Raisa Galofre is a Colombian-Caribbean interdisciplinary artist, photographer, curator and researcher working between Berlin, Germany and Barranquilla, Colombia. Her artistic work is informed by the hybrid and creole character of magic-realistic storytelling, the caribbean thinking/feeling/sensing and the carnivals. She explores their narrative, aesthetic, sonic and performative characterisics as a means to reveal, question and counter-narrate western narratives and constructs.
Her photography embraces the clash, mixture and encounter of the opposites: real and fantastic, rational and mythical elements, which she translates into staged photographs and photographic sculptures.
Currently
Artist & Researcher
Independent Photographer available for commissions in portrait, editorial, product and documentary photography.(Full commercial Portfolio upon request)
Cultural worker at SAVVY Contemporary | The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin in the areas of Curation and photography (documentation)
Project Manager in Visual Arts at DAAD Berlin-in-Artist Programm
Initiator of MMM -Movements.Manifesting.Monuments (soon online!)
Member of bbk - Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Berlin(Professional Association of Visual Artists in Berlin)
Education
2022 Specialization in Epistemologies of the South, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and Latinamerican Counsil of Social Sciences (CLACSO),online.
2014 Master of Arts in Photography, University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany
2009 Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Journalism, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Curatorial & Research projects
2024 CONCEPT & CURATION
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of form-Ideas
Research, Exhibition and Performance project SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS
CONCEPT & CURATION Performance series “Between Riot & Choir”
CONEPT & CURATION Invocations Programme SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS
2021 - 2022 CO-CURATOR + RESEARCHER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Magical Hackerism or the Elasticity of Resilence.
CURATOR Invocations prorgram (Symposium) of the Magical Hackerism project at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2018 - 2019 CURATORIAL RESEARCHER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design. SAVVY Contemporary's way of engaging with 100 Years of Bauhaus.
2018 CURATORIAL ASSISTANT + PRODUCTION MANAGER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Whose Land have I lit on now? Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality.
A SAVVY Contemporary project in the framework of 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. In Collaboration with Or Gallery, Vancouver.
2009 RESEARCHER
Project: Un análisis de los elementos narrativos y del lenguaje cinematográfico, posmodernos presentes en los relatos audiovisuales de la Nueva Ola del Caribe. Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación y Cultura. Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, Colombia.
2006 DIRECTION AND CONCEPT
ConocerTV: a series of theoretical and practical seminars on critical thinking towards mass media developed in High Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Teaching
2021 Fashion Photography and since 2016 Object Photography for Design students at the University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle.(Teaching concept and portfolio upon request)
Artist & Researcher
Independent Photographer available for commissions in portrait, editorial, product and documentary photography.(Full commercial Portfolio upon request)
Cultural worker at SAVVY Contemporary | The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin in the areas of Curation and photography (documentation)
Project Manager in Visual Arts at DAAD Berlin-in-Artist Programm
Initiator of MMM -Movements.Manifesting.Monuments (soon online!)
Member of bbk - Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Berlin(Professional Association of Visual Artists in Berlin)
Education
2022 Specialization in Epistemologies of the South, Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and Latinamerican Counsil of Social Sciences (CLACSO),online.
2014 Master of Arts in Photography, University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, Germany
2009 Bachelor in Communication Sciences and Journalism, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Curatorial & Research projects
2024 CONCEPT & CURATION
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of form-Ideas
Research, Exhibition and Performance project SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS
CONCEPT & CURATION Performance series “Between Riot & Choir”
CONEPT & CURATION Invocations Programme SOCIETY: OR INFINITE REHEARSALS
2021 - 2022 CO-CURATOR + RESEARCHER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Magical Hackerism or the Elasticity of Resilence.
CURATOR Invocations prorgram (Symposium) of the Magical Hackerism project at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2018 - 2019 CURATORIAL RESEARCHER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design. SAVVY Contemporary's way of engaging with 100 Years of Bauhaus.
2018 CURATORIAL ASSISTANT + PRODUCTION MANAGER
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany.
Project: Whose Land have I lit on now? Contemplations on the Notions of Hostipitality.
A SAVVY Contemporary project in the framework of 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture. In Collaboration with Or Gallery, Vancouver.
