Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
EDUCATION
2004
BFA University of Addis Ababa
2011
MFA at the Universität der Künste Berlin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
don’t talk, Bode, Berlin, DE
2022
Tegene Kunbi, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, DE
Tegene Kunbi, Solo Show, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, IT
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE
2020
Abstract//Figures, ArtGallé Amy Sow, Nouakchott, Mauritania (with Saleh Lo) Studio, MR Berlin, Berghain (with Boros foundation), Berlin, DE
2019
Re:public, Circle Art Gallery, Nairobi, KE
2017
Tegene Kunbi and Werner Pokorny, Galerie Gerken, Berlin, DE
2014
Tegene Kunbi, Galerie Gerken, Berlin, DE
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
Dak’Art Biennale, Dakar, SN
2021
Heilandskirche Moabit, Berlin, DE
From Modern to Contemporary, CF HILL (with Addis Fine Art), Stockholm, SE
Here History Began, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, DE
Materials and Things, Exit Frame Collective, Roubaix, FR
2020
Summer Selections, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, US
Planet B, BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt, Berlin, DE
2019
PlanetArt, Kühlhaus, Berlin, Germany
Material Color, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, US
2018
Contemporary Young Artists, Berlin, DE
Dak’Art Biennale (subsection, curator Bonaventue Soh Bejeng Ndikung)
Senegal; Light Years, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, US
2015
Tegene Kunbi and Alexander Bobkin, Alicia Winters Galería, Arnhem, NL
Danjerus Cable, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, US
2014
Melting Pot, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, US
AWARDS
2022
Shortlist Norval African Art Prize
Léopold Sédar Senghor prize from the President of the Republic as part of participation in the Dakar Biennale