✨In 2023, as part of NOTOPIA an exhibition by @raulwalch , @perera_elsewhere produced the soundtrack for his film ‘Squatting the Ruins of Utopia’.
🪡The closing track of her new album JUST WANNA LIVE SOME (released in October 2025) is titled One Day and is and evolved version of this soundtrack.
Award winning electronic music producer, DJ, and multi-instrumentalist Sasha Perera, also known as
👉Perera Elsewhere, seamlessly integrates experimental rap, psychedelic grime, footwork and even elements of folk, jazz or ambient into the distinctive avant pop sound for which she has become known.
👉The visual artist Raul Walch works across sculpture, textiles, installation, and participatory formats, often engaging with public space. His practice explores ecological, social, and collaborative processes through large scale textile interventions, flags, sails, and wind driven structures.
⛓️💥Both based in Berlin, Walch and Perera’s paths have crossed many times. While Walch focuses on visual art and a practice that brings together artists from many different disciplines, their collaboration reflects a shared interest in cross disciplinary exchange.
Video, loop, 11’10” min.
Music by Perera Elsewhere
Editing by Matthias Maercks
Exhibited at @galerie_eigenart
#pereraelsewhere #raulwalch #notopia #utopia
✨Art Remains Many✨
✍️ my graphic contribution to the Festival of Future Nows, bringing together more than 100 artists at the @neuenationalgalerie , created at a time of shrinking funding for art and culture.
#wirsindvielejedereinzelnevonuns #festivaloffuturenows #kunstbleibtviele #nng #2025 #berlin #dievielen ✨
🐦⬛For Those Who Danced the Skies🌫️
👉Impressions from the filming of a research project on the transformation of agricultural structures in the Campania landscape in Italy.
The shift from traditional agriculture to more mechanised, technologised, and specialised forms of production is leading to a new phase of agro-industrialisation. This process not only alters the appearance of the landscape but also intensifies the exploitation of natural resources and increases dependence on petrochemical materials. Filmed from a bird’s-eye perspective, the images draw a connection between the habitat of birds and that of agriculture, which increasingly leaves no room for life within an artificial environment devoid of flora and fauna.
Complementing the filmic reflection on the site in Campania, a mobile installation entitled For Those Who Danced the Skies was created at the Villa Romana, Florence. @villaromanaflorenz
Found materials were assembled into a large-scale mobile installation that rotates, glides, and floats through the courtyard of light. Polymeric and agrotextile materials from agriculture, commonly used for soil coverage, climate regulation, or crop optimisation, were reworked and staged in a new context.
#transformation #landscape #italy #agriculture #videoart #villaromanafirenze #birdseyeview #kite #campania
🌬️Dressing the Wind (Neue Nationalgalerie), 2025
👉At the Festival of Future Nows in Berlin organized, curated and programmed by Christina Werner @cwer0080 Ricarda Bergmann @ricarda_bergmann Nikola Richolt @niki_ri Sophie Uebach @sophieuebach Lisa Botti @lisa_botti_ and initiated by @studioolafureliasson and @klausbiesenbach
👉Two colourful flags flutter in the wind in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie. Their colours and patterns overlap, shimmering in the sunlight and merging into a transitory composition. This site-specific installation, Dressing the Wind, is part of a series of works by Raul Walch. The artist is developing a new, poetic formal language for the medium of flags, which normally serve as national symbols and spark political debates. Transcending regional styles, Walch foregrounds global interconnection, thereby creating a space to reflect on how we relate to these symbols, their meanings and traditions.
What would happen if we dispensed with national symbols? What would become of the borders they demarcate, geographically and politically? How would our understanding of national identity change, and what new forms of belonging would arise?
#festivaloffuturenows #berlin #neuenationalgalerie #2025 #raulwalch #dressingthewind ✨✨
During his fellowship at @villaromanaflorenz , artist @raulwalch developed part of his research at Lottozero’s textile laboratory, working with screen printing and digital jacquard weaving.
We are glad to share some of the works he produced, presented this year in the solo exhibition “Agree to Disagree” at @galerie_eigenart . These textile works engage with Florence and Prato as historically and politically entangled sites of production, exploring textiles as carriers of globalised histories through an interplay of industrial patterns, handcrafted interventions, and fragmented slogans.
Raul Walch is a Berlin-based visual artist whose practice spans sculpture, installation, performance, video, and participatory work, driven by political and ecological engagement. He often creates sails, mobiles, and flags through collaborative and site-responsive processes, using textiles and other materials to activate space and social dialogue.
Photos by Rosa Merk
#raulwalch #villaromanaflorenz #lottozerotextilelaboratories #silkscreenprinting #digitaljacquardweaving #patterns #pratotextiledistrict #massproduction #craftsmanship #agreetodisagree #text #slogans #clouds
🌬️Who Owns the Wind?
