This illustration accompanies Ruth Terry's New York Times article of the 29th of October 2020 on being an active bystander when encountering casual racism.
This illustration accompanies Ruth Terry's New York Times article of the 29th of October 2020 on being an active bystander when encountering casual racism.
This illustration accompanies Ruth Terry's New York Times article of the 29th of October 2020 on being an active bystander when encountering casual racism.
This illustration accompanies Ruth Terry's New York Times article of the 29th of October 2020 on being an active bystander when encountering casual racism.
"Art is a powerful medicine which knows no boundaries when made with respect for life."
About Hélène
Hélène Baum-Owoyele (born 1987, Munich) grew up in Germany, England and France. She graduated in 2011 from l’École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Lyon and then worked in agencies and industry as a graphic designer in Amsterdam and finally Berlin. Since 2017 she has been active as a freelance illustrator and visual artist, creating highly colourful images with watercolour and vector media.
Largely her work aims at empowering BIPoC community and is mostly used in cultural and socio-political contexts around the issues of diversity, inclusivity and ecology.
She also illustrates children's books and loves creating empowering and magical narratives for all.
Coming from a diverse cultural background, what defines her universe is a sense of “collage” and "kaleidoscopic identity" à la créole. Finding strength in literature, ancestry, community, nature and animism, her paintings are as much a spiritual act as a healing tool.
Clients include:
The New York Times, Each One Teach One, WePresent, Karneval der Kulturen, Vox, Science Notes Magazin, Missy Magazine, Google, Harper Collins, Eater, Harvard Business Review, WDR, Radcliffe Magazine, Branch, New Statesman, Tate, Psychologie Heute, C40 Cities, Scoop Magazine, CFFP, Octopus Publishing Group, The Washington Post's 'The Lily', Familiar Faces, Penguin Random House, Women Who Do Stuff, Systemic Justice, United Networks, Carlsen Verlag, Zedela, Gesicht Zeigen ...
Featured in: Science Notes c/o, Creative Boom, Computer Arts Magazine Issue #276, Freelance Wisdom, The Klean (home portrait), The Klean (artist portrait)
Work
Watercolor Illustration:
Transform Daily Objects into Whimsical Characters
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![“If your thoughts have grown somber and a sinister feeling is chilling your bones, it’s time to jump into action! Abandon your spells for abundance and eternal youth, instead prepare to manifest bigger and more urgent truths. Gather your tools, grind, chop, pluck and bind. Draw in the fiercest powers you can find. Remember, we all have a role to play, you will also find your way.”
[Text in the image]
“Bones of ancestress,
Drop of menarche,
I banish the patriarch¥.
Thyme, sage and pesticide,
Bind those who commit g€nocide!”
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#themagician #tarot #halloween #witch #manifest #art #illustration #magic #stopgreed #stopgenocide #stopclimatechange #stoppatriarchy #stopcolonialism #stopcapitalism](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.82787-15/573528221_18532545208002772_2130040634322112793_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiRkVFRC5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=p5WqMIIaF6MQ7kNvwFZiC9V&_nc_oc=Adnx9B9oQHJuDyqi2vFR8eoCXKAlOGDIRDpBMkxOsKBecWAdoM32j0H93X9d8OwsRgY&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=c1yduks_snYSi1Ejgv3I5A&oh=00_AfiukBzFuyxsfNmX1ZniIAhElLtTRFFc5_yoVD4D6t-SCg&oe=691673BB)
![I was honored to be able to make the poster and flyers for this incredible exhibition @ngbk_berlin 👀It’s still on until June 1st and this Saturday 17th May there will be curatorial tours at 15h snd 16h with @mltppr and @majsmoszna
Activist Choreographies of Care: perfocraZe International Artist Residency connects Kumasi and Berlin, intertwining queer stories told in, about, and from those locations. Archival and newly produced artistic works, previous performances and new live actions are linked by an event program, bringing together the communal spirit of the residency with the notion of a gathering space provided by an exhibition display and performance set-up.
The project opens a satellite space of the perfocraZe International Artist Residency [pIAR] from Kumasi, Ghana, in Berlin. pIAR is a self-organized safer space for people of the LGBTQIA+ community in Ghana, which is currently under acute threat from a law disguised as “Promotion of Proper Human Sexual Rights And Ghanaian Family Values Bill”. The law, which was passed by Parliament in February 2024 criminalizes the identification as LGBTQIA+ and the promotion of LGBTQIA+ rights, amongst many other activities. While the law has not been signed by the previous parliament, hence suspending its implementation, the new parliament allegedly plans to include the violent and discriminatory content of the law in school curricula.
Through installation, film, textiles, poetry and performance, the artists engage with the search for queer ancestries, dismantling colonial histories inscribed in bodies and spaces, to build different worlds that hold space for connection, daily resistance, and transformation. Kumasi and Berlin-based artists explore circular narrations and speculative queer futures. Looking at pre-colonial histories, the project gathers artists whose work challenges Western notions of binary genders and queerness, to raise international solidarity and build resilience networks.](https://scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.75761-15/498600938_18499985701002772_1534633402275049993_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=18de74&efg=eyJlZmdfdGFnIjoiRkVFRC5iZXN0X2ltYWdlX3VybGdlbi5DMyJ9&_nc_ohc=KogfqC3UDO8Q7kNvwFiZft_&_nc_oc=AdkTST-OOj-HLtl-ikYQEGKs0ZjEUOIdKSVsn8cXVeve3jkIkuxHOs7jRsTm3hMEvao&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-den2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=c1yduks_snYSi1Ejgv3I5A&oh=00_AfgLVVTeasgjEomBhJ-V8Jsn2aMVU-PSUpl7JnoDejfftw&oe=69167BAB)
