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 Showነጋሪ : 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