Yenatfenta Abate

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Yenatfenta Abate ( Amharic የናት ፋንታ አባተ ; born November 30, 1973 in Ethiopia ) is an Ethiopian-German artist with a focus on fine art. She has lived and worked in Berlin since 2008 .

Life

Yenatfenta Abate's artistic development goes back to early childhood and developed intensively when she began studying at the School of Fine Arts in Addis Ababa , where she was the only woman in her class to be enrolled.

In 1990 Abate received the “Montreal Prize”, an award that was linked to a scholarship that made it possible to continue studying abroad. She opted for Germany, followed by a degree in art education at the Heidelberg University of Education . In 1993 she moved to the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg and, after successfully completing her basic studies, studied "Fine Art". She finished her studies in 2003 with a diploma from Professor Olav Christopher Jenssen as the best of the year.

In 2004 she went on to study as a master class student with Franz Erhard Walther , which ended in 2008 with an extensive exhibition.

Yenatfenta Abate designed one of the first Buddy Bears , which will be set up as representatives of Berlin and Germany at all German embassies in the world. The German ambassador in Addis Ababa, Joachim Schmidt , presented this to the Ethiopian public for the first time in May 2015.

Exhibitions (selection)

Since 1998 she has shown her paintings, drawings and sculptures in solo and group exhibitions in Germany and abroad. She has received several performance grants, numerous awards and represented her home country Ethiopia at top-class art exhibitions.

Solo exhibitions

United Buddy Bear for Ethiopia (2nd from right), designed by Yenafenta Abate, here: exhibition in Berlin (2009/2010)
  • 2013: My Situation (September 2013 to January 2014) in the International Club in the Foreign Office
  • 2012: Mein Blick , Rotenburg / Wümme Art Association
  • 2006: Seel Lehageri , Museum Rade
  • 2005: Free Art Felega l , Galerie Peter Herrmann, Berlin

Group exhibitions

  • 2008 and 2009: Project Free Art Felega ll and III , - Artist in Residence - Program of the Goethe Institute Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • 2007: Millennium Exhibition , Washington DC, Blackburn Gallery
  • 2006: Ethiopia and Germany - 100 Years, Dresden State Art Collections, Grassi Museum Leipzig
  • 2003: United Buddy Bears , Berlin, in the following years on all 5 continents
  • 1999: Exhibition and catalog - Art in the Stock Exchange , Hamburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Embassy Addis Ababa: "Ethiopian-German Buddy Bear presented" ( Memento of the original from June 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.addis-abeba.diplo.de
  2. ↑ Solo exhibition my situation at the ICAA
  3. ^ Gallery Peter Herrmann, exhibition of works by Yenatfenta Abate
  4. ↑ Exhibitions of the United Buddy Bears, 2003 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Abate, Yenatfenta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES የናት ፋንታ አባተ (Amharic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ethiopian-German artist with a focus on free art
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Ethiopia