Raul WALCH
Stipends/Grants/Awards
2021 Work stipend, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn 2020 Residency at Paradise Air, Tokyo
Project Funding, Kreativfonds, Bauhaus University Weimar
2019 Travel stipend, Hessische Kulturstiftung, Wiesbaden Project funding, Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Berlin
2018 Project funding, Goethe Institut Irak
Residency with andcompany&Co, Mouson Turm, Frankfurt/Main Presentation funding, Berliner Senat
2017 Residency, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania
2016 IBB Preis für Fotografie, initiated by Investitionsbank Berlin and Karl Hofer Gesellschaft
Honorable Mention, Berlin Art Prize
2015 Work and research stipend, Berlin Senate Creator Residency Program, Tokyo Wonder Site IFA Art Funding, Artists’ Contacts
2014 Cultural Project Funding, Berlin Senate
Global Artist Residency Program for Ethiopia, Berlin Senate 2013 Research Residency, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2012/13 Artist Grant, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin
1980 Born in Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Education 2008 - 2012
Fine Art, Klasse Olafur Eliasson, UdK
2005 - 2008
Sculpture, Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee
2001 - 2004
Sociology and Latin American studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2021 unfollow, Eigen + Art, Berlin (solo)
2020 Ressentiment/Risentimento, Kunst Merano Arte, Meran, Italy Tape Modern #27, Berlin
Intersection Tamba, Centre Culturel Régional, Tambacounda, Senegal
suspense, Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, Tokyo Die Balkone, Berlin
Zero Waste, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
bis hierher und nicht weiter, Kunstverein Tiergarten/Galerie Nord, Berlin
Flagge Zeigen, Infected Landscapes, Brandenburg, Germany Art Biesenthal, Brandenburg, Germany
Fight-Klub – Kunst Gegen Rechts, Botschaft Berlin / Uferhallen, Berlin Owned by Others, Museumsinsel, Berlin
2019 The Sceptical Chemist, Eigen + Art Lab, Berlin (solo)
Active Texture – between Text and Textile, XC.HuA Gallery, Berlin Auf der Grenze, Stiftung St.Matthäus, Kulturforum Berlin (solo) One Night Stand, Horse & Pony Project Space, Berlin
Alarmstufe Rot, Monologfestival, Theater Discounter 2018 Freiheit zur Freiheit, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
Digesture, Very Project Space, Berlin
Miete Strom Instagram, Walch&Winkler, Berlin Verortung, Parallel Vienna, Wien
Thresholds. Limits of Space, BNKR, München
Intersections of Commen Space and Time, Space One, Seoul Vol.2, Eigen + Art, Berlin
Brauchen Wir Einen Linken Populismus?, Acud Galerie, Berlin
Bait Tarkib, Baghdad, Iraq
Flying Semaphores & Building Bridges, Floating University Berlin Night Shift, Bar Babette, Berlin
Muster Raum, Frontviews, Bauakademie Berlin Mutterzunge, Babylon Mitte, Berlin
Perfect Match, Schaufenster Berlin
Umordnung, Berliner Philharmoniker, Berliner Philharmonie 2017 The Event of a Thread, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden
Festival of Future Nows, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Odyssey, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Möhnesee
Blickachsen Skulpturen Biennale, Bad Homburg Marking Triangles, Japanische Kulturstiftung, Köln Social Geometrism, Kask, Berlin
7 trans-phonies, Tokyo Wondersite Shibuya, Tokyo 2016 Berlin Art Prize, Kühlhaus, Berlin
IBB - Preis für Photographie, Karl Hofer Gesellschaft, Berlin
Der Enkeltrick in der Abstraktion, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin
Azimut, Lichthaus, Arnsberg (solo) Britzenale, Berlin-Neukölln
Hybrid Modus, Skulptur Bredelar, Bredelar
From Science To Fiction, Verein für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich 2te 11te Interventionale, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin 2015 Fabrics&Space, Arai Associates, Tokyo (solo)
Open Studio, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo Shibuya Eggs, City Hall Shibuya, Tokyo
Cinema Lada, Modern Art Museum, Addis Ababa Opening on the Foam, Schloss Sacrow, Potsdam Schlüssel zur Stadt, Projektraum Leipzigerstr., Berlin 2014 Festival of Future Nows, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Ideals – On Architecture, Power and Politics, Aedes, Berlin Tomorror’s Island, Momoshima Art Base, Hiroshima Inundumundumherum, Kunstverein Arnsberg
Tokyo Story 2014, Tokyo Wonder Site, Japan
Revisiting Fukushima, Japan Syndrome at HAU, Berlin Head Sculptures, DeGesa Gallery, Addis Ababa (solo)
Walk-In-Progress, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China Love Bazon Hate Brock, Kreuzberg Pavillon
