Upcoming and Current
Exhibition Opening - Eye of a Water - ዐይነ-ዉሃ
Nitja Center for Contemporary Art, Lillestrom, Norway
01 - 11 - 2025
Exhibition Opening - Meet Glomma, Gottormsgaard Archive
Blaker, Norway
08 - 11 - 2025
Past
Panel - Climate Forum IV, Financialization of the Environment; Fluid Practices of Survival and Resistance with Kulagu Tu Buvongan and Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu, moderated by Merve Bedir, L’internationale
Online
05 - 09 - 2025
Performance - Meeting Lake Victoria, (Un)rooting Knowledge, Sustaining The Otherwise
Kampala, Uganda
12 - 16 - 08, 2025
Publication Contribution - 100 Words for Water, A Projective Ecosocial Vocabulary, Edited by Eva Franch i Gialbert, Maria Luzarraga, Alejandro Muino, Water Parliaments
2025
Performance - Retrieving Parchment Books from Glomma, Guttormsgaards Archive
Blaker, Norway
27 - 06 - 2025
Oslo Open - Open Studio, Robel Temesgen Studio, Romsås Senter 1
Oslo, Norway
26 - 06 - 2025
One Night Installation - Oslo Open 25th Anniversary of Open Studios, Kunstnernes hus
Oslo, Norway
25 - 06 - 2025
Artist Conversation - Musafiri; Of travellers and Guests: With Choy Ka Fai, Idas Losin, Robel Temesgen, Musquiqui Chihying, Yudi Rafael, Anne Samat. Moderated by Cosmin Costinaş and Lama El Khatib, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (HKW)
Berlin, Germany
08 - 03 - 2025
Midterm evaluation - Practising Water: of rituals and engagements, Oslo National Academy of the ArtsOpponent: Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen
Oslo, Norway
21 - 01 - 2025
Performance - New Waters: Robel Temesgen and Glomma, Guttormsgaards Archive
Blaker, Norway
24 - 11 - 2024
Artist Talk - Marginalised art histories and their potential: Robel Temesgen, Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, Alexandra GuleaModerator: Cosmin Costinaș
Timisoara, Romania
19 - 10 - 2024
Book Launch - Publication expanded, Where is Africa Edited by Emanuel Admassu and Anita Batman (PhD), CARA
New York, USA
Feb 8 - 11, 2024
Performance engagement - Cleansing and Cleaning; Rituals, in collaboration with Margrethe Petterson, Academy of Rhythmorphologies #2
Oslo, Norway
29 - 09 - 2023
Book Launch - Practising Water; report#1 published by Kunsthall Oslo, Chart Book fair
Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 24 - 27 2023
Artist Talk - 30ti - Kunstnerneshus
Olso, Norway
06 - 06 - 2023
Artistic Research Lecture - Sleeping With(in) Water, Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Oslo, Norway
20 - 03 - 2023
Exhibition review - O'livgivenda Nil - Kunstkritikk by Nora Young
Lingen, Germany
03 - 03 - 2023
Exhibition Review - Robel Temesgen: Faces of Stories - ARTFORUM International Vol. 287 Post VandalismBy Susanne Duchting
Germany
Performance/presentation - Unreasonable collectivity, On GIZE Collective, with Berhanu Ashagrie - Depot, and PhD in Practice, Akbild
Vienna, Austria
14 - 12 - 2022
Artist Talk - Kunsthallen Lingen
Lingen, Germany
04 - 12 - 2022
Lingen Art Prize - Kunsthallen Lingen
Oslo, Norway
02 - 12 - 2022
Workshop - Turn2 Lab #1
Nairobi Contemporary Art Center - Nairobi, Kenya
03 - 06 November 2022
Book Launch, As you Go... Roads Under your feet, towards the new future
Bor, Serbia
17 September 2022
Mourning Performance - Bor Encounters
Bor, Serbia
15 - 21 September 2022
Publication feature - The Sole Adventurer TSA, Collectors Series #1: Artists and Cities
18 June 2022
Painting worksop - Prosjekt Skole and Kunsthall Oslo
Oslo, Norway
20 - 21 June, 2022
Solo Show - In The Closet
Oslo, Norway
27 May, 2022
2022 Recipient of Lingen Art Prize
Kunsthalle Lingen, Lingen, Germany
December 2022
Faux Book fair pilot
Oslo National Academy of The Arts, Oslo, Norway
30 March, 2022
Artist Talk - Ph.D in Practice
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
12 January 2022
Workshop - Addis Newspaper
Maddi, Tromsø, Norway
11 December, 2021
Exhibition- Curtain
Rockbund Art Museum/Para Site, Hong Kong, China
14 May - 11 July, 2021
Exhibition/Publication - 'Death to the Curator', as part of GIZE collective
Kunsthall Oslo, Oslo, Norway
19 March - 02 May, 2021
Exhibition - 'This Is Not Africa – Unlearn What You Have Learned'
