Born 1990 in Munich. Lives and works in Munich. Studied sculpture in Munich and at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (Stefan Huber & Alexandra Bircken class). Graduates as a master student in 2019.
www.paulvalentin.de
Exhibitions: Doxa, GiG x Lothringer 13 Studio, Munich, LOST ARC, Haus der Kunst, Munich 2023 | GiG at Lothringer Studio, Munich, Another Room @park, Britta Rettberg, Munich, Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, with Moritz Riesenbeck, Munich, A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining, Rosa Stern Space, Munich 2022 | VIDEODOX Galerie der Künstler, Munich 2021 | Lamb Shift, Maximiliansforum, Munich, Air Into Solid, Karl & Faber, Munich 2020
Solo Shows
LOST ARC., Haus der Kunst, Munich | 2023, Doxa, GiG x Lothringer 13 Studio | Another Room, @park, Britta Rettberg, 2022 | Lost Weekend Meets Young Art, with Moritz Riesenbeck, 2022 | A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining, Rosa Stern Space, 2022 | Lamb Shift, Maximiliansforum, Munich 2021 | Air Into Solid, Karl & Faber, Munich, 2021|Nichts, Teufelsberg, Institut für Alles Mögliche, Berlin, 2021| Blind Carbon Copy, with Kalas Liebfried, Akademie Galerie, Munich, DE
Group exhibitions (selection)
2022
Burg Ranfels, Zenting, DE (Upcoming)
Der Bau. Hommage an Kafka, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, DE
O animal humano e o seu planeta, Goethe Institute Maputo, MOZ
Mana II, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, DE
Scholarship for fine arts of the City of Munich, HG2, Munich, DE
2021
Kata Komb, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Mana, Verpackerei, Görisried, DE
Kunstpreis Deutschland, Galerie Depelmann, Langenhagen (Hannover), DE Videodox, 4. Video art Biennale, BBK, Munich, DE
V2, GalerieFoe , Munich, DE
THE WORLD:REGLITTERIZED, Haus der Kunst, Munich, DE
Around the block (curated by Christian Ganzenberg), Luitpoldblock, Munich, DE 2020
Verzeichnet, Der Mixer, Frankfurt am Main, DE
Drawing Restricted, Rosa Stern, Munich, DE
2019
Karl & Faber Art Prize Exhibition, Karl & Faber, Munich, DE
Nichts, diploma exhibition, Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, DE
TACKER, Galerie der Künstler*innen, Munich, D
A Piano Plays in Another Room and It’s Raining
2022 | 16:14 min
Video, Sound | English
B+Animation: Paul Valentin
In “A Piano Plays In Another Room And It’s Raining” (2022), Paul Valentin takes us into a melancholic fugue of computer-generated spaces that overwhelm us with their abundance of references to film, painting and computer games as well as the carefully designed “digital objects” and initially leave us speechless.
and initially leave us speechless. The aesthetics of this work, which oscillates between cinematic philosophy and spatial installation, refers to the design of so-called “liminal” spaces – transit spaces – which evoke feelings of eeriness, nostalgia and anxiety in us.
nostalgia and anxiety. Each scene demands that we adopt different perspectives, jump between worlds and “realities”, abandon projections and allow for new possibilities. Ultimately, we understand that here we are seeing our seeing itself, contemplating the making of meaning and pursuing the philosophical search for the nature of the world.
(Christian Ganzenberg, Various Others)