Exhibition Takeover: Shepard Fairey

Overview

Come for an immersive evening at Fotografiska Berlin where art, sound, and community converge inside the museum’s exhibition halls for a collective experience.

Inspired by Shepard Fairey’s bold visuals and rich body of work spanning across street art and activism, Otis Mensah, poet, producer, and one of the UK’s most distinctive contemporary voices, brings Fairey’s exhibition Photo Synthesis to live with a musical performance.

Through his music, Mensah challenges audiences to think critically, question societal norms, and explore how art can spark social change.

With your ticket, you may also visit all of our other exhibitions.

Image credit: © Stephanie O’Connor
 

About Otis Mensah

Otis Mensah is a British-born, Berlin-based writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and race. Drawing from a rich lineage of Black musicality that informs their poetic-sonic practice, Otis derives multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature. By queering and subverting biblical scripture and parable, Otis’ work exercises magical realism that strives to muddy the waters of memory and archival material.

Following their tenure as the first Poet Laureate of Sheffield, UK, Otis has performed at Glastonbury Music Festival, We Out Here, XJAZZ!, Fusion Festival and alongside the likes of Moor Mother, Shabaka Hutchings and Little Simz. Otis Mensah’s work stands strong in its lineage of jazz experimentation, rich with multi-instrumental and poetic textures and distinct in its storytelling.
 

Schedule

• 19:00 – Doors Open 
• 19:30 – Live Performance with Otis Mensah 
• 20:30 – End
   

Tickets

• 15 € – Event (incl. Museum Entry)
• 0 € – Fotografiska Members