ARoS Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
27 March - 24 Oct, 2021
Symposium - As you go... roads under your feet, towards the new future
Ljubljana, Melbourne, Addis Ababa, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Astana
22 - 31 March, 2021
Exhibition - Home is, Contemporary Video Art from Ethiopia and Ethiopian Diaspora, Addis Video Art Festival
Center for Digital Art, Israel
25 Feb - 19 June 2021
Lecture Performance, Addis News Paper- The Chinese Issue
Guramayne Art Center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
February, 2020
Workshop- Addis Newspaper
Tromso Academy of Contemporary Art, Tromsø, Norway
October, 2019
Keynote Speech, Reflections on International Aspects in Arts Education - Academy of Contemporary Art and Creative Writing UIT
Tromso, Norway
October, 2019
Publication - Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold
Institute For Spatial Experiment, Berlin, Germany
June, 2019
Exhibition - Making the News: Reading between the lines, from Peterloo to Meskel Square
Portico Library, Manchester, UK
July 5 - September 23, 2019
Reading Performance - Addis Newspaper, To Care is to Become, Workshop by Berhanu Ashagrie
Addis Ababa Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
23 July, 2019
Reading Performance – Censorship, Cultural Struggle, and Freedom
Selam Culture Forum Addis Ababa
1 May, 2019
Nominator for Emerging Painting invitational Prize
Harare, Zimbabwe
June, 2019
Two Person Show with Tegene Kunbi- RE:PUBLIC
Circle Art Agency, Nairobi, Kenya
June 5, 2019
Group Show - Addis 2019 - Africa as Concept and Method: Emancipation, Decolonization, Freedom
Addis Abeba Museum, Ethiopia
January 5 - 20 2019
Open Studio - Africa First Residency
Tel Aviv, Israel
December 9, 2018
Group Show – Addis Foto Fest 2018
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
December 15 - 20 2018
Group Show – ነጋሪ : Manifesto
Guramayne Art Centre, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Opening October 5, 2018
Artist in Residency - AFRICA FIRST Residency
Tel Aviv, Israel
October - December 2018
Solo Show - Min Nebere?
Modern Art Museum, GKDC, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
12 April - 31 May 2018
Solo Show - Floating Jebenas
Fendika Cultural center, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
22 February - 30 March 2018
Solo Show - Confluence
Tiwani Contemporary, London, UK
26 January - 31 March 2018
Solo Show - There is No Politics in Painting?
Stockholm, Sweden
27 Sept - 03 December, 2017
Festival of Future Nows 2017 → ∞
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart - Berlin
14-09 - 17 - 09 - 2017
Artist Talk
Moderna Museet Malmo, Sweden
24 May 2017
AGORA ARTES
Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin
29 Apr - 14 May 2017
Art Brussels
Prime Section
21 - 23 Apr, 2017
IASPIS Open House
Stockholm, Sweden
24 March, 2017
The Gathering
Art, Space and the City
17 - 19 feb, 2017
NADA Art Fair
Deauville Beach Resort, Miami Beach
1 - 4 Dec, 2016
Uncertain States, Panel with Olafur Eliasson, Robel Temesgen and Rike Scheffler
26 Oct, 2016
Uncertain States, Artistic Strategies in States of Emergency
Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin
IASPIS, Stockholm Residency - Robel Temesgen has been granted the IASPIS Konstnärsnämnden Residency
The Swedish Arts Grants Committee, Stockholm, 2017
Junge Akademie, One Year Scholarship program
Akademie Der Kunste, Berlin
April 2016 - May 2017
Constellated Dots, Small Projects
Tromso, Norway (Solo)
7 - 22 May 2016
Video Art Festival, Ethiopian AVAF, IVAHM, New Media Arts Festival
Museum la Neomudeja, Madrid, Spain
May 5 - May 15 2016
Adbar, Tiwani Contemporary
London, UK (Solo)
7 January 2016 - 6 February 2016
Grounded in Movement, Addis Video Art festival (AVAF)
Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
23 December 2015 - 03 January 2016
Adbar, Kurant Visningsrom
Tromso, Norway (solo)
15 - 25 October 2015
Disappearing Acts, MONDO Books, Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF)
Svolvær, Norway
28 August - 27 September, 2015
Eye on the Hand, Tegnerforbundet,
06 -25 January 2015