Girmachew Getnet was born in 1980 and graduated from the Addis Ababa Fine Arts and Design School in 2001. Shortly thereafter he established the first art studio in his hometown called the Habesha Art Studio. His work has been shown at the Alliance Ethio-Française (Ethiopia), Goethe Institute (Addis Abada), Gebre Kristos Center (Ethiopia), Kunstverein Familie Montez (Frankfurt), Gallery BRAUCHBACHfive (Frankfurt), Atelier Frankfurt, Circle Gallery (Nairobi), Gallery DOXA (Slovakia), Lela Gallery (Ethiopia), and CFHILL Gallery (Stockholm). His solo show at the Grassi Museum, Leipzig (2007), included his short film, _Free Space _(2007).