2009 RESEARCHER
Project: Un análisis de los elementos narrativos y del lenguaje cinematográfico, posmodernos presentes en los relatos audiovisuales de la Nueva Ola del Caribe. Grupo de Investigación en Comunicación y Cultura. Universidad del Norte. Barranquilla, Colombia.
2006 DIRECTION AND CONCEPT
ConocerTV: a series of theoretical and practical seminars on critical thinking towards mass media developed in High Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia.
Teaching
2021 Fashion Photography and since 2016 Object Photography for Design students at the University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle.(Teaching concept and portfolio upon request)
Awards
2022 Recipient, NEUSTARTKULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2021 Recipient, Artist residency at Plataforma Caníbal in Barranquilla, COL
2020 Recipient, Berlin Global Stipend by the Senat Department of Culture of the city of Berlin, DE
2020 Recipient, 3rd place prize Münzenberg Forum Kunstwettbewerb in photography, Berlin, DE
2020 Shortlist, Arabic Divan Photography Award with the series: Echando pa’lante
2020 Finalist, Top 10 Finalist – Lucie Foundation and Musée Magazine, In Isolation: You, Me, We, in the Portrait category, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Shortlist, International Photo festival GETXOPHOTO, Series: Concrete Discontinuities, Getxo, ES
2019 Recipient, Artist residency: BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Hosted by IIHS Bangalore. In collaboration with Marvin Systermans. (October - December 2019), IN
2019 Shortlist, Felix Schoeller Photo Award. Category: Portrait, series: Show me your Europe, DE
2019 Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, nominated work: In the Beginning was the Sea, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, Nominated work: Photography Mestiza, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Finalist, Profifoto New Talents Awards 15/2, Series: Aus Hand und Stein, DE
2009 Recipient, One year Scholarship Young Researchers Program, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, COL
2009 Recipient, Silver Medal for Academic Achievement, Barranquilla, COL
2009 Recipient, recognition for scientific work for the Bachelor Thesis, COL
2008 Recipient, Best Filmminuto “El sueño de Julieta” Dir. Claudia Ávila, Imaginatón Festival. Art Direction and Photography, Bogotá, COL
Works in Film
2009 —2010 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND SCRIPT
Documentary: “La Hija de la Luz”, 52 min, Dir. Roberto Flores Prieto, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla Colombia
2009 CO-ART DIRECTOR
Short Film: “Maquillaje para Ciegos”, 12 min, Dir. Viviana Goelkel, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla, Colombia
2007 DIRECTOR
Documentary: Al Son de Rebolo, 8 min, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
2022 Recipient, NEUSTARTKULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
2021 Recipient, Artist residency at Plataforma Caníbal in Barranquilla, COL
2020 Recipient, Berlin Global Stipend by the Senat Department of Culture of the city of Berlin, DE
2020/21 Recipient, Project Funding by the Chamber of Employees Bremen, DE
2020 Recipient, 3rd place prize Münzenberg Forum Kunstwettbewerb in photography, Berlin, DE
2020 Shortlist, Arabic Divan Photography Award with the series: Echando pa’lante
2020 Finalist, Top 10 Finalist – Lucie Foundation and Musée Magazine, In Isolation: You, Me, We, in the Portrait category, Los Angeles, USA
2020 Shortlist, International Photo festival GETXOPHOTO, Series: Concrete Discontinuities, Getxo, ES
2019 Recipient, Artist residency: BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Hosted by IIHS Bangalore. In collaboration with Marvin Systermans. (October - December 2019), IN
2019 Shortlist, Felix Schoeller Photo Award. Category: Portrait, series: Show me your Europe, DE
2019 Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, nominated work: In the Beginning was the Sea, Los Angeles, USA
2018 Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, Nominated work: Photography Mestiza, Los Angeles, USA
2015 Finalist, Profifoto New Talents Awards 15/2, Series: Aus Hand und Stein, DE
2009 Recipient, One year Scholarship Young Researchers Program, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, COL
2009 Recipient, Silver Medal for Academic Achievement, Barranquilla, COL
2009 Recipient, recognition for scientific work for the Bachelor Thesis, COL
2008 Recipient, Best Filmminuto “El sueño de Julieta” Dir. Claudia Ávila, Imaginatón Festival. Art Direction and Photography, Bogotá, COL
Works in Film
2009 —2010 ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AND SCRIPT
Documentary: “La Hija de la Luz”, 52 min, Dir. Roberto Flores Prieto, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla Colombia
2009 CO-ART DIRECTOR
Short Film: “Maquillaje para Ciegos”, 12 min, Dir. Viviana Goelkel, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla, Colombia
2007 DIRECTOR
Documentary: Al Son de Rebolo, 8 min, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia
Solo/Duo exhibitions
2020 Notes on Feelings & the Power of Women in Jazz, Galeria Korytarz, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2019 Concrete Discontinuities. Narratives of Dwelling and Becoming in the Urban. An exhibition in collaboration with Marvin Systermans at the IIHS, Indian Institute for Human Settlements in the Framework of BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India.
