Ibrahim Mahama. Le Temps des récoltes

In autumn 2026, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Le Temps des récoltes, an exhibition of unprecedented scale in France by Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama, accompanied by nine associated artists: Dorothy Akpene Amenuke, Gideon Appah, James Barnor, Cercle d’Art des Travailleurs de Plantation Congolaise (CATPC), Courage Dzidula Kpodo, Zohra Opoku, Postbox Ghana, Tjaša Rener, Feda Wardak.

Ibrahim Mahama imagines for the Fondation Cartier a living entity in resonance with the art centres he founded in Tamale, northern Ghana.

With associated artists, he takes over all the institution's spaces, place du Palais-Royal, with works created specifically for the venue, as well as unprecedented versions of some of his emblematic installations.

Since its creation, the Fondation Cartier has established itself as a space for dialogue, experimentation, and artistic exploration, attentive to the emerging sites of contemporary creation and the voices that traverse it.

From the 1990s, it played a pioneering role in presenting artists from the African continent, such as Seydou Keïta, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Malick Sidibé, J. D. ’Okhai Ojeikere, and Chéri Samba.

Le Temps des récoltes, Ibrahim Mahama's first Parisian exhibition, in which he collaborates with nine artists and collectives, is part of this continuity.

Ibrahim Mahama (born in 1987 in Tamale, Ghana) has established himself on the international scene with his installations made from collected materials, archives, and fragments of industrial heritage, which he reactivates to shape new imaginaries.

Since the 2010s, he has developed a body of work based on the exploration of Ghana's colonial and post-colonial legacies.

Drawing on his country's industrial and commercial history, he questions the circulation of goods, the transmission of know-how, and the preservation of heritage.

His work highlights political, social, and economic continuities and ruptures, paying particular attention to infrastructures, traces of the past, and collective dynamics.

Conceived by Ibrahim Mahama with nine artists and collectives, all linked to him by long-standing collaborations, research, or exchanges, the exhibition Le Temps des récoltes is a direct extension of this approach. It echoes a