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DIMMA POULSEN Etiyé, sculpture, permanent artist of Galerie Capazza since 1996

From her African childhood, she keeps images of villages, sunsets and « lengthening silhouettes », a mix of images from Ethiopia - left at the age of 6 - Tanzania and Kenya where she lived until the age of 14 with her Danish family of adoption, before going to Denmark. When she arrives in France, eight years later, Etiyé discovers African art in Paris at the Museum of African and Oceanian Arts and at the Dapper Museum. If she agrees that the design of her sculptures may be inspired by “primitive art”, it is from Africa and Oceania, among others the aboriginal arts.

« My work has bonds with some African arts, but at the same time, it doesn’t mean anything. Slim shapes have always talked to me, they may be echoes to some childhood images, but you cannot link this work of form research to a culture or another. It is true that the cracked surface of my sculptures is closed to what you can find on the banco houses in Africa, the clay, dried and cracked by the sun, but it’s not a reason to call me African artist, it doesn’t mean anything!”

Rich of many lives, Etiyé Dimma Poulsen doesn’t want to be limited by a part of her life bond to an origin, a nationality or a function:

“Some wants to see me as Danish, others Ethiopian, others sculptor or even others as a ceramist, the panel is large, I have several families and each one corresponds to what I am.”

Biography

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

Museums Collections

Musée national de céramique-Sèvres, France

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, USA

Smithsonian, National Museum of African Art, USA

Hans Bogatzke , Collection of contemporary African art, Germany

Newark Museum, New Jersey, USA

Hood Museum Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

La Piscine, Musée d’art, Roubaix, France

World bank, Washington Collection, USA

Musée Théodore Deck, Guebwiller, France

Exhibition selection

2021 Enfances, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France
Galerie Florence B., Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, France

2020 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
Le torse d’une femme à la pureté d’un vase, grands courbes simples d’un fruit désiré, Parcours d’art contemporain autour d’Auguste Rodin, 1 exhibition 5 locations, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

2019 A Touch Of Gold, Leonhard's Gallery
L'Arbre c'est le temps rendu visible, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2018 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris
Miroir des sentiments, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2017 Leonhard’s Fine Art Gallery Antwerpen
Il est grand temps de rallumer les étoiles, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2016 Galerie GG. Bohrer Bonstetten Zürich
Vénus et Vulcain, Galerie Capazza Nançay
Galerie Claudine Legrand Paris

2015 Salle du Cercle, Seillans
Galerie Bourreau Ravier, Noirmoutiers
Abbaye de Pontigny

2014 Galerie Beddington, Bargemon, France
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
Leonard’s Gallery, Antwerpen, Belgium

2013 Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
Galerie GG.Bohrer Bonstetten, Zürich Switzerland

2012 Capazza, Nancay France

2011 Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
Galerie Terra Viva, Saint-Quentin la Poterie, France

2010 Galerie GG. Bohrer Bonstetten, Zürich, Switzerland
Galerie Beddington, Bargemon, France
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France
Galerie de l’ancienne Poste, Toucy, France
Goetingen Gallerie Rosenhauer, Germany

2009 Centre d’art André Malraux, Colmar, France
Musée Théodore Deck, Guebwiller, France
Gallery Christa’s Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galerie Genevieve Godard, Lille, France
Willem Elias Woluwe, Belgium
Galerie Strenger, Tokyo, Japan
Bekris Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2008 Galerie Strenger, Tokyo Japan
Joie Lassiter Gallery, Charlotte, USA
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris
Papirfabrikken Silkeborg, Denmark
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium
Château d’Ardelay, Les Herbiers, France
Womanhood Hood Museum, New Hampshire, USA
Worldbank Washington, USA

2007 Koloniënpaleis, Tervuren, Belgium
UNESCO Paris, France
Galerie D’Haudrecy, Knokke, Belgium
Musée Maurice Denis, Paris, France
Galerie Elfie Bohrer, Bonstetten Switzerland
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris , France
Wertz Contemporary Atlanta, USA

2006 Skoto Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Capazza, Nancay , France
Centre Culturel Scharpoord, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie des Emibois, Switzerland

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

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

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

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

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

2000 Biennale of Dakar, Senegal
Gallerie Hamlin, Honfleur, France
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Pari, France s
Galerie Capazza, Nançay, France

1999 Galerie des Emibois, Switzerland
Maison de la Céramique, Mulhouse, France
Galerie Genevieve Godar, Lille, France

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

1997 Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Afrique in creation, Minister of cooperation
Centre Wallonie Brussels, Paris, France
Galerie Claudine Legrand, Paris, France

1996 Cultural Center of Meudon, France
Galerie Hamlin Honfleur, France
Galerie Genevieve Godar, Lille, France

1995 Centre culturel La Nacelle, Aubergenville, France

1989 Industrial space Dong, Kobenhavn, Denmark