Concentrating on projects of large scale 'at home'

Building of Lehmlabyrinth , Spielpalast , Shadowpavillon (2007)and the Elefants (2008) in Berlin.  Further earthen sculptures and pavilions at Cottbus, Bielefeld (2004) and in several cities of Baden - Wurttemberg. Big Mural at Wunsiedel (2004), Continuing building The earthen labyrinth in Berlins Britzer Garden (2004-200x).
Participating in Kiko Denzers book Dig your hands in the dirt! and the new website (2004/8)
Complete design for Modern Earthbuilding - International conference, Berlin (2003)

Teaching at a secondary school in Kreuzberg: Arts and graphics, computerbased Animation, Video

DVD The earthen labyrinth - 35 min DV plus bonus 60 picts in 2005-2006

DVD Shadowpavilion - 35 min DV plus3 slideshows in 2008
DVD Elefants - 40 min DV plus slideshows and presentation in 2009



On going European eARTh tour

Makunaima - 6 week open-air workshop on earth building (for children) at the Britzer Garten, Berlin.
Natural playground project at St.Josphs Kinder- und Jugendhilfszentrum, Wunsiedel - building of a clay hut, tower, willow stage and mosaic sculpture (2000-2003). Further earthen sculptures and pavilions at Cottbus, Bielefeld (2004) and at several cities of Baden - Wurtemberg.

International parttakings:

Taking part in international workshops and conferences on earthen architecture and playgrounds at Neumünster, Torquay, Berlin und Cagliari - check out actual MEDITERRA 2009, participating in Terra 2000 - international convent on earthbuilding at Torqauy / U.K. and Terra Cruda 2000 at Cagliari , building of an earth sculpture at Quartu/Sardinia.
Parttaking in the first ecological building expo BO01 at Malmø 2001, construction of a portal on a ecological playground.

Oven buildings at Roma and Bressanone.
Building of Lucertola mosaic sculpture at Bozen (Italy), Tartaruga at Cagliari.

Graphic and media works:

Trainer in Photoshop
and media at Berlins secondary Ferdinand-Freiligrath-School
Graphic poster work in context and fotographic documentation of earth works.
Mural painting projects in Wunsiedel 2004 (German language) further graphic works and web-design.
Paintings and continued photographic projects
Complete design for "Modern Earthbuilding" - International conference in Berlin 2003

DVD the earthen labyrinth - 35 min DV plus bonus 60 picts in 2005/2006
DVD Shadowpavilion - 35 min DV plus 3 slideshows in 2008

Fotobooks on my projects. see media!



1995-1999 - earthworks-spreading out

1999 - Participation in workshops and conferences on earthen architecture and playgrounds in Kiel und Görlitz, taking part in VKE - Citta dei Ragazzi at Bozen, Makunaima - 6 week open-air workshop on earth building (for children) at the Britzer Garten, in Berlin. Further earthworks at Wunsiedel and Cottbus. Mural project with 300 kids at the Pestalozzischule in Bozen (Itay).
Exhibition project Privatträume in Wunsiedel with slide installation, art lessons at the Freiligrath-Schule / Berlin, airbrush graffiti, murals for Romy Haag and Martin Buchholz at Tränenpalast-Berlin.

1998 - Mosaic sculpture Thron at Pestalozzi school in Bozen. In May 1998 realisation of the biggest European earth building festival Lehmprojekt at Weil der Stadt with 3300 participants. Sculptural workshop at the elementary school at Dartmore, England. Makunaima- 6 week open-air workshop on earth building (for children) at the Britzer Garten, in Berlin. Painting project at Britzer Garten. BerlinNapoli , collective art exchange tour to Naples/ Pozzuoli (Italy) - mural and art installation made of flotsam and jetsam. Aerosol art - mural project We all are one at Naunynritze, Kreuzberg. Closing down of Interglotz gallery.

1997 - Indivdual exhibition Lehm! Bau-Spiel-Kunst at the Orangerie, Britzer Garten, Berlin - taking part in regional workshops and conferences on earthen architecture and playgrounds. earthworks at Bozen, Oldenburg and Viersen with local children and pupils.
Bookrealease Bauen und Spielen mit Lehm - Participation in the building of Schliemann-Schule schoolyard with an earthen oven.

1996 - Building an earthen sculpture for Berlins Grüne Woche, several individual exhibitions at Interglotz-gallery, Berlin.
Graffiti mural at the CHIP (youth and cultural center). Parttaking in Lehm 96 at Meran and a further international conference on earth building at Cagliari (Sardegne), continuous work on my book on playing and building with earth. Makunaima - 6 week open-air workshop on earth building (for children) at the Britzer Garten, in Berlin.
Graphic works and gallery-leadership at Interglotz gallery, Berlin.



1990-95 - gallery years - in the hood / SO36

1995 - Manuscript Playing art!. Corporate Design for Multinational Anti-Racist Performance Project of the EU
Mete Eksi - Award for taking part in MAPP 95, anti-racist-project.

