#Dawit Abebe

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Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery Berlin relocates

Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of its new Berlin gallery in the Mercator Hoefe courtyard on Potsdamer Straße. Opening in January 2025, the Gallery will inaugurate its Berlin space with a solo exhibition by Dawit Abebe.

This expansive new space will further the gallery’s ambitious and diverse exhibition programme, with increased capacity for the presentation of large-scale works and installations. OPENING CELEBRATION PARTY: with DJ and BAR on Thursday, January 16th from 7pm onwards Established in 2012, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery opened its first space in Berlin in 2018 and has since grown to establish itself in…

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Dawit Abebe (b 1978, Ethiopian), graduated from the Alle School of Fine Art and Design, part of Addis Ababa University, in 2001 with a diploma in painting, sculpture, graphics, photography and industrial design. 

His work addresses contemporary concerns about the environment, such as high-tech urbanisation and human idea of progress. In 2001, he founded the Habesha Art Studio in his native Ethiopia, where he continues to be a full-time artist-in-residence.

https://www.dawitabebe.com

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Dawit Abebe - No.2 Background 4, 2014

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No. 2 Background 5, Dawit Abebe, 2014

mixed media painting

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Dawit Abebe (Ethiopian, born 1978), X Privacy 33, 2016

Dawit Abebe’s new, poetic drawings from his X Privacy series depict figures looming dramatically over urban settings. In his surreal rendering of the body navigating its modern surroundings, Abebe reflects on the effect of technological development and surveillance on human interactions and traditional societal values.

Abebe graduated from the Addis Ababa University School of Fine Art and Design with a Diploma in Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Photography and Industrial Design. Since 2001, he has been a member of the Habesha Art Studio in Addis Ababa.

Abebe’s solo presentations include Background 2, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, London, 2015 and X Privacy, Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Addis Ababa, 2012. Group shows include Pangaea: New Art from Africa and Latin America, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2015 and the touring exhibition Silver Sea Cross-Ship, 2013-2014, as well as the display of the Habesha Art Collection at the National Museum in Addis Ababa, 2014, along with exhibitions in France, the UAE and the USA.

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Last chance to see... Everything Exists Now at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

Last chance to see… Everything Exists Now at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

  Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery has put together a group show with an international roster in Everything Exists Now, closing this Saturday, 18th February 2017.

“Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber?… Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why.” -Kurt Vonnegut,…

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Dawit Abebe, No. 2 Background 35 (2016). Courtesy Kristin Hjellegjerde.

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Dawit Abebe, World 4 2016 Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery

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Dawit Abebe, 'No.2 Background 1', 2014

Photo: Saatchi Gallery

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Dawit Abebe - No. 2 Background 5, 2014

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PANGAEA II: NEW ART FROM AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA 11 March 2015 - 17 September 2015

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Gallery notes

In Dawit Abebe’s observations of human kind, strange figures turn away from the world. As silent witnesses, their often-gaunt affliction and melancholic surroundings suggest they are bodies in exile, or the subjects of an unknown trauma. Together, they command the foreground of Abebe’s narrative drawings, in which proportions become distorted through surreal re-imaginings of a parallel reality. Their limbering forms can be seen hurling shadows along vertical lines, as their bodies dwarf cities in their wake. Devoid of individual description, these hybrid ‘beings’ become stationed in permanent view, eclipsing whatever there is to be witnessed ahead of them: the fate of mankind perhaps.

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Art Radar speaks to the rising star from Ethiopia as his works appear in summer shows from London to Nairobi.

http://artradarjournal.com/2015/06/26/ethiopian-painter-dawit-abebe-interview/

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Some African Art @ Saatchi Gallery, London

I managed to sneak a brief visit to the Saatchi Gallery into my working trip to London yesterday. Here’s a few snaps of my favourite pieces from their current exhibition of African and South American art. Please forgive the dullness of my camera… clearly I haven’t got the settings sorted yet. 

Eddy Illunga Kamuanga (Kinshasa): 

Dawit Abebe (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): 

Boris Nzebo (Douala, Cameroon):

As you can see, there’s a lot of great work on display. Nzebo, Kamuanga and Abebe were my favourite artists but the above is just a fraction of the current exhibition and there’s a wide variety of styles throughout the gallery. If you get the chance, do visit the Saatchi Gallery (it’s free entry too, in case you’re wondering). 

http://www.saatchigallery.com/

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Esti Yengeregn By Aster Abebe #Christian #Gospel #EthiopianChristian #EthiopianGospel #Mezmur #djphatsu Music By: Dawit Getachew Buy Album: http://apple.co/2ttpV6n Lyrics: http://bit.ly/2syYL1t (at Djphatsu.com)