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Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew

Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew

Full name Berhanu Ashagrie Deribew
Education attended MA, Fine Arts, Utrecht Graduate School of the Arts, the Netherlands, 2010BA, Visual Communication, Addis Ababa University / School of Fine arts and Design, Addis Ababa, 2005
Academic rank Lecturer (2010)
Working for AAU Since 2005
Administrative positions held   Head, Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, 2010 to DateAssistant Director, Alle School of Fine Arts and Design, 2010 – 2012
 Awards,

Recognitions, memberships
  • Gold Medal for being an outstanding student of the year, 2005
  • Jury member of Fana Wogi, annual open call art competition for emerging Ethiopian artists
  • Founder member of Ethiopian Artists and Designers Association
  • Member of Recreating the Battle Field Scene of Adwa (African Victory) on Solloda Mountain
  • Member of a Regional Jury for the Ethiopian Millennium Art Competition in Bahir Dar
Community Services
  • Facilitator for the annual community service activities of the Art Education Department
  • A Hope Ethiopia Children Village (Giving an Art Therapy to children living with HIV / AIDS)
  • Artists for Charity (Participating in capacity building activities)
 Address
Campus: Alle School of Fine Arts and Design
Building: New Studio and Office Building
Floor number: 3rd
Office room no.: Director’s office
Office tel.: +251 111 232832
Mobile: +251 911 234891 or +251 911 664173
University email ID: berhanu.ashgrie@aau.edu.et
Alternative email ID: berhanuashagrie@yahoo.com
Research interest Artistic research activities on various societal realities which come along with the rapidly changing landscape in our contemporary life; generating creative possibilities to better understand the pure forms of our contemporary life;  alternative creative possibilities to mediate and maintain human relationships with various contemporary issues, with regard to living experiences in the here-and-now moments of the present towards the becoming
Publications and /or Exhibitions Various Exhibitions inside and outside the country, some of which are:

  • The Enigma of the New & the Modern, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2013
  • Muted Distortions, Metamatic:taf, Athens, Greece, 2012
  • Offside Effect, 1st Tbilisi Triennial, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2012
  • Fana Wogi, Modern Art Museum (GKDC), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2011
  • Collective individualism, Expodium, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010
  • Open Studio, SWK, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010
  • Catching up, MaHKU, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 2010
  • Greener, UNESCO hall, Paris, France, 2009