Raisa Galofre is a Colombian-Caribbean artist, mother, photographer, cultural worker 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.
︎ mail@raisagalofre.com
insta soundcloud vimeo
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.
︎ mail@raisagalofre.com
insta soundcloud vimeo
currently
︎independent photographer available for commissions in portrait, editorial, cultural
(exhibitions/live-art) and object/product photography.
︎curator & photographer at SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas in Berlin.
︎project manager in Visual Arts at the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program
︎Initiator of MMM -Movements.Manifesting.Monuments (soon online!)
︎Member of bbk - Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Berlin
current projects
︎curator, exhibition, research and performance project Society: Or infinite Rehearsals
SAVVY Contemporary together with Meghna Singh︎︎︎
︎ co-producer, exhibiton: Inituitive Porosity by Esvin Alarcón Lam
curated by Melanie Roumiguière da Silva, DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program ︎︎︎
︎co-editor, publication of the project Magical Hackerism and the Elasticity of Resilience ︎︎︎
SAVVY Contemporary.
︎audiovisual advisor + editor, documentary film Tertele by artists Nadin Reschke and Seçil Yersel
︎independent photographer available for commissions in portrait, editorial, cultural
(exhibitions/live-art) and object/product photography.
︎curator & photographer at SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas in Berlin.
︎project manager in Visual Arts at the DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program
︎Initiator of MMM -Movements.Manifesting.Monuments (soon online!)
︎Member of bbk - Berufsverband bildender Künstler*innen Berlin
current projects
︎curator, exhibition, research and performance project Society: Or infinite Rehearsals
SAVVY Contemporary together with Meghna Singh︎︎︎
︎ co-producer, exhibiton: Inituitive Porosity by Esvin Alarcón Lam
curated by Melanie Roumiguière da Silva, DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program ︎︎︎
︎co-editor, publication of the project Magical Hackerism and the Elasticity of Resilience ︎︎︎
SAVVY Contemporary.
︎audiovisual advisor + editor, documentary film Tertele by artists Nadin Reschke and Seçil Yersel
Education
Specialization in Epistemologies
of the South
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and Latinamerican Counsil of Social Sciences (CLACSO), online, 2023
of the South
Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) and Latinamerican Counsil of Social Sciences (CLACSO), online, 2023
Master of Arts in Photography
University of Arts and Design Burg
Giebichenstein, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2014
University of Arts and Design Burg
Giebichenstein, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2014
B.A in Communication Sciences and Journalism
Universidad del Norte
Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Universidad del Norte
Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Solo shows
Notes on Feelings & the Power of Women in Jazz
Galeria Korytarz
Jelenia Góra, Poland
2020
Galeria Korytarz
Jelenia Góra, Poland
2020
Concrete Discontinuities. Narratives of Dwelling and Becoming in the Urban
An exhibition in collaboration with Marvin Systermans, IIHS, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India, 2019
An exhibition in collaboration with Marvin Systermans, IIHS, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore, India, 2019
Aus hand und Stein
Centro Cultural Cayena, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2019
Centro Cultural Cayena, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2019
Eurasian-Unity Backstage
in the framework of the International Womein in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Merseburg, Germany, 2015
in the framework of the International Womein in Jazz Festival Halle, Saalesparkasse, Merseburg, Germany, 2015
Women in Jazz... das Gefühl
in the framework of the International Women in Jazz Festival, Halle, Saalesparkasse, Halle/S, Germany, 2014
in the framework of the International Women in Jazz Festival, Halle, Saalesparkasse, Halle/S, Germany, 2014
Group shows
HOT IN AUGUST
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain,
Berlin, Germany, 2023
Fotogalerie Friedrichshain,
Berlin, Germany, 2023
Bamako Encounters – African Biennale of Photography. Maa ka Maaya ka ca a yere kono
On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming, and Heritage
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Meriem Berrada, Tandazani Dhlakama and Liz Ikiriko
Bamako, Mali, 2022
On Multiplicity, Difference, Becoming, and Heritage
Curated by Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Meriem Berrada, Tandazani Dhlakama and Liz Ikiriko
Bamako, Mali, 2022
A la Calle! - GETXOPHOTO International Photo Festival,
Curated by Jon Uriarte
Getxo, Spain, 2020
Curated by Jon Uriarte
Getxo, Spain, 2020
ALARUM
Online group Exhibition curated by Ardesia Projects for PHmuseum, 2019
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, Germany, 2019
Menschen bei uns, neben uns, mit uns, Hoepfner Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2017
DER GREIF - Guest Room by The Photocaptionist, Online exhibition, 2016
10MAL10BURG100
Museum of the City Halle, Halle/S, Germany, 2015
Museum of the City Halle, Halle/S, Germany, 2015
Master Graduates exhibition,
Raum Hellrot, Halle/S, Germany, 2014
Photokina Academy
Cologne, Germany, 2014
Cologne, Germany, 2014
Annual Exhibition, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle/S, Germany, 2013
C.A.R Contemporary Art Fair Ruhr, Essen, Germany, 2013
PLAN F I - PLAN F II, April & October, City Hall, Halle/S, Germany, 2013
AQUÍ Y AHORA: Miradas Estéticas
Anthropology Museum, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2010
Anthropology Museum, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2010
Awards, nominations & shortlists
Recipient, NEUSTARTKULTUR, Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, Germany, 2022
Recipient, Artist residency at Plataforma Caníbal in Barranquilla, Colombia, 2021
Recipient, Berlin Global Stipend by the Senat Department of Culture of the city of Berlin, Germany, 2020
Recipient, Project Funding by the Chamber of Employees Bremen, Germany, 2020/21
Recipient, 3rd place prize Münzenberg Forum Kunstwettbewerb in photography, Berlin, Germany, 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, Spain, 2020
Recipient, Artist residency: BangaloREsidency, Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Hosted by IIHS Bangalore. In collaboration with Marvin Systermans. (October - December 2019), India
Shortlist, Felix Schoeller Photo Award. Category: Portrait, series: Show me your Europe, Germany, 2019
Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, nominated work: In the Beginning was the Sea, Los Angeles, USA, 2019
Nominated, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Photography Scholarship Awards, Nominated work: Photography Mestiza, Los Angeles, USA, 2018
Finalist, Profifoto New Talents Awards 15/2, Series: Aus Hand und Stein, Germany, 2015
Recipient, One year Scholarship Young Researchers Program, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Recipient, Silver Medal for Academic Achievement, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Recipient, recognition for scientific work for the Bachelor Thesis, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Recipient, Best Filmminuto
“El sueño de Julieta” Dir. Claudia Ávila, Art Direction and Photography, Imaginatón Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008
“El sueño de Julieta” Dir. Claudia Ávila, Art Direction and Photography, Imaginatón Festival, Bogotá, Colombia, 2008
Curatorial & research projects
curator research, exhibition and performance project Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2024
SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2024
curator performance series “Between Riot & Choir”, in the framework of Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals, SAVVY Contemporary, 2024
curator discursive programme Invocations, in the framework of Society: Or Infinite Rehearsals, 2024
researcher and co-curator
Project: Magical Hackerism or the Elasticity of Resilence,
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany. 2021-2022
Project: Magical Hackerism or the Elasticity of Resilence,
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany. 2021-2022
curator Invocations prorgram (Symposium) of the Magical Hackerism project at SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin, 2022
curatorial researcher
Project: Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design. SAVVY Contemporary's way of engaging with 100 Years of Bauhaus,
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany, 2019
Project: Spinning Triangles: Ignition of a School of Design. SAVVY Contemporary's way of engaging with 100 Years of Bauhaus,
SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany, 2019
curatorial assistance and production manager
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, SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany, 2018
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, SAVVY Contemporary. The Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Berlin, Germany, 2018
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, 2008
concept and direction, project: ConocerTV: a series of theoretical and practical seminars on critical thinking towards mass media developed in High Schools in Barranquilla, Colombia, 2006
Commissions
we travel in circles / viajamos en rondas
a sound piece on ancestral sonic afro-caribbean knowledges in Bullerengue music for the project: 4+3=1 at SAVVY Contemporary
a sound piece on ancestral sonic afro-caribbean knowledges in Bullerengue music for the project: 4+3=1 at SAVVY Contemporary
Works in film
audiovisual advisor and editor
Documentary: ‘Tertele’ by artists Nadin Reschke and Seçil Yersel (ongoing)
Documentary: ‘Tertele’ by artists Nadin Reschke and Seçil Yersel (ongoing)
assistant director and script
Documentary: ‘La Hija de la Luz’, 52 min, Dir. Roberto Flores Prieto, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla Colombia, 2009 - 2010
Documentary: ‘La Hija de la Luz’, 52 min, Dir. Roberto Flores Prieto, Kymera Producciones. Barranquilla Colombia, 2009 - 2010
co-art director
Short Film: ‘Maquillaje para Ciegos’, 12 min, Dir. Viviana Goelkel, Kymera Producciones, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
Short Film: ‘Maquillaje para Ciegos’, 12 min, Dir. Viviana Goelkel, Kymera Producciones, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2009
director
Documentary: ‘Al Son de Rebolo’, 8 min, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2007
Documentary: ‘Al Son de Rebolo’, 8 min, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia, 2007
Teaching
Object photography for design students
University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, 2016 - 2022
University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle, 2016 - 2022
fashion photography
University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle 2021
University of Arts and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle 2021
fashion photography
macromedia academy, Leipzig, Germany, 2019 - 2020
macromedia academy, Leipzig, Germany, 2019 - 2020
Talks and workshops
wir sind hier! wir sind das Denkmal!
workshop in the framework of the colloquium Tertele, FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin, 2022
workshop in the framework of the colloquium Tertele, FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin, 2022
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 10th, 2021, online
Indian Institute of Human Settelments, Masterclass: Perspective matters: Telling stories from the Global South, Bangalore, India, 2019
International Symposia Cátedra Europa
Lecture: Dialogues with archives: Re-imagining History through photography, Barranquilla, Colombia, March 19th 2019,
Lecture: Dialogues with archives: Re-imagining History through photography, Barranquilla, Colombia, March 19th 2019,
Press: features and interviews
The New Institute, #02/22 – On Hope, featuring a selection of photographs from various of my works
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
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
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
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
I’ve worked with:
(institutions)
(institutions)
SAVVY Contemporary (Berlin)
DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program
Villa Romana Florenz (Italy)
Archive Books (Berlin)
Galerie im Turm (Berlin)
Galerie Wedding (Berlin)
Plataforma Caníbal (Barranquilla)
Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla)
Kymera Producciones (Barranquilla)
Colomboscope Festival (Sri Lanka)
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan (Bangalore)
Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore)
Schule Ohne Rasissmus – Schule mit Courage (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)
DAAD Artist-in-Berlin Program
Villa Romana Florenz (Italy)
Archive Books (Berlin)
Galerie im Turm (Berlin)
Galerie Wedding (Berlin)
Plataforma Caníbal (Barranquilla)
Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla)
Kymera Producciones (Barranquilla)
Colomboscope Festival (Sri Lanka)
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan (Bangalore)
Institute for Human Settlements (Bangalore)
Schule Ohne Rasissmus – Schule mit Courage (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)
Impressum
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12163, Berlin
E-Mail: mail@raisagalofre.com
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