Artists

Tesfaye Urgessa

Press release

National Participation - Ethopia // New Participation
 
The exhibition Prejudice and Belonging for the first Ethiopia Pavilion encompassed the experience of the thirteen years spent in Germany studying and painting.

“People tend to think I am painting victims in my canvases but it’s completely different. The figures hold all kinds of emotions, fragility as well as confidence. It is the figure presented without any judgement. It is saying this is who I am, this is what I am,” - Tesfaye Urgessa.

Commissioner: Amb. Demitu Hambisa Bonsa
Curator: Lemn Sissay OBE FRSL