed linen by Mawuena Kattah.
2016
Ceramics, Textiles & Works on Paper, Tenderbooks
A body of work incorporating bold textile design, large scale ceramics and intimate works on paper to create an immersive display at Tenderbooks. Drawn from an extensive personal archive of family photographs taken in Ghana, and new studio photographs of family taken in London, Kattah’s works bring people and pattern together in complex, vibrant compositions.
2009
Whitechapel Gallery London - See The Revolutionary Art Exhibit
An exhibition presenting artwork by Ntiense Eno Amooquaye, Mawuena Kattah, Doreen McPherson and Clifton Wright, curated by Marijke Steedman. Full Catalogue of the exhibition including text by writer and art historian Malcolm Bull published by Intoart.
Events and Screenings
2016
Victoria & Albert Museum
A display and event at the Victoria and Albert Museum bringing together Mawuena Kattah’s significant body of work in ceramics, textiles and works on paper with a new film, screened and a new artists’ book.