Abel Assefa

12 December 2024,18:00 CET (registration see below)

Since the official opening of Yimtubezina Museum in December 2022, it has managed to present 9 exhibitions, which six of them were temporary and the other from its permanent museum collections. The museum with a mission to creat a platform  for cross cultural exchange and inter generational dialogue, its temporary exhibitions are themed on a specific topics that could possibly valorize, document and promote memories and urban cultures as well as history and cultural heritages of Ethiopia. The presentation focuses and discusses the process for establishment of the Museum on a historical house built in 1900 for a residential use by W/ro Yimtubezinash Habte. While the presentation highlights the exhibitions that have been presented so far It also discuss how its temporary exhibitions are initiated and implemented by providing summary for selected exhibition ideas. Through collaboration with different institutions; providing platform for Artists’s and collectors and making awareness of various topics; this presentation highlights the process of curatorial execution of temporary exhibitions process from its inception to execution.

Abel Assefa is Director and Chief curator at Yimtubezina Museum and Cultural Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.  He also participates in the MuseumsLab 2024 program in Berlin. He holds a BSc in Heritage Conservation from Mekele University and an MA in Archeology and Heritage Management from Addis Ababa University.

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