Robel Temesgen

CV

EDUCATION

2021 – Present PhD in Artistic Research, National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway.
2015 MA in Contemporary Art, Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing, University of Tromsø, Norway.
2010 BFA (with great distinction) in Painting, Ale School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia

TEACHING/ACADEMIC

Lecturer
Alle School of Fine Arts, College of Performing and Visual Arts, Addis Ababa University.
October 2010 – Present
Foundation Year Courses.
Advanced Drawing Courses.
Medium-Based Undergraduate Courses, Including Watercolor, Acrylic, Oil, Sgraffito, and Fresco.
Alternative Media Exploration, Undergraduate Course.
Conceptual Drawing, Undergraduate Courses.
Composition I and II, Undergraduate Courses.
Main Advisor for Graduation Project, Undergraduate Program.

Coordinator for Graduate Program from 2017-2018
Main Advisor.
The Academy of Fine Art, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, KHiO
August 2024 – Present.
Serve as the Main Advisor for graduate and undergraduate Fine Art students.

Elective course, "Aspects of Water; on understanding relationships”.
Conduct studio tutorials for graduate and undergraduate students.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2027 (upcoming)
Trøndelag Center for Contemporary Art, Trondheim, Norway
2026 (upcoming)
Gallery LNM, Oslo. Norway
2025 (upcoming)
Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, Norway
2024 Entrusting books to Glomma, Guttormsgaard Archive, Blaker, Norway
2023 Practising Water; report #I – Kunsthall Oslo
2022 Faces of Stories – Kunsthallen Lingen, Lingen, Germany
2022 Interior Landscapes – Tromso Kunstforening, Tromso, Norway
2022 Jebenas – In the Closet, Oslo, Norway
2020 Lecture performance, Addis News Paper- The Chinese Issue – Guramayne Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2019 Making the News: Reading between the lines, from Peterloo to Meskel Square, The Portico Library, Manchester, UK
2018 Min Nebere? Modern Art Museum, GKDC, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
2018 Floating Jebenas, Fendika Cultural center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
2018 Confluence, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2017 There is no Politics in Painting?, Marabouparken, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 NADA Miami, Solo representation, Tiwani Contemporary, Miami, USA
2016 Constellated Dots, Small Projects, Tromsø, Norway
2016 Adbar, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
2015 Adbar, Kurant Visningsrom, Tromsø, Norway

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025 (upcoming) Musafiri; Travelers and Guests, HKW, Berlin, Germany.
2024 Land of Fire, Kuntshalle Bega, Timisoara, Romania.
2023 Cleansing and Cleaning Rituals with Margrethe Pettersen, Oslo, Norway.
2023 Chart Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2022 Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway.
2021
This is Not Africa; Unlearn what you have learned. ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark.
Death to the Curator, As part of GIZE Collective, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Home Is, The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Israel.
2020 Coming-together, Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
2019 RE:PUBLIC, Circle Art gallery, Nairobi, Kenya.
2019 Addis 2019 – Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom, Addis Abeba Museum, Ethiopia.
2018
Addis Foto Fest, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ነጋሪ : Manifesto, Guramayne Art Centre, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
Harstad Skole, Harstad, Norway Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, South Africa.
2017
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway.
Festival of Future Nows 2017→ ∞ , Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin.
Art Brussles, Prime Section, Tiwani Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
Agora Artes, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.
Field Work, Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK.
2016
Uncertain States, Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany.
IVAHM, New Media Arts Festival, Museum la Neomudejar, Madrid, Spain.
2015
Addis International Video Art Festival, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
MFA Show, Tromsø. Kunstforening, Tromsø, Norway.
Art Future/Future Signs, Riga, Latvia.
Mondo, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF), Svolvaer, Norway.
Cinema Lada, Modern Art Museum/Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
Cinema Extension, RomeAfrica Film Festival, Rome, Italy.
Grounded in Movement, Lumen Festival, New York, NY, USA.
Øyet I Handen, Tegnerforbundet, Oslo, Norway
2014
Old News, Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany.
Freskt Kjott, Gallery Kurant, Tromsø, Norway.
Collaborative Attempt, Gallery Snerk, Tromsø, Norway.
Addis Art Fair, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
2013
Fana Wogi, Modern Art Museum/Gebre Kristos Desta Center, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
Quansa Revisited, Listros Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
50th Anniversary of the African Union, National Museum, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Heart to Heart from Rome to Addis, National Theatre Gallery, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. 2012
Gursha, Jan Meda, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Café Town (two-person show with Emanuel Tegene), National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
Survivart Exhibition, Gallerea Meinblau, Berlin, Germany.
Ethiopian Visual Artists Association, Laphto Center, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
2011
Summer Festival, Video Documentary, Berlin, Germany.
Free Thought #1, Nesta Art Village/Alliance Ethio-Français, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. Four Freedoms, US Embassy, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
2010
50th Anniversary of African Independence, Paris, France.
BFA Graduation Show, ASFAD, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia
2009
Listro Project, International Artists, Berlin, Germany.
Love Project, Art of Artists’ Books, Ethiopia/Zimbabwe/USA.

RESIDENCIES AND AWARDS

2025 Studio space, Romsås Senter, Oslo Municipality, Norway.
2022 Lingen art Prize, Kunsthall Lingen, Germany.
2022 Exhibition Grant, Kunstsentren i Norge, Norway.
2018 First Africa Artist in Residence, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2017 Iaspis, the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’sInternational Programme for Visual and Applied Artists.
2016 Kulturradet Stipend for graduate Artists, Tromso, Norway.
2016 Junge Akademie one year Scholarship, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany. 2014-2015 Quota Scheme, two Years Scholarship, Tromso, Norway.
2011 Artist in Residence, Zoma Contemporary Art Center, Harla, Dire Dawa, Ethiopia.
Freedom from Fear, Norman Rockwell Foundation, US Embassy, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.
2010 Gold Medal for Outstanding Student of the Year, Addis Abeba University, Ethiopia.
2009 Ethio-Japan Relations One-Year Scholarship

PUBLICATIONS

-Robel Temesgen. Faces of Stories, Kunsthall Lingen, Lingen, 2023
-Robel Temesgen. Practising Water; report #1. Solo exhibition catalog, Kunsthall Oslo, 2023
-Where is Africa Volume 1. Emanuel Admassu and Anita Batman (PhD), CARA, 2023
-As you go… the road under your feet, towards the new future. Mousse Publishing, Belgrade, -2022 Collectors Series: Artists and Cities. TSA, Lagos|Amsterdam, 2022
-Death to the Curator. Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, 2021
-This is not Africa; Unlearn what you have learned. Exhibition Catalog, ARos Museum, Aros, 2021
-Re:Public. Tegene Kunbi, Robel Temesgen. Circle Art gallery, Nairobi, 2019
-Poetry Jazz; Wax and gold. Institute for Spatial Experiments, Berlin, 2019
-Min Nebere? Robel Temesgen, Henok Melkamzer, Exhibition Catalog, GKDC, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, 2018
-Robel Temesgen. Jebenas. Solo Exhibition Catalog, Fendika Cultural Center, Addis Ababa, 2017
-MA. Graduation Catalog, Tromso Academy of Contemporary Art, Tromso, 2015