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Harold Offeh, Lounging, 2017. Photograph. Courtesy the artist.
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In Conversation and Book Launch: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet

Tuesday 17 February, 7-8.15pm (exhibition open from 6.30pm)

Join us for an in conversation between Harold Offeh and Sepake Angiama to celebrate the new publication Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, it Could Be Sweet.

Book Now £12 (£9 Friends, £6 students and Open House Community card holders), booking required

Artist Harold Offeh will be in-conversation with Sepake Angiama, Artistic Director of Institute for International Visual Art (inIVA) and one of the contributors to the book. There will also be an opportunity to visit Offeh’s exhibition prior to the event.

About the exhibition

Harold Offeh lunging whilst holding a selfie stick, in front of an orange wall.
15 November 2025 – 1 March 2026

Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet

The first major solo exhibition of Harold Offeh’s work in a UK institution, this exhibition will explore two decades of the artist’s videos, performances and projects that have taken place across the world.

For more than twenty years, Offeh (b. 1977, Ghana) has been making playful, provocative performance and video works that explore subjects ranging from pop culture to identity and conformity.

Harold Offeh: Mmm, Gotta Try a Little Harder, It Could Be Sweet
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About Harold Offeh

About Sepake Angiama

Sepake Angiama is a curator and educator living and working in London. She is the Artistic Director for the Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva) which is a leader in the discourse of the political and social implication of globalisation. The Institute is the home of the Stuart Hall Library that centres artistic research, collective study, experimentation, play and dialogue with African, Asian and global majority diaspora artists and their communities. Angiama’s previous writing has focussed on speculative fiction, architecture and radical education.

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Please note, for conservation and security reasons, no bags or large coats are allowed in the house. Limited bag storage is available at reception.

This event will take place in the extension of the house which is accessible, with some limitations. The upper part of the ground floor extension area is accessible for wheelchair users and the ground floor extension area of the house is newly accessible for wheelchair users with a ramp. There is no lift to the upper floors of the house. If you call in advance or ask at the information desk we can reserve an accessible seat for you. Please get in touch on 01223 748100 or email mail@kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk.

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