Etiye Dimma Poulsen
°1968, Ethiopia.

The more I try to simplify my sculptures, the more I realize how much I draw from a common heritage. In my work I seems to respond to certain unconscious rules. Whether in my female statues, evoking images of Venus from Africa, Europe or Asia, or in more recent works, like my “moon watchers”, inevitably I resonate with the past.
Almost genetically the artist continues to transmit basic visual images from our common store. I’ve always felt only part creator of my work and that nature, instinct, memory and culture do the rest.
" We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time".

T.S. Eliot


Etiyé Dimma Poulsen

Sculptor

1968 Born in Ethiopia                
1974 Adopted in Tanzania                
1975 English school in Kenya               
1982 Primary and secondary school in Denmark           
1988 Art history school in Denmark              
1991 Installs her workshop in France               
2003 Installs her workshop and lives in Belgium

Upcoming Exhibitions

2009
Centre d’art André Malraux Colmar           
Musée Théodore Deck Guebwiller
Gallery Christa’s Fine Art Kopenhagen

2010
Bedington Bargemon
Galerie Elfie Bohrer Zürich
Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris          
Galerie de l’ancienne Poste Toucy

Personal Exhibitions
2009
Galerie Genevieve Godard Lille
Willem Elias Woluwe            
Galerie Strenger Tokyo           
Bekris Gallery San Fransisco

2008
Galerie Strenger Tokyo Japan          
Joie Lassiter Gallery Charlotte USA
Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris         
Papirfabrikken Silkeborg Denmark
Parlement Européen           
Charteaux d’Ardelay Les Herbiers
WomanhoodHood Museum New Hampshire  
Worldbank Washington USA

2007
Koloniënpaleis Tervuren Belgium  
UNESCO Paris
Galerie D’Haudrecy-Knokke Belgium
Musée Maurice Denis Paris France         
Galerie Elfie Bohrer, Bonstetten Switserland
Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris
          
Wertz Contemporary Atlanta (US)

2006
Skoto Gallery New York (US)

          
Galerie Capazza Nancay France
Centre Culturel Scharpoord Knokke (Belgium)        
Gallerie Des Emibois (Switserland)

2005
Wertz contemporary gallery Atlanta (US)         
Gallery Knud Grothe Charlottenlund, Denmark
Gallery Marc Van Meensel Holland Art Fair Den Haag       
Galerie Hamlin Honfleur , France           
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris           
Lineart Gent, Belgium
Galerie 23 Amsterdam

2004
Museum of World Culture, Göteborg , Sweden        
Lille Art Fair Gallerie Hamlin
Gallerie Genevieve Godar Lille           
Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris           
St’art 2004 Galerie Hamlin Strasbourg

2003
St’art Strasbourg             
Gallery Knud Grothe Charlottenlund, Denmark
Smithsonian Museum of African Art Washington (EU)       
Galerie des Emibois, Switserland           
Galerie Hamlin Honfleur , France           
Galery MAM, Douala, Cameroun
MOBA Gallery Brussels

2002
Alliance Française, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia         
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris

2001
Gallery MAM, Douala, Cameroun          
St’art 2001 Strasbourg
October Gallery, London, Angleterre          
Artist in residence, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia         
Château des Carmes-La Flèche

2000
Biennale of Dakar             
Gallerie Hamlin Honfleur , France
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris           
Galerie Capazza Nançay, France

1999
Gallerie des Emibois, Suisse           
Maison de la Ceramique, Mulhouse, France
Galerie Genevieve Godar Lille

1998
Galerie des Emibois, Switzerland           
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris
Galerie MAM, Douala, Cameroun           
Galerie Arts Pluriel, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

1997
Bomani Gallery, San Fransisco (US)          
Afrique en Creation (Ministère de la Cooperation)
Centre Wallonie Brussels, Paris           
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris

1996
Centre Culturel, Meudon, France           
Galerie Hamlin Honfleur , France
Galerie Genevieve Godar Lille

1995
Cultural centre La Nacelle, Aubergenville, France

1989
Industrial space Dong, Kobenhavn, Danemark

Museums Collections

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (US)
Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art (US)       
Hans Bogatzke , Collection of contemerary African art-Allemagne    
Newark Museum New Jersey (US)         
Hood Museum Hanover New Hampshire (US)       
La Piscine Musée d’art Roubaix France
World bank Washington Collection

Television
                
2003 ‘double je’ Bernard Pivot
Trophées of the French language ‘Couleurs noirs’ Film of Bérengère Casanova T.V. Brussels

Film
                   
2000
‘Etiyé Dimma Poulsen’
             
2005
Femmes du Feu./ women of fire