About

Ethiopian artist Tegene Kunbi, born in 1980, garnered acclaim by winning the main prize, Grand Prix Léopold, at the 2022 Dak’Art Biennale. Kunbi completed his studies with a degree in Painting and Art Education from the Fine Arts School at the University of Addis Ababa in 2004 and subsequently served as a lecturer at Kotebe University of Education. In 2008, he was awarded the esteemed DAAD scholarship, enabling him to pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree at the Universität der Künste Berlin, which he attained in 2011.

Exhibitions:

Shapes of Silence at La Biennale di Venezia in Venice Italy (2026)
Dripping time, fading memory at Primo Marella Gallery in Milan, Italy (2025)
Bending Back at Standing Pine in Tokyo, Japan (2024)
Tessellations Through Time at Galerie Dutko in Paris, France (2023)
Meeting Points and Holding On at Gallery 1957 in Accra, Ghana (2023)
Patchwork Freedoms at Primo Marella Gallery in Milan, Italy (2023)
Don't Talk at Bode in Berlin, Germany (2023)
Tegene Kunbi at Barbara Thumm Gallery in Berlin (2022)
Warp and Weft at Primo Marella Gallery in Milan, Italy (2022)
Re: public at Circle Art Gallery in Nairobi, Kenya (2019)

Images courtesy of Ethiopia Pavilion (Press Release 2026).

Video credits: Director - Joanna Ratajczak | Cinematography - Joanna Piechota | Editor - Patricja Piróg
A production by Lara Lurex Film UG | Berlin 2025