Addis Fine Art

In 2016, Rakeb Sile and Mesai Haileleul co-founded Addis Fine Art, creating the first white-cube gallery space for modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia. Described as one of the “Most Important Young Galleries in the World” (Artsy 2019), the gallery has since then grown to become one of the leading galleries in Africa, establishing a prominent international platform for artists from the Horn of Africa.

In October 2021, the gallery will move into expanded premises in London, opening a two-storey gallery space in the heart of Fitzrovia. The London gallery programme will encapsulate Addis Fine Art’s commitment to heightened international exposure for, and critical reappraisal of, African art on the world stage. The gallery’s Addis Ababa space will continue to be an incubator for emerging talent, facilitating critical engagement within the local market and encouraging the growth and development of the artworld ecosystem on the continent. The gallery will also serve as a space for artists from the diaspora to return to the continent and share and develop their practice.

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Current Exhibitions

• Addis Fine ArtLondon West End

  

  Eyasu Telayneh: Private Reputation Of Colours

  7 Sep - 30 Sep 2023

  21 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DD

  Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat noon-6pm

  “Eyasu’s abstract works draw on his fascination with geometry, colour, and physics. Blending structural and fluid forms, his works are responses to inner visualisations of the world around him”
• Addis Fine ArtLondon West End

  

  Noah Beyene: Head First

  7 Sep - 30 Sep 2023

  21 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8DD

  Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat noon-6pm

  Beyene’s debut exhibition figurative paintings in constant and conscious dialogue with the history of image-making

Spaces

Archived Exhibitions