Curatorial Intensive Symposium: Addis Ababa

May 19, 2014
11am –5 pm

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

British Council

Comoros Street
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Join ICI's participants of the Curatorial Intensive in Addis Ababa, in collaboration with Zoma Contemporary Art Center (ZCAC), for a public symposium at the British Council, where they will present their exhibition and project proposals. From May 13–May 19, 2014, this program offered curators the opportunity to explore art production and international connections currently developing in Ethiopia, while discussing among colleagues, the concepts, logistics, and challenges of organizing exhibitions globally.

The final presentations will be given in three sessions focused on the following themes:

1. Recovering Memory: archives and collections

2. Understanding Contexts and Creating Networks: international exchanges

3. Artistic Practice and Public Space

FREE and open to the public

Presenters

Balimunsi Philip

Born of Kabuye Benedict family, Balimunsi Philip is the curator of Uganda National Cultural Centre and the Uganda National Gallery known as Nommo gallery.

Helen Carey

Helen Carey is Director of Fire Station Artists’ Studios in Dublin, Ireland.

Makeda Damtew

Makeda Damtew is a curator and assistant lecturer at Addis Ababa University Alle School of Fine Arts and Design.

Mohamed Hussein

Mohamed Hussein is a freelance artist, curator and designer from Baghdad.

Mihret Kebede

Mihret Kebede is an artist/poet, who graduated from Addis Ababa University School of Fine Arts and Design in painting with distinction in 2007 and has earned her MA in arts from the same school in 2016.

Wanja Kimani

Wanja Kimani is a visual artist and writer based in Northamptonshire, UK.

Anna Kućma

Anna Kućma is a Kampala-based independent Polish curator, writer, and art project manager.

Georgina Maxim

Georgina Maxim is an artist, curator, initiator of the collective Village Unhu in Harare, Zimbabwe and studied African Verbal and Visual Arts at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Jillian Schultz

Jillian Schultz, originally from Chicago, recently relocated to Los Angeles after five years in Beijing, China.

Fitsum Shebeshe

Fitsum Shebeshe is a curator and painter based in Baltimore and Washington, D.C.

Zoma Wallace

Zoma Wallace is a curator, arts administrator, and experimental artist living and working in her hometown of Washington, DC.

Credits

The Curatorial Intensive Symposium is made possible, in part, by the support of the British Council.