In February 2026, Gallery FUMI is pleased to present Inherited Beings, a solo exhibition of works by emerging Ghanaian artist Kobina Adusah. Marking Adusah’s first exhibition with the gallery and his welcome as a new addition to the roster of artists, Inherited Beings introduces a new body of ceramic works that articulate the artist’s engagement with ancestry, material memory, and the living histories embedded within clay. Coinciding with the exhibition, Gallery FUMI will present a curated selection of Adusah’s work at Collect 2026 at London’s Somerset House, and a presentation of two significant works at FOG Design+Art 2026 in San Francisco in January.
Adusah approaches clay not as an inert substance, but as a material imbued with ancient storylines. His process is guided by an attentiveness to what the material holds, to what it remembers, what it has endured, and what it can reveal when given form. The artist’s vessels function as sites of mediation between past and present, memory and presence. In giving form to these inherited narratives, Adusah’s works resonate beyond the personal, opening onto shared histories and universal questions of belonging.
Deeply attuned to the long history of ceramics and its origins in antiquity, Adusah crafts time-honoured forms while asserting a visual language that is distinctly his own. Across the surfaces of his works, instinctual patterning and gestural markings unfold like inscriptions, authored through the precision of the artist’s hand. These expressive marks operate as symbols and signals, evoking ancestry, spiritual knowledge, and oral traditions while resisting fixed interpretation.
For Inherited Beings, Adusah brings together three interrelated series of works that express his ongoing dialogue with clay as both medium and witness. The exhibition presents ceramic vessels and large scale sculptural forms that act as carriers of inherited knowledge, shaped by personal lineage and collective experience.
Throughout the exhibition, Adusah’s practice reflects on the ways memory shapes contemporary identity, and how the past remains active within the present. Clay becomes a living embodiment of history, mutable yet enduring. The exhibition affirms Adusah’s position as a vital new voice in contemporary ceramic practice, one who reclaims making as a relational act rooted in memory, material, and ancestral presence.