2019 Aus hand und Stein, Centro Cultural Cayena, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, COL
2015 Eurasian-Unity Backstage, in the framework of the Intl. Womein in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Merseburg, DE
2014 Women in Jazz... das Gefühl, in the framework of the Intl. Women in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Halle/S, DE
Group exhibitions
2023 HOT IN AUGUST - Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, DE
2022 Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography. Series: Daughters of the Muntu, Bamako, Mali
2020 A la Calle! - GETXOPHOTO International Photo Festival, Series: Stay at home, in collaboration with Eva Gjaltema, Getxo, ES
2019 ALARUM - Online group Exhibition curated by Ardesia Projects for PHmuseum
2019 ALARUM, Exhibition by Ardesia Projects, in the framework of the Soft Power Platform: European Artist convention, Berlin, DE
2017 Menschen bei uns, neben uns, mit uns, Hoepfner Stiftung, Karlsruhe, DE
2016 DER GREIF - Guest Room by The Photocaptionist, Online exhibition
2015 10MAL10BURG100, Museum of the City Halle, Halle/S, DE
2014 Master Graduates exhibition, Raum Hellrot, Halle/S, DE
2014 Photokina Academy, Cologne, DE
2013 Annual Exhibition, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/S, DE
2013 C.A.R Contemporary Art Fair Ruhr, Essen, DE
2013 PLAN F I - PLAN F II, April & October, City Hall, Halle/S, DE
2010 AQUÍ Y AHORA: Miradas Estéticas, Anthropology Museum, Barranquilla, COL
2020 Notes on Feelings & the Power of Women in Jazz, Galeria Korytarz, Jelenia Góra, Poland
2019 Concrete Discontinuities. Narratives of Dwelling and Becoming in the Urban. An exhibition in collaboration with Marvin Systermans at the IIHS, Indian Institute for Human Settlements in the Framework of BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India.
2019 Aus hand und Stein, Centro Cultural Cayena, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, COL
2015 Eurasian-Unity Backstage, in the framework of the Intl. Womein in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Merseburg, DE
2014 Women in Jazz... das Gefühl, in the framework of the Intl. Women in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Halle/S, DE
Group exhibitions
2023 HOT IN AUGUST - Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin, DE
2022 Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography. Series: Daughters of the Muntu, Bamako, Mali
2020 A la Calle! - GETXOPHOTO International Photo Festival, Series: Stay at home, in collaboration with Eva Gjaltema, Getxo, ES
2019 ALARUM - Online group Exhibition curated by Ardesia Projects for PHmuseum
2019 ALARUM, Exhibition by Ardesia Projects, in the framework of the Soft Power Platform: European Artist convention, Berlin, DE
2017 Menschen bei uns, neben uns, mit uns, Hoepfner Stiftung, Karlsruhe, DE
2016 DER GREIF - Guest Room by The Photocaptionist, Online exhibition
2015 10MAL10BURG100, Museum of the City Halle, Halle/S, DE
2014 Master Graduates exhibition, Raum Hellrot, Halle/S, DE
2014 Photokina Academy, Cologne, DE
2013 Annual Exhibition, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/S, DE
2013 C.A.R Contemporary Art Fair Ruhr, Essen, DE
2013 PLAN F I - PLAN F II, April & October, City Hall, Halle/S, DE
2010 AQUÍ Y AHORA: Miradas Estéticas, Anthropology Museum, Barranquilla, COL
Talks & Workshops
Selection
Selection
︎ Colomboscope interdisciplinary arts festival – Language is Migrant, Workshop: Time Documents: The processes of building collective memory through exhibition and live-art photography with Sri Lanka’s photographers community, December 10, 2021, online
