Sampson Addae is a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sculpture, textile, painting, and installation. His practice critiques exploitative systems that fuel the excesses of contemporary lifestyles and waste by activating the overlooked and the devalued through the lens of everyday materials.

His works are primarily made from used textiles, which serve as both medium and vessel for social, political, and emotional narratives. He refers to his collection of used textiles as "anonymous bodies."

A critical aspect of his practice is a collaborative process of gathering, remaking, and recontextualizing these "bodies." This process involves individuals across generations and cultures and highlights our shared culpability in this crisis.

Addae uses manual processes such as hand-stitching, knotting, and weaving as gestures of resistance to industrial speed and disposability. These gestures carry both physical labor and emotional weight, serving as forms of repair, mourning, and reactivation of the "anonymous bodies."

Sampson Addae (b. 1991, Ghana) is based in Oslo. He holds a BA in Painting and Sculpture from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana, and completed an MFA at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO) in 2024.

Solo exhibitions include Relics And Warnings, Kunstnerforbundet, 2025, Burdened Skins, KRAFT, 2025, and he has participated in group exhibitions in both Norway and Ghana – among others at the Museum of Science and Technology in Accra, 2021, Østlands­utstil­lingen, 2025, and the Autumn Exhibition (Høst­utstillingen), Kunstnernes Hus, 2024.