Where We Coalesce

Tadesse Mesfin | Addis Fine Art x Vigo Gallery 15 Sep - 30 Nov 2024 Addis Ababa, London Addis Fine Art and Vigo Gallery are pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by Tadesse Mesfin (b. 1953). Featuring works on canvas from the last four years, the presentation takes place across Addis Fine Art, Addis Ababa (15 September – 30 November, 2024) and Vigo Gallery, London (20... Read more

ورد الجوري ‘Ward El Juri’

Amel Bashier 24 Apr - 29 Jun 2024 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to present Amel Bashier’s solo exhibition ورد الجوري ‘Ward el Juri,’ named for her daughter and translating to ‘damask rose.’ The exhibition features new paintings and recent works on paper. Amel’s works are reflections on the nature and possibilities of freedom. She paints towards the... Read more

Surface Tension

Selome Muleta & Youssra Raouchi 7 Mar - 13 Apr 2024 London We are pleased to present a joint exhibition of Selome Muleta and Youssra Raouchi. Together, the artists explore the bodies and spaces we inhabit. They take on what it means to feel at home, the ways in which we curate our interior worlds, and the mythical and ephemeral nature of... Read more

Floating Souls

Engdaye Lemma 18 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 London We are pleased to present Engdaye Lemma’s first solo exhibition, Floating Souls, at Addis Fine Art London. Engdaye Lemma’s (b. 1980) experimental print-making practice synthesises screen-printing, painting, and collage media. Exploring the many ways in which life and culture intertwine, his work interrogates the texture of society. Engdaye takes inspiration... Read more

A World Grows Within

Merikokeb Berhanu 9 Nov 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 London Merikokeb Berhanu (b. 1977, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at Addis Ababa University, Alle School Fine Arts and Design in 2002, where she studied painting under the tutelage of a generation of Ethiopian modernist painters. Following her graduation, Merikokeb and her contemporaries founded an artist-run studio... Read more

Headfirst

Noah Beyene 7 Sep - 21 Oct 2023 London We are thrilled to be presenting Headfirst, a debut exhibition by Noah Beyene, at our London gallery's AFA Project Space in September 2023. 'A naked man is caught suspended, mid-dive, above a glassy, black lake. His torso and thighs are illuminated by a kind of parchment green, like an El... Read more

Eastern Voices: Contemporary Artists from East Africa

Group Show in collaboration with Afriart Gallery and Circle Art Gallery 1 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 London We are pleased to announce Eastern Voices: Contemporary Artists from East Africa, a group show featuring eighteen artists from Ethiopia, Kenya, Egypt, Uganda, Eritrea, and Sudan. This survey exhibition aims to foster dialogues and highlight synergies between artists and galleries working in East Africa today. Exhibiting artists include Adiskidan Ambaye,... Read more

Synthesis of Souls

Tizta Berhanu 27 Apr - 27 May 2023 London London - Addis Fine Art is pleased to present Tizta Berhanu: Synthesis of Souls. The exhibition marks her first European solo show. The exhibition opens in our London space on Thursday, April 27 and is on view until Saturday, May 27. Read more

Woven Moments

Dawit Adnew 9 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 London Dawit Adnew is based in Addis Ababa and attended the Alle School of Fine Art and Design in Addis Ababa. Occasionally working from images or models, Dawit’s process is highly experimental. His practice is informed by studies in masks and iconography, and his use of patterns and fabric emerges from his experience as a textile designer. Surrounded by blooming flowers and creeping foliage, the women depicted in his canvases seem to communicate wordlessly with one another, drawing the viewer into their silent dialogue.
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AFA Project Space Amel Bashier

Amel Bashier 9 Feb - 15 Apr 2023 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to announce the inauguration of our Project Space exhibition, a solo presentation of new works by Sudanese pointillist painter Amel Bashier.

AFA Project Space is our new initiative to invite and collaborate with select emerging galleries and artists, focusing on artists from the Global South.

