The painter Tesfaye Urgessa will represent Ethiopia for the country’s first-ever national pavilion at this year’s 60th Venice Biennale, which runs from April 20 until November 24, 2024. His exhibition ...

An Ethiopian chicken farmer, and one of the beneficiaries of a new project involving artist Koen Vanmechelen. (all images courtesy of the International Livestock Research Institute, unless indicated ...

Addis Ababa, August 17, 2025 (ENA)-- Deputy Prime Minister Temesgen Tiruneh has shared his condolences on the death of renowned artist Debebe Eshetu, describing him as one of Ethiopia's most beloved ...

Hana Yilma Godine paints women in private moments: in repose on the couch, at the hair salon, preparing for a wedding. The artist, who received her MFA from Boston University in 2020, studied with ...

Urban life can be a tricky, even precarious, walk across a tightrope, referred to in "Tightrope: Behind the Processor #2," the title of this work by Elias Sime. Recently acquired by the New Orleans ...

Engaging with astrology, religion and spirituality, telsem art interweaves symbols, drawings and texts imbued with spiritual and philosophical significance. Although it was originally deployed to heal ...

Issued in connection with an exhibition held Jan. 23-Apr. 29, 2007, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville. Contents The Addis Ababa Fine Arts School : a critically important ...

PARIS, France—Ethiopian artist Julie Mehretu debuted the 20 th BMW Art Car last week in Paris. With her design, Mehretu fused industrial design objects, creating a “performative painting” on the ...

Tibebe Terffa is one of the most well known Ethiopian artists. Although one of his parents was a Catholic, and the other an Orthodox Christian, he was born in the Muslim city of Harar. He attended the ...

A former photojournalist, Aïda Muluneh now creates images that pose questions, rather than offering answers. Muluneh has spent years creating surrealist photographs of stately African women bearing ...