Sea Art Festival, 2025
Busan Biennale, South Korea
bamboo, printed fabric, stainless steel
920 × 710 × 725 cm
🐦⬛Located on Dadaepo Beach in Busan, on a long stretch of sand directly at the shoreline, the textile pavilion Who Owns the Wind? creates a space where visitors can sense the wind, follow its movements, and feel the imagined presence of birds. It functions as an open workshop and a shared meeting place, inviting people to interact through kite flying and by observing the surrounding birdlife. The pavilion becomes a gentle environment for exchange, awareness, and playful engagement with the elements.
🐦⬛Created for the Sea Art Festival 2025, which focuses on the subtle exchanges and shifting relationships between land and sea, the pavilion responds to this meeting of elements. The festival highlights how natural forces like wind, waves, and tides constantly move, reshape boundaries, and create ever-changing conditions. In this context, the pavilion invites visitors to experience air as an active presence and to attune themselves to movements that often remain unnoticed. Who Owns the Wind? offers a place to reflect on our relationship to these dynamic processes and on how shared spaces can open new forms of attention, connection, and belonging.
#busanbiennale #seaartfestival #2025 #raulwalch #busan #pavilion #windpavilion #dadepobeach #korea
🌬️Busan Heat Flags
Sea Art Festival 2025
@busanbiennale , South Korea
800 x 2550 cm
Curated by @keumhwa_kim and @beyond_tropes
👉 Installed on the chimney of a former waste-incineration plant, the oversized “Heat Flag” proposes a new way of rendering climate warnings visible. This monumental textile sculpture acts as a signal for intensifying heat waves and the consequences of global warming. Drawing inspiration from the language of meteorological alert systems and public health advisories, it translates their logic into a spatial and poetic gesture.
Heat Flags Busan is based on modeled average temperatures in Busan from 2000 to 2030. A color gradient from blue to red illustrates the steady rise in temperatures over time. As both metaphor and signal, the flag points to the pressing need to adapt to extreme environmental conditions and encourages collective awareness and action. Positioned on a former waste-processing site, it recalls the systemic causes of the climate crisis while simultaneously hinting at possibilities for change and solidarity.
The work was presented as part of the Sea Art Festival 2025 in Busan, an exhibition that unfolds along the city’s waterfront and beaches. Bringing together artists from around the world, the festival explores coastal ecologies, public space, and shifting environmental conditions. Within this context, Heat Flags Busan served as both landmark and alert, anchoring the festival’s dialogue on vulnerability, resilience, and our shared responsibility toward a warming world.
#busan #seaartfestival #busanbiennale #raulwalch #heatflags #2025 #textileinstallation
✨Moving Together in Time, 2025
👉Performance at the Festival of Future Nows in Berlin organised, curated and programmed by Christina Werner @cwer0080 Ricarda Bergmann @ricarda_bergmann Nikola Richolt @niki_ri Sophie Uebach @sophieuebach Lisa Botti @lisa_botti_ and initiated by @studioolafureliasson and @klausbiesenbach
👉The performance piece Moving Together in Time was created in collaboration with the @gambit.dcrew , who use the outdoor area of the @neuenationalgalerie for their dance rehearsals.
The first part of the piece was realised as part of the exhibition Dislocations on the Spot at @kunstraummitte , curated by @natalie.keppler and @agnieszka_muriel__ .
The work focuses on processes of urban transformation and on the question of how urban spaces can be appropriated and reshaped. Who owns the city? Who is allowed to shape it, who is invited to use it, and who gets to make decisions about public space? Together with young people from Berlin, we developed costumes and short choreographies that relate to sites in the former eastern and western parts of the city.
Thanks to @lisavanheyden and @frznte
Special thanks to the Gambit Crew!
📸 Photos by @rosa_merk
#raulwalch #festivaloffuturenows #neuenationalgalerie #berlin #2025 #performance #gambitcrew
🌬️Dressing the Wind (Neue Nationalgalerie), 2025
👉At the Festival of Future Nows in Berlin organized, curated and programmed by Christina Werner @cwer0080 Ricarda Bergmann @ricarda_bergmann Nikola Richolt @niki_ri Sophie Uebach @sophieuebach Lisa Botti @lisa_botti_ and initiated by @studioolafureliasson and @klausbiesenbach
👉Two colourful flags flutter in the wind in front of the Neue Nationalgalerie. Their colours and patterns overlap, shimmering in the sunlight and merging into a transitory composition. This site-specific installation, Dressing the Wind, is part of a series of works by Raul Walch. The artist is developing a new, poetic formal language for the medium of flags, which normally serve as national symbols and spark political debates. Transcending regional styles, Walch foregrounds global interconnection, thereby creating a space to reflect on how we relate to these symbols, their meanings and traditions.
What would happen if we dispensed with national symbols? What would become of the borders they demarcate, geographically and politically? How would our understanding of national identity change, and what new forms of belonging would arise?
📸 Photos by @rosa_merk
#festivaloffuturenows #berlin #neuenationalgalerie #2025 #raulwalch #dressingthewind ✨✨
