Mihret Kebede

Mihret is a multidisciplinary artist and poet, renowned as a co-founder of Tobiya Poetic Jazz, Netsa Art Village Artists Collective, and the Addis International Video Art Festival. In recognition of her work and contributions to the cultural landscape, she received a certificate award from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in Ethiopia in 2013.
Mihret's artistic journey spans numerous local and international art exhibitions,
workshops, poetry performances, and collaborative projects across cultures. Beyond her creative pursuits, she is celebrated. for her pivotal role in organizing both local and international art events and festivals.
Her works, poems, and essays have been featured in prestigious publications such as "Wax and Gold: Poetry Jazz" by Tobiya Poetic Jazz and Institut für Raumexperimente/Studio Olafur Eliasson, "Stille Macht" Silence und Dekolonisierung, and Modernist Art in Ethiopia. Furthermore, her poems have been published in esteemed platforms including Washington Square Review by the NYU creative writing program, Poetry International, "Lyrikline" House of Poetry, World Literature Today, "Lichtungen - Zeitschrift für Literatur," Circumference
Magazine, "Poetica7" Cologne University, Le Nom Du Son: Une Anthologie Jazz et Poesie, and the first-ever anthology of Amharic poetry in English, "Songs We Learn from Trees,"
published by Carcanet Press.
Currently, Mihret is a Ph.D. in practice candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna."

Kibrom Gebremedhin

Kibrom Gebremedhin is an Artist and Art Educator. He graduated from the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, Addis Ababa University (A.A.U.) from the Department of Art Education (B.F.A.) in 2006. Currently he is working as a lecturer at the Alle School of Fine Arts and Design. Kibrom is agraduate of the masters program at A.A.U. Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, holding a Master of Fine Arts. Kibrom was a participant in the 6th Center for Contemporary Art Lagos’ Asiko International Art Programme in 2016. He has exhibited his artwork at several solo and group exhibitions between 2012 to present. Most of Kibrom’s artwork is influenced by the thought and practice of the Church and also daily social life, as observed in his environment, and reflected in different media. He uses mainly oil painting for his artwork in addition to drawing, photography, video and animation.

Dagrun Adalsteinsdottir

Dagrún Aðalsteinsdóttir (b. 1989 in Iceland) works in various mediums from performances and videos to collage drawings. Her work is an attempt to use personal or fictional scenarious and narratives to be in dialogue with how personal value versus collective value can overlap within the context of a cultural production.

Dagrún graduated in the year 2016 with M.A degree in Fine Art from LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, a partner institute with Goldsmiths University in London. Dagrún works in collaboration with artists in Europe and Asia, organizing, writing and curating projects in collaboration with contemporary art institutions as well as artist run spaces.
Dagrún has exhibited her work in Xiamen and Shanghai China, Basel Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Manila Philippines as well as taking part in various group and solo exhibitions in Iceland. In 2015 she was selected to be part of the Icelandic biennale Sequences VII curated by Alfredo Cramerotti, creative director of Mostyn. In start of 2016 she was chosen to be part of the project Night Transmissions curated by Margot Norton, associate curator at The New Museum, where video works by 38 international artists were broadcasted on the Icelandic National Broadcast Service, Television Channel RÚV.

Currently she is curating and participating in a project called Professional Amateur opening this summer in Kling and Bang Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland and later this year with ABC Klubhuis in Antwerp, Belgium.

Chiara Cartuccia is an Italian-born curator, writer and researcher based in London. She is currently engaged in long-term research around the Mediterranean as invented/inventive geography, focusing on the ramifications of practical Mediterraneanism(s) in Euro-Mediterranean contexts. 

?She is co-founder and director of the research-based curatorial platform EX NUNC. She held curatorial positions at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, and Manifesta Biennial, Palermo/Amsterdam, for which she co-curated the Manifesta 12 Planetary Garden Public Programme (2018). She curated exhibitions, discursive and performative programmes at The Showroom London, Goldsmiths College, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, MACRO, University of Paris – Diderot, Venice International Performance Art Week, ICA Sofia, TBA21, among others.

Chiara studied Art History at University of Rome, La Sapienza, and was research fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and Akademie der Künste Berlin. She holds an MA in Visual Cultures/Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and she is a PhD candidate at University of Amsterdam ASCA. She is a freelance contributor to art magazines. Her writing has been commissioned and published by ArtReview, this is tomorrow, Contemporary &, Arte e Critica, Sharjah Art Foundation and Afterall.

?She is Visiting Curator 2022/24 at UNIDEE / Fondazione-Pistoletto, where she curates the biennial programme Neither on Land nor at Sea.

Betelhem Makonnen

Betelhem Makonnen is a conceptual artist interested in the perennial questions of existence. Through her work, she investigates the relationship between elements usually perceived as contradictory using as a platform her own personal experiences in constant dialogue with the findings of her daily practice of observation, reading and wandering. She has exhibited internationally at galleries, festivals and cultural centers, most recently at the Centro Cultural do Brasil RJ (2015), Casa Daros (2014), DakArt Off Senegal (2014), and the Prix Videoformes in Clermont-Ferrand France (2014).

She was born in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia (1972), educated mostly in the United States and currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Austin, Texas.

Ezra Wube

Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) is a cross-disciplinary artist who lives and works in New York. His works encompass video, drawing, painting, and installations. His work explores experiences of mobility, the malleability of time and place, and the dialogical tensions between "here" and "there", a confluence of prior and current influences on social idealism, pluralism, and autonomy.
His exhibitions include  The 15th edition “Dak’Art Biennale”, Dakar, Senegal (2024); the 21st Contemporary Art Biennial. Sesc_Videobrasil, Brazil (2018); The 2nd edition of the Biennale d’Architecture d’Orléans, France (2019); “Gwangju Biennale”, Gwangju, South Korea (2018); Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA (2018), Art in General, Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia (2015); The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, NY (2016); Ottawa International Animation Festival, Ottawa, Canada (2011); Annecy International Animation Film Festival, Annecy (2012), France and Time Square Arts Midnight Moment, NY (2021, 2013). His residencies, commissions, and awards include Education Lab, Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University, NY, NY (2024); Michael Richards Visual Arts Award (2022); The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY (2019); The Wolfsonian–Florida International University, Miami Beach, Fl (2017); Museum of the Moving Images, Queens, NY (2014); Rema Hort Mann Foundation (2014); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY (2017); Smack Mellon Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY (2020); Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY (2019); Work Space, LMCC Residency Program, NY, NY (2013); Open Sessions Program, The Drawing Center, NY, NY (2017); The Africa Center, NY, NY (2020); the Triangle Arts Association Residency, Brooklyn, NY (2015) and The Substation Artist Residency Program, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (2011).
He is a part-time faculty at Parsons School of Design New York, NY and Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY.