Tjaša Rener

Born in 1986 in the former Yugoslavia, Tjaša Rener moved to Ghana in 2013, settling in a village on the shores of Lake Bosumtwi, before moving to the capital Accra in 2016. Her work explores how personal narratives and political legacies can intertwine, opening up spaces for collective and transnational reflection.
In 2022, she created a miniature gallery in a shoebox outside her studio in a working-class neighborhood of Accra, offering passersby and locals a program of exhibitions on a small-scale format.

In 2023, she participated in the Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts in Slovenia, curated by Ibrahim Mahama, where she presented the installation known as Place We Call Home (2023). The work examines the relationship between Ghana and the former Yugoslavia through the reconstruction of the living room of Metoda Appiah, a Slovenian woman living in Accra.

In the installation Between Arrival and Belonging (2026), Tjaša Rener brings together documents and photographs dating from the 1960s and 1970s, showcasing the political and emotional migrations that marked the history of the non-aligned countries. This movement was founded in 1961 in Belgrade by Presidents Tito (Yugoslavia), Nehru (India), and Nkrumah (Ghana) to offer an alternative to the two Cold War blocs (cf. the timeline on display in the documentation space).