Individual photo-exhibition Natur und Mystik im Interglotz, Berlin, further exhibitions with local artists
Mosaic works at the environmental station Alpha II, Marzahn

1994 - Taking part in group-exhibition Street 94 of the To Stay Here Is My Right- Posse, at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Kreuzberg with POLAROID UFOS , and object Radio Totem.
Artistic leadership of the graffiti-exhibition Spray City, at Galerie am Pariser Platz, Berlin in cooperation with Akademie der Künste, Berlin, X´94,young art & culture in Berlin.

Participation in the exhibition Der fliegende Koffer at Haus der Kulturen der Welt - constructing a typical African clay settlement. Taking part in Lehm 94, at Aachen with slide show Makunaima, further individual exhibitions at INTERGLOTZ gallery, graphic works.

1993
Ground painting Weltenplatz 400 qm, for Britzer Garten, Berlin
Design and construction of Windmill + Sundial sculpture at the ecological playground Marzahn Nord, Berlin
Beginning building process at ecostation Alpha II
Awarded Hilde Richter Preis für Spielraumgestaltung for clay playgrounds in Berlin
HipHop-project We All Are One with To Stay Here Is My Right Posse, organisation and participation in graffiti-workshops, exhibitions and stage events.
Mete Eksi-Award for peaceful integration of German and foreign youngsters in project We All Are One
Colours & Gates, graffitimural and building of an entrance sculpture BananaBin

1992 - To Stay Here is my Right, taking part in the anti-racist art project with slide show, graffit-mural with turkish teensagers at Fichtebunker, Berlin Neukölln. Peacefighter , for the MUTOID WASTE - scrap-sculpture show at the Reichstag area, Berlin.
Taking part in the International Messe Herbst at Frankfurt with Techno Totem Tower, cultural magic object, authorship of documentation MAKUANAIMA, Bauen und Spielen mit Lehm, Stroh, Feuer und Wasser / open-air-workshop on earth building (for children) at the Britzer Garten, in Berlin.

1991 - Kinetic and decorative objects for SOX disco in Kreuzberg. Video productions in collaboration with C. Böhm: Marks Begegnung mit den Alphanauten, Die Spiegelbande with local children. First individual exhibitions at INTERGLOTZ gallery.

1990 - Re opening of the cultural-center and concerthall SO 36 , taking over INTERGLOTZ gallery, a visionary studio for visual solutions, Oranienstr.188, Berlin. First individual exhibitions, Fall of the Wall, Zwischenzeit and POLAROID-UFOS at INTERGLOTZ.
Taking part in the Mutoid Waste sculptural show, in Paris. Setting up of Makunaima project - playing and building with earth at Britzer Garten, Berlin in collaboration with C. Böhm, PLATZMOBIL.



1985 - 90  Orientation and being selfemployed

1989 - first activities in educative art projects. PLATZMOBIL membership .
Member of SubOpus 36, activities to re open the SO36 dance and music hall. First contact with MUTOID WASTE volunteer in scrap-sculpturing at Görlitzer Bahnhof, Berlin.

1988 / 89 - Graphic and photographic works for German Aids Foundation (DAH), Berlin - Individual exhibitions at the INTERGLOTZ gallery , Berlin mit POLAROID UFOS , and ZWISCHENZEIT with paintings and photographic works.

1987 - Die Anweisung - Art on billboards II, Berlin, under the Yorck bridges. Street art on billboards at Wunsiedel, (activities protesting against acid rain and polution of the environment). Contributions towards Berlin, Berlin, Tapes A+P, Copy Art at Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.

1985 / 86 - Journeys to Tanzania, visits to the Bagamoyo Art College - at that time working as a vegetrarian cook in Berlin.



1981 - 1984  The KuKuCK-Academy - experiences and studies

1981-84 - Working and living in the famous squat Kunst und Kultur Zentrum Kreuzberg - KUKUCK - autodidactic studies and practical works in painting and land art, exhibition projects. Taking part in the organisation and documentation of the cultural events at KuKuCK.

1982 - Big mural of the KuKuCK-Fassaden, Anhalter Str. 7, Berlin. Taking part in exhibitions and art projects under the pseudonym "Rainer Wahnsinn" - Installation and land art in context of Roto-Free-Space Berlin - works on billboards. Participation in Steirischer Herbst at Graz, with Street art on billboards, colors on photocopies, Polaroid photographs.

1983 - Mural painting Drugstore, Berlin. Backdrop for National Dance Company of Zimbabwe - European Tour - Group exhibition Berliner Strich, Regensburg, Galerie unter den Arkaden.

1984 - Collective exhibition KUKUCK in the Akademie der Künste, Berlin- Performance KuKUCK - Cage in cooperation with HDK, Berlin.
Performance Last Car, for exhibition project Schöne neue Welt, Berlin - Participation in Die Anweisung, Berlin - Street art on billboards, expulsion and loss of the cultural center KuKuCK.

1980 - Coming to Berlin, Academic studies (Social Sciences) at FU-Berlin



by Rainer Warzecha, Interglotz-Visionen, Engeldamm 18, 10179 Berlin, Germany