KRISHAN RAJAPAKSHE
Berlin, Germany
1984ksr@gmail.com | +49 152 156 73813
www.krishanrajapakshe.com
EDUCATION
2004–2007
Visual Communication, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
2000–2003
Diploma in Desktop Publishing, Bit International (Pvt) Ltd., Sri Lanka
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selected)
2023
Dignity of Lentils, Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin
2019
Decolonizing Alphabet, Capitalshits 02, Berlin
2019
Learning from Journeys, Breidenbach Studios, Heidelberg
2018
Killing Us Softly, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2017
Women Are Heroes, Hochschule, Kaufbeuren
2017
Women Are Heroes, Kulturhaus, Augsburg
2016
Women Are Heroes, WerkStadt Gallery, Berlin
2015
Moments of Exile, WerkStadt Gallery, Berlin
2011
Dis-Space, Jaffna Centre, Jaffna
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2025
Anti-Imperial Kitchen, Berlin
2025
Why Zine, Off:Hybrid, Berlin
2024
LABOR: The Publishing LABOR, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
2022
documenta fifteen, Kassel
2022
INDERNET, Cologne
2021
Re-Membering the Surfaces of the Specters, Die Blakone, Berlin
2020
From Within the Cracks (*foundationClass), nGbK, Berlin
2020
Raupenimmersattism, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin
INFRASTRUCTURAL / COLLECTIVE PROJECTS
We Are Born Free Community Radio, Berlin (Co-founder, with Bino Byakuleka)
Common Kitchen Practice, Berlin (in collaboration with Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße)
Community Summer School, Berlin (in collaboration with Nachbarschaftsgarten Kreuzberg)
Khaya Practice: Zine Archive, Berlin (with Abdul Dube)
Off:Hybrid Studio, Berlin (Co-Artistic Director, with Miriam Koch)
ZINES / PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
2025
Kitchen Zine: Anti-Imperial Edition
2025
Feeding Protest
2025
Collaboration with Art of Working Class Newspaper
2024
Re-Imagining the Act of Closing (*foundationClass)
2024
Mosaic of Home Making
2024
Lover’s Thigy
2023
Common Kitchen
2023
Dignity of Lentils
2023
Food Concept
2022
BPoC Avengers
2022
The Book (*foundationClass)
2022
Decolonizing Alphabet
2021
Zick Magazine, Dresden
TALKS / LECTURES (Selected)
2025
Why Zine, Off:Hybrid, Berlin (with Abdul Dube)
2024
Home Making Performance, Nachbarschaftsgarten Kreuzberg, Berlin
2023
Dinner Performance and Protest Saga, Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin
2022
Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Berlin
2022
nGbK Lecture: Art & Collectives: What’s Next After Kassel?, Berlin
2022
Why Self-Publishing Matters, Tamil Book Fair, Berlin
2021
The Visuality of Political Mobility, Fusion Festival, Germany
2019
Decolonizing Alphabet, Unframed Festival, Berlin
2017
KOSMOSÇ LABOR (curated by Grada Kilomba), Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin
TEACHING / WORKSHOPS (Selected)
2022–Present
Künstlerisch-Gestalterische Grundlagen, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
2023–Present
Common Kitchen Practice, Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße, Berlin
2018–Present
Teacher and Mentor, *foundationClass, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
2021–2022
Guest Professor of Drawing, Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin
2025
Community Summer School, Berlin
2023–2024
Art Camp 08/09, Minitremu Learning Center, Timișoara
2023 (Summer Semester)
Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Mainz, Mainz
2018
Song of the City: Finding a Visual Narration of the City, Bangalore
2018
Story Making: Comic Workshop, Raumfänger Project, Heidelberg
2017
Visualizing How We Feel Here, DAI, Heidelberg
2017
Mentor, The Visual School, Mai Foto Gallery, Berlin
2015
Life in Germany: Visual Workshop, Berufsfachschule, Freiburg
2014
Imagine Places: A Visual Art Workshop, Phnom Penh
2010–2011
Guest Lecturer, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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