Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu
Robel Temesgen is an artist and researcher whose practice spans painting, installation, performance, and publication. His work explores the symbiotic relationships between people, places, and spiritual traditions, often engaging with vernacular knowledge systems and the metaphysical dimensions of everyday life. Temesgen’s long-term projects, including Adbar, Addis Newspaper, and ‘Practising Water’, investigate how cultural memory and ritual shape public space and collective experience.
Temesgen recently defended his PhD in Artistic Research at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Since 2010, he has served as a lecturer in the Painting department at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University.
Research project: Practising Water; of rituals and engagementsResearch results
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Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu:
Practising water; of rituals and engagements
(2026).
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Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu:
Practising Water
(2025).
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Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu:
Breaths of Knowledges
(2025).
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Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu:
New Waters; Robel Temesgen and Glomma - Retrieval
(2025).
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New Waters: Robel Temesgen & Glomma - Deposit
(2024).
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Robel Temesgen:
Faces of Stories
(2023).
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Robel Temesgen Bizuayehu:
Practising Water; Report #I
(2023).
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