Ayumi Rahn (b. 1980, Munich) is an artist based in Berlin. She studied Fine Arts in Munich with Günther Förg and in Vienna with Amelie von Wulffen. Her practice moves between painting, drawing, text and installation, often combining image and narrative. She explores memory, transgenerational experience and cultural connections. Since 2014, she has published the artist zine InterViews as a collaborative project.
CV
Education
2008
Diploma (equivalent to MA), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, class of Amelie von Wulffen
2006–2008
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, class of Amelie von Wulffen
2001–2006
Academy of Fine Arts Munich, class of Günther Förg
Residencies
2025
Shiro Oni, Fujioka, Japan – community-based residency focused on intercultural exchange
space_relations, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2024
Resonans, workshop residency, c4 projects, Copenhagen / Vienna, Denmark / Austria
2023
Plant Blindness, Stockwerk Projects, Weimar, Germany
Awards and Grants
2024 Project grant, Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin
2023 Project grant, State of Berlin (Vibrant City)
2020 Special grant, Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
2008 Contemporary Art Prize, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
Selected Projects
2025
Motherlands (picture scroll / emakimono, 70 × 3000 cm) – transgenerational narrative combining painting, text, memory and myth
2025–
Searching for Sadako, research-based project on family history and Hiroshima
Since 2014
InterViews – editor and curator of an independent artist zine and collaborative publishing project (issues #1–#18)
Since 2025
Workshop “Contradictions”, in collaboration with Yves Mettler, based on InterViews issue #18
2026
Steinn | 石 – dialogical exhibition and artist book in collaboration with Dana Engfer
2026–
Artists Read at b_books – curatorial project in collaboration with Mirja Reuter, b_books, Berlin
Selected Exhibitions (last 5 years)
Solo and Duo Exhibitions
2025
InterViews #18 – Connected in Contradiction, release and exhibition, HilbertRaum, Berlin, Germany
Contradictions, with Yves Mettler, workshop and exhibition, Kunsthalle Below, Berlin, Germany
2024
Ghost Train, with Frauke Boggasch, Sign Ciat, Berlin, Germany
10 Years of InterViews, exhibition and reading, New Toni, Berlin, Germany
2023
Japan and Ghosts, reading with Frauke Boggasch, ecclectic publishing, Berlin, Germany
GHOST, with Frauke Boggasch, Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin, Germany
Chorus of Mushrooms, with Julia Frankenberg, Kunstverein Hinterconti, Hamburg, Germany
Green Carpet, exhibition within Unsafe+Sounds Festival, Zacherlfabrik, Vienna, Austria
2021
Night Parade, with Frauke Boggasch, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
2020
InterViews, artist talk, Radiosalon für Alltägliches, reboot.fm, Berlin, Germany
Group Exhibitions and Projects
2026
makām #3, makām, Berlin, Germany
Practices of Solidarity, After the butcher, Berlin, Germany
Doing everything wrong and making it all right, Moist, Berlin, Germany
Kitchen Stories, Turtlelab, Berlin, Germany
2025
Exhibition within Kanna Art Festival, Fujioka, Japan
Welteninsel, Axel Obiger, Berlin, Germany
space_relations – public parcours, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Mitte | Nacht, berlin weekly, Berlin, Germany
Anonyme Zeichner, Hyperculturalpassengers, Hamburg, Germany
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Schwellenräume, workshop and artistic theatre documentation, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
2024
Resonans, c4projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Winterschlaf, Kleiner Raum für aktuelles Nichts, Berlin, Germany
Zoologischer Garten, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Anonyme Zeichner, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Corvidae, Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin, Germany
Plant Blindness, 1st Thuringian Nature Conservation Day, Stadthalle Gotha, Germany
Portal I, infront of f space, Wuppertal, Germany
2023
Plant Blindness, Stockwerk Projects, Weimar, Germany
Vibrant City, with Silke Nowak, Café Finovo & various locations, Berlin, Germany – concept and curation
Vibrant Matter, reading within Fishing for Future, Berlin, Germany
Art Book Fairs (selection)
Since 2017 regular participation in art book fairs including:
Miss Read Art Book Fair, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Volumes Art Book Fair, Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland
super BOOKS Art Book Fair, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
