Konjit
Seyoum was born in 1963 and raised in Ethiopia. She is a curator,
gallerist, writer, educator and artists and studied at the University
of Trieste in Italy where she graduated in Translation (she speaks
Amharic, English, French, Italian and Croatian) In 1996 she opened
Asni Gallery to promote contemporary Ethiopian art and create a
venue for young and established artists to exhibit their works.
Seyoum has been curating between five and six major exhibitions
a year that involved paintings, sculptures, photography and installations.
She has been interested in experimental approaches and in particular
how contemporary Ethiopian art relates to worldwide artistic traditions.
This year she travelled to Senegal to visit the Dak'Art Biennale
of contemporary African art and to Germany to see the eleventh
Documenta. She has been experimenting with installations and has
been lately mainly working on the topic of AIDS. Her most recent
project (installation) is to create a visual commentary on the
development of Ethiopian "modern Art". This project will relate
to the paper she presented on the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School
and the Development of Ethiopian Art at the Sixth International
Conference of Ethiopian Art held in Addis Ababa in November, 2002.
Ms. Seyoum was recommended by Bekele Mekonnen |