Martin Toloku

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Martin Toloku is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice evolved over the years from carving to installation, performance, video work, studio practice and collaboration with animals, specifically termites and aquatic species. He is fascinated about the deterioration of materials and the memories they inhabit. Through experimental inquiries, he seeks to explore spontaneity as a revolutionary aesthetic while investigating decay in relation to time, space, life, and death.

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Immortal Smell

Martin Toloku (1992) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Adidome, Ghana, currently based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Toloku’s interdisciplinary practice spans performance, installation, and collaborative projects, often engaging themes of memory, presence, and transformation.

He is a board member of perfocraZe International Artist Residency (pIAR) in Kumasi , Ghana and Alumni of Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam/The Netherlands. Toloku’s work has been exhibited among other countries in Ghana, Mexico, Germany and the Netherlands including exhibitions like Manifestation 43 at Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2024–2025) and A STATE OF GRACE at Motormond, Amsterdam (2024). Toloku has performed in venues internationally, including Missing (One) at Performance Club, Loods6, Amsterdam (2025) and Duologue at Drawing Centre Diepenheim (2024).