Ayumi Rahn
Born 1980 in Munich (DE), lives and works in Berlin (DE)

Education
2008 Diploma (equivalent to MA), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, class of Amelie von Wulffen
2006–2008Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, class of Amelie von Wulffen
2001–2006Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class of Günther Förg

Awards and Grants
2025 Artist Residency, Shiro Oni Studio, Fujioka (JP)
2024 Project funding from the Berlin Senate, exhibition Ghost Train
2023 Project grant from the State of Berlin, exhibition Vibrant City
2020 Special grant from the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2008 Award for Contemporary Art of the Belvedere, Vienna (AT)

Exhibitions and Readings (selection from the past 5 years)
Solo and Duo
2025
Upcoming: Exhibition at Shiro Oni Studio, Fujioka (JP)
InterViews Issue 18 – Connected in Contradiction, release and exhibition, HilbertRaum, Berlin (DE)
2024
Ghost Train, with Frauke Boggasch, Sign Ciat, Berlin (DE)
10 Years of InterViews, exhibition and reading, New Toni, Berlin (DE)
2023
Japan and Ghosts, reading, ecclectic publishing, Berlin (DE)
GHOST, with Frauke Boggasch, Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin (DE)
Chorus of Mushrooms, with Julia Frankenberg, Kunstverein Hinterconti, Hamburg (DE)
Green Carpet, exhibition at Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Zacherlfabrik, Vienna (AT)
2021
Night Parade, with Frauke Boggasch, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin (DE)
2020 
InterViews, artist talk, Radiosalon für Alltägliches, reboot.fm, Berlin (DE)

Group
2025
Miss Read, art book fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
space_relations, public parcours, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf (DE)
Mitte | Nacht, berlin weekly, Berlin (DE)
Anonymous Drawings, Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg (DE)
Anonymous Drawings, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt (DE)
2024
Resonans, c4projects, Copenhagen (DK)
Winterschlaf, Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin (DE)
Zoologischer Garten, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin (DE)
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin (DE)
Corvidae, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin (DE)
Plant Blindness, First Thuringian Nature Conservation Day, Stadthalle Gotha (DE)
Portal I, in front of f space, Wuppertal (DE)
Miss Read, art book fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
2023
Plant Blindness, Stockwerk Projects, Weimar (DE)
Vibrant City, curated exhibition, Café Finovo & other locations, Berlin (DE)
Vibrant Matter, reading, as part of fishing for future, Berlin (DE)
Miss Read, art book fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
super BOOKS, art book fair, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
2022 
Volumes, art book fair, Helmhaus, Zurich (CH)
Miss Read, art book fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
super BOOKS, art book fair, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)
2021 
super BOOKS, art book fair, Haus der Kunst, Munich (DE)

Publications
Since 2014 InterViews artist zine, Issues #1–#18
2024Audio piece Die Erschöpften, text contribution for Philipp Modersohn
2023Hope. A Politics of Healing, text for Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Vienna (AT)
   Various texts on 99prozenturban.de (2021–2023)
2022Audio piece Bad Land Gut, text contribution for Philipp Modersohn
2021Sound of the City, text on Tamina Amadyar, Galerie Meyer Riegger

Collections
Salon für Kunstbuch, Vienna (AT)
AAP Archive Artists Publications, Munich (DE)
Self-publishing archive, broken dimanche press, Berlin (DE)
Volumes Archive, Zurich (CH)
Collection of the bmukk, Austria