Krishan Rajapakshe

    CV

    Negombo, Sri Lanka / Berlin, Germany
    1984ksr@gmail.com | 0152 156 73813 | www.krishanrajapakshe.blog
    Languages: German, English, Sinhala

    About

    Krishan Rajapakshe is a Berlin based Sri Lankan artist whose practice begins and ends with drawing, a line he treats as a structural condition of thought rather than one medium among many. From that ground the work moves into printed editions, layered textile environments, radio, and collective formats that turn space into something to be gathered in. Radio and broadcasting run through the work as a method rather than an occasional output, where he treats radio as an acoustic form of drawing and listening as a political act, and publishing and the communal kitchen carry that same method in their own way, the kitchen held as a site of artistic and knowledge production in its own right. In time all of these practices turn into knowledge production, taking shape as curriculum and as a pedagogical method.

    Education

    2004 to 2007Visual Communication, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
    2000 to 2003Diploma in Desktop Publishing, Bit International (Pvt) Ltd., Sri Lanka

    Solo Exhibitions (Selected)

    2026Project 1977: Where Does the Crack Start
    2025What Will Happen When We Come Together, with Rike Glaser
    2023Dignity of Lentils, Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin
    2019Decolonizing Alphabet, Capitalshits 02, Berlin
    2019Learning from Journeys, Breidenbach Studios, Heidelberg
    2018Killing Us Softly, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
    2017Women Are Heroes, Hochschule, Kaufbeuren
    2017Women Are Heroes, Kulturhaus, Augsburg
    2016Women Are Heroes, WerkStadt Gallery, Berlin
    2015Moments of Exile, WerkStadt Gallery, Berlin
    2011Dis-Space, Jaffna Centre, Jaffna

    Group Exhibitions and Projects (Selected)

    2025Anti-Imperial Kitchen, Berlin
    2025Why Zine, Off:Hybrid, Wedding, Berlin
    2025Practicing Community: Summer School, a Learning, Teaching and Making format
    2024LABO*R, the Publishing LABO*R, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin
    2022documenta fifteen, Kassel
    2022INDERNET, Cologne
    2021Re-Membering the Surfaces of the Specters, Die Balkone, Berlin
    2020From Within the Cracks, *foundationClass, nGbK, Berlin
    2020Raupenimmersattism, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin

    Infrastructural Projects

    • Radio WBF Community Radio, cofounded with Bino Byakuleka
    • Common Kitchen Practice, in collaboration with Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße, Berlin
    • Community Summer School, in collaboration with Nachbarschaftsgarten Kreuzberg
    • Khaya Practice with Abdul Dube
    • Kitchen Table Archive, part of the Khaya Practice Zine Library
    • Off:Hybrid Studio, co artistic director with Miriam Koch

    Zines and Publications

    2026How to Be a Collective, Berlin
    2026Radio as Method
    2025Kitchen Zine, Anti-Imperial Edition
    2025Gestures of the Oppressors
    2025What Does the River Whisper When It Meets the Sea
    2025Feeding Protest
    2025Collaboration with Art of the Working Class newspaper
    2024Re-Imagining the Act of Closing, *foundationClass
    2024Mosaic of Home Making
    2024Lover’s Thing
    2023Common Kitchen
    2023Dignity of Lentils
    2023Food Concept
    2022BPoC Avengers, zine
    2022The