AFA Project Space aims to provide a unique opportunity for international artists and galleries not based in London, to present exhibitions and events in our lower ground floor gallery space in central London. Read more

Column of Rhythm

Tadesse Mesfin 13 Oct - 16 Dec 2022 London Addis Fine Art is delighted to announce the second European solo exhibition by Tadesse Mesfin. Tadesse holds a unique position as both a figurehead of the Ethiopian modernist movement and as a long-time educator through his role as a professor at the influential Alle School of Fine Art and Design... Read more

In Between I

Girmachew Getnet 13 Sep - 1 Oct 2022 London Addis Fine Art London is pleased to announce our first European solo exhibition with Germany based figurative painter Girmachew Getnet. Through his work, Girmachew seeks to capture the universality of lived experience. His paintings abound with human figures, expressed in different colours in celebration of our multiplicity of perspectives, origins,... Read more

Floating City

Addis Gezehagn 24 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to announce the first European solo show by Addis Gezehagn, opening at our London gallery in June, 2022. The works in Floating City are from his eponymous series, which explores the rapidly urbanising environment of Addis Ababa through abstract mixed media paintings. Gezehagn is known... Read more

Pace of Life

Nigatu Tsehay 13 May - 11 Jun 2022 London Addis Fine Art, London is pleased to present Pace of Life, an exhibition of new paintings by Nigatu Tsehay. The exhibition is a part of the 2022 edition of London Gallery Weekend. For Nigatu Tsehay, art is a fundamentally interrogative process. While it may not always yield definitive answers, painting... Read more

Collapsing Space

Selome Muleta 11 Mar - 23 Apr 2022 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to present Selome Muleta’s debut European solo show, Collapsing Space . This exhibition of the artist’s latest works explores womanhood through the playful merging of portraiture and still life, and examines the relationship between the internal self and the external world. In Collapsing Space, Selome... Read more

I Surrender my Body to Water and Fire

Daniela Yohannes 21 Jan - 19 Feb 2022 London Daniela Yohannes (b. 1982) lives and works in Guadeloupe, in the French Caribbean. Yohannes’ latest body of work is a response to contemporary migration discourse, rendered through a personal, emotive, and Diasporic lens. These paintings meditate on and lament issues surrounding politics of place, freedom of movement, and the desperate... Read more

Cascade of Knowledge

Ermias Kifleyesus 12 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to present Cascade of Knowledge, a solo exhibition by Ermias Kifleyesus. In his latest body of work, informed by his experience as an immigrant inhabiting the liminal point of intersection between two dramatically different cultures, Kifleyesus explores the complex and tense relationship between Africa and... Read more

The Space Between Us

Nirit Takele 8 - 30 Oct 2021 London LAUNCH VIEWING ROOM In Autumn 2021, Addis Fine Art London will be moving into expanded premises in London, opening a two-storey permanent gallery space in the heart of Fitzrovia. The gallery will be launching their new location with a solo exhibition of new paintings by Ethiopian-Israeli Nirit Takele titled, The... Read more

Pillars of Life

Tadesse Mesfin 28 Oct - 13 Dec 2020 London In Autumn 2020, Addis Fine Art London will be permanently relocating to South Kensington’s Cromwell Place. We are launching our new location with an exhibition of Ethiopian modernist Tadesse Mesfin, which will also mark Mesfin’s first-ever European solo show. Read more

The Fall: A Woman’s Descent into the Unconscious

Daniela Yohannes 28 Jun - 20 Jul 2019 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to present, The Fall: A Woman’s Descent into the Unconscious, Daniela Yohannes’ first solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will take place at the Addis Fine Art Project Space in London, opening on Thursday 27 May from 6 – 9 PM, and on view from 28 June – 20 July 2019, Tues – Sun 12 – 6 PM. Read more

Beneath the Surface: The Mysteries of Living and Dying

Merikokeb Berhanu 24 Apr - 11 May 2019 London Addis Fine Art is pleased to present Beneath the Surface: The Mysteries of Living and Dying, Merikokeb Berhanu’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will take place at the Addis Fine Art Project Space in London, opening on Tuesday 23 April from 6 – 9 PM, and on view from 24 April to 11 May 2019, Tues – Sun 12 – 6 PM. Read more

Flying with Angels

Nirit Takele 25 Oct - 17 Nov 2018 London Addis Fine Art is delighted to present “Flying with Angels” a solo exhibition of paintings by Nirit Takele, at the AFA Project Space in London from 25 October to 17 November 2018. Read more