2013 Molding Versions Into Reality, Grey Sheep, Berlin Dem Wahren Schönen Guten, Im Ersten, Wien Catching a Jellyfish, hpgrp gallery, Tokyo Entering Space, Kunsthalle m3, Berlin Utopia, SenatsReserveSpeicher, Berlin
100 Ideas on Tomorror’s Island, Momoshima, Hiroshima Pop up Addis, Addis Ababa
Accidental Accomplishment, Institut für Raumexperimente 2012 Addis Foto Fest, Addis Abeba
Jan Meda, Institute für Raumexperimente, Ethiopia Chereka Kushina, Asni Gallery, Addis Ababa
West Southwest, Grey Sheep, Berlin (solo) Translation Acts, The Great World‘s Fair 2012, Berlin
Kinonik, Video Screening, Berlin
Glasauge, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin
Long Night of Transformation, Haus am Lützowplatz with Das Numen, Berlin
2011 Berlin 2000-2011: Playing Among the Ruins, Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokio
Testing New Stages, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin Street Fountain, Kunstverein Arnsberg
Mapping Everything, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin De Duin (OPA), De Wereld van Witte de With straat Festival,
Rotterdam
Puplic Abstraction, Private Construction, Kunstverein Arnsberg Wien Ruft 0049, Die Ausstellungsstrasse, Wien
100° Berlin 2011, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin Island Approach, Geist III, Berlin
Without Destination, Reykjavik Art Museum, Island 2010 Provinz, Kunstverein Lindau
Stampede, The Forgotten Bar/Galerie im Regierungsviertel, Berlin Let´s Start to Implement Little Errors, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin
Minima Stabilika, O33, Berlin
Die Letzten Grenzen Fallen, Haus Am Lützowplatz with Fabian Knecht, Berlin
Integrative Kunstausstellung, Schechinger Fine Arts pres. at 033, Berlin
2009 Gestüm, Galerie Holzburg, Kassel (solo) Inconstruction IV, Art Biesenthal
Ullis Lustige Wanderausstellung, Kunstraum Innsbruck Outside, Tape Modern, Berlin
Ich Freu Mich, O33, Berlin Black, Tape Modern, Berlin 2008 Dochgogh, KSb, Berlin (solo)
Time to Say Goodbye, Berliner Kunstsalon Inconstruction III, Art Biesenthal
Lectures/Workshops/Performances
2020 Cook!,Workshops & Interventions, Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo
Festival de l’Union, Screening, Tambacounda, Senegal Wandersalon, Artist Talk, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum
Nachtprojektionen, mit Die Vielen zu Christoph Schlingensief. Die Grazer Aktion – Erinnerungen,
Kontext, Gegenwart, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
Loop Table Performance, Galerie Nord | Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin
Floatation Zoo Island, Workshop at Kids University, Floating University, Berlin
Monuments for Whom?, Museuem Tropicana, Berlin 2019 Textile Intervention Workshop, Kollisionen, Udk, Berlin
Borders and Territories: Identity in Place, Symposium at ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Textile Pavillon Workshop, Montagscafé, Staatsschauspiel, Dresden Who owns the city?, Workshop, Making Futures School, Haus der Statistik, Berlin
Art in the public sphere in times of political resentment, Lecture, BAI – Berlin Art Institute, Berlin
Kultur in nervösen Zeiten – Themenabend mit Die Vielen, Panel discussion, Kommunale Gallerien
Glänzender Protest/Aktionen der Vielen, mit Philine Rinnert, Ratschlag der Vielen, Neues Museum Nürnberg
Community?, Artist Talk, UdK, Berlin
Flying Semaphores & Textile Experimentes, Artist Talk, Freie Universität Bozen, Italien
2018 Flying Hellerau, Hellerau – Europäisches Zentrum der Künste, Dresden
Fragmentation of Common Space, Goethe Institut & Space One, Seoul
Flying Semaphores workshop, Floating University, Berlin Video workshop, Bait Tarkib, Bagdad
Responsive design workshop, EiABC, Addis Ababa University 2017 Along Lines, Inter-format Symposium, Nida Art Colony
Sprachen der Freiheit, Kunstraum Dresden in cooperation with Goethe Institute
2016 Performance “Unity“, The UN Global Goals World Cup, New York 2015 Performance Workshop, Foreign Affairs Festival 2015, Berlin
Going Public, Video workshop, AAU Alle school of fine art & design, Addis Ababa
Stage Lighting Workshop, Vorschlag:Hammer Performance Collective, Ballhaus Ost
2014 Performance Workshop, Foreign Affairs Festival 2014, Berlin Inside Outside, Video Workshop, AAU Alle school of fine art &
design
Visiting Teacher, Aarhus Kunstskole
2012 Shelter Walk, Institut für Raumexperimente, Performance mit Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Addis Ababa
Artist Exchange Program, Co-organizing an artist residency program with the
Institute für Raumexperimente in Addis Ababa
Kinonik: Film Program at The Great World‘s Fair, Berlin Furniture Workshop with Solomon Tsegaye, Addis Ababa 2011 Caryatid Walk, Life is Space IV, Studio Eliasson, Berlin
2010 Space Activism Marathon, Institut für Raumexperimente, Berlin