︎ Indian Institute of Human Settelments, Masterclass: Perspective matters: Telling stories from the Global South, Bangalore, India
︎ International Symposia Cátedra Europa, Lecture: Dialogues with archives: Re-imagining History through photography, March 19th 2019, Barranquilla, Colombia
︎ Indian Institute of Human Settelments, Masterclass: Perspective matters: Telling stories from the Global South, Bangalore, India
︎ International Symposia Cátedra Europa, Lecture: Dialogues with archives: Re-imagining History through photography, March 19th 2019, Barranquilla, Colombia
Features & Publications
Selection
Selection
︎ The New Institute, #02/22 – On Hope, featuring a selection of photographs from various of my works
︎ Missy Magazine, #01/21 – Kultur & Gesellschaft, Bildstrecke: Raisa Galofre Cortés, Germany, 2021
︎ Musée Magazine Vanguard of Photography Culture, Issue Fall 2020 – In Isolation: You, Me, We top 10 Finalists: Echando pa’lante (Marvin Systermans & Raisa Galofre) + Online feature
︎ Exit Imagen & Cultura, No. 80 – In the Beginning was the Sea, Spain, 2020
︎ aint - bad Magazine – In The Beginning was the Sea, UK, 2019
︎ Hayo Magazine, Issue 3 – hierzulande, Canada, 2017
︎ Menschen. Bei uns. Neben uns. Mit uns, Exhibition Catalog Published by the Hoepfner Stiftung, Germany, 2017
︎ 10mal10Burg100 – Exhibition Catalog in cooperation with the Museum of the City Halle Published by the University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Germany, 2015
︎ 2015 BURG Yearbook, Burg Giebichenstein Kuntshochschule Halle, Germany, 2015
︎ Profifoto, Magazin für Fotokultur und -Technik – Aus hand und Stein, Germany, 2015
︎ HANT Magazine: Schöne Neue Welt, Issue 04 – hierzulande, Germany, 2014
︎ Jazzfestival Women in Jazz Halle Catalog Photo Exhibitions: Women in Jazz...das Gefühl and Eurasians Unity- Backstage, 2013 und 2014. Published by Cultour-Büro Halle, Germany 2013/14
Interviews
︎Joia Magazine – Raisa Galofre: rompiendo narrativas exoticistas del Caribe colombiano, Chile, 2021
︎Cartel Urbano. Periodismo Callejero y Cultura Alternativa – Una mirada íntima al confinamiento en Barranquilla, Colombia, 2020
︎Cartel Urbano. Periodismo Callejero y Cultura Alternativa – Una mirada íntima al confinamiento en Barranquilla, Colombia, 2020
References
Institutions:
︎ Schule Ohne Rasissmus – Schule mit Courage ︎ Archive Books (Berlin) ︎ Galerie im Turm (Berlin) ︎ SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) ︎ Galerie Wedding (Berlin) ︎ Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Halle/Saale) ︎ EAC Network ︎ Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft e. V. (Köln) ︎ Galerie im Volkspark (Halle/Saale) ︎ Cultour-Büro Halle Ulf Herden (Halle/Saale)︎ Internationales Women in Jazz Festival Halle (Saale)
People:
︎ Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung ︎ Monilola Ilupeju ︎ Emeka Ogboh ︎ Caroline Bertram ︎ Samira Hodaei ︎ Stephanie Cuff-Schöttle ︎ Magda Korsinsky ︎ Sarah Claire Wray
︎ Schule Ohne Rasissmus – Schule mit Courage ︎ Archive Books (Berlin) ︎ Galerie im Turm (Berlin) ︎ SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin) ︎ Galerie Wedding (Berlin) ︎ Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle (Halle/Saale) ︎ EAC Network ︎ Deutsche Keramische Gesellschaft e. V. (Köln) ︎ Galerie im Volkspark (Halle/Saale) ︎ Cultour-Büro Halle Ulf Herden (Halle/Saale)︎ Internationales Women in Jazz Festival Halle (Saale)
People:
︎ Dr. Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung ︎ Monilola Ilupeju ︎ Emeka Ogboh ︎ Caroline Bertram ︎ Samira Hodaei ︎ Stephanie Cuff-Schöttle ︎ Magda Korsinsky ︎ Sarah Claire Wray
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12163, Berlin
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