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Ciarán Walsh (b. Ireland, 1980) is an artist, curator and cultural manager based in Berlin, Germany. His artistic work explores place, memory, and transformation, commonly utilising the spectral as a tool of exploration. His Curatorial work and cultural managment is primarily focused on working with publically-funded bodies and independent spaces.

Walsh has shown his artwork at numerous galleries and art spaces internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including Kunsthalle Bratislava, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, MuHKA in Antwerp, Project Art Space in Dublin, VISUAL - National Centre for Contemporary Art in Carlow, and Ujazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw. He produced two artists’ novellas Vortices and The Sickness, utilising sci-fi and pulp fiction modes to generate textual book artworks. Most recently he completed a documentary-style film work, Here is Some Place Else, exploring the actos of memory around a disappeared village in eastern Germany.

Additional to his art practice he has undertaken curatorial, archival and editorial work on diverse visual arts and cultural projects, among them The Reading Room, focusing on publication-based artworks, with manifestations in Berlin, Birmingham, Dublin and Paris, and the public arts projects in Ireland Hedgeschool and Sweet Futures. As a cultural manager, he was part of the core team that delivered Zeitgiest Irland 24, a year-long programme of contemporary Irish arts in Germany in 2024, and the Project Manager for the International Summercamp 2026, a summer school in Germany for art, architecture, design and related disciplines.

Education

MA in Art in the Contemporary World
National Collage of Art & Design
Dublin, Ireland
2006

BA in Fine Art (Digital & Scultpure)
IADT Dun Laoghaire
Dublin, Ireland
2003

Relevant Employment

Project Manager ‘Summercamp 2026’
Bauhaus Foundation Dessau
2025 - Present

Assistant Cultural Officer for
‘Zeitgeist Irland 24’
Embassy of Ireland in Germany
2023 - 2025

Project Manager
Esther Schipper gallery
2019-2023

Berlin Studio Manager
Flaming Beacon Architectural Lighting
2017 - 2019

Curatorial, Archival
& Editorial Work

Irish Energy, exhibition with various invted artisits
Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Berlin, 2024*

The Reading Room, library, exhibitions and events, various invited artists & writers,
Flutgraben Berlin, Grand Union Birmingham and diverse temporary sites
2010-12**

Travelogue Art Zine, edited publication series, various invited artists & writers
Berlin, Germany
2008-10

Sweet Futures, public art commission, invited artist Sarah Browne
Carlow, Ireland
2007

Hedge School, public art commision, invited artist Glenn Loughran, Carlow, Ireland
2006

Forgotten Zine Library, archive, library, exhibitions & events,
Dublin, Ireland
2004-2007

*initial co-curatorial work; final exhibition curated solely by Sheena Malone
**co-curated with Dominique Hurth

Solo Exhibitions, Screenings & Performances

Between a tenth and a fifteenth Studio Beta
Berlin, Germany
2021

Beyond Other Voices
Galway Arts Centre
Galway, Ireland
2014

The Ghost of an Image,
insitu (web radio broadcast)
Berlin, Germany
2014

The Ghost of an Image
The Drawing Room
Dublin, Ireland
2014

They Echo in the Sublime Stillness of Infinity
Light & Wire (digital gallery)
Los Angeles, USA
2013

It's Just a Shadow Away Stedefreude
Berlin, Germany
2012

It's Just a Shadow Away
GlogauAIR
Berlin, Germany
2012

this brief visual pattern
Pallas Projects
Dublin, Ireland
2011

Conduit & Iris Stream
VISUAL – National Centre for Contemporary Art
Carlow, Ireland
2009

Group Exhibitions & Events (Selected)

Irish Energy
Die Möglichkeit Einer Insel
Berlin, Germany
2024

It’s Hard Being a Character in Somebody Else’s Novel
Kreig?
Hasselt, Belgium,
2023***

Reading Artist’s Books,
HGB
Leipzig, Germany
2022

Caretaking 2020-21,
The Watch
Berlin, Germany, 2021

Montage ou la Bibliothèque à Venir, Frac france-comté
Besançon, France, 2018***

Into the Mu,
Kunsthalle Bratislava
Bratislava, Slovakia
2017

Artists' Novels Collection
Ujazdowski Castle CCA,
Warsaw, Poland
2017***

The Line of Beauty
Irish Museum of Modern Art
Dublin, Ireland
2013

False Optimism, Crawford City Gallery
Cork, Ireland
2013

Instantaneous Personal Magnetism, Galway Arts Centre
Galway, Ireland
2010

Aion Experiments
Project Arts
Dublin, Ireland
2010

Menschheit
Mother's Tankstation
Dublin, Ireland
2008

***work exhibited as part of The Book Lovers collection

Awarding & Funding Bodies

Stiftung Kunstfonds
The Arts Council of Ireland
Berufsverband Bildender Künstler*innen Berlin
The Sculptors’ Society of Ireland
Visualise Programme Carlow
Carlow County Council
Percent-for-Art Scheme, Ireland
Goethe Institut Irland

Last Updated 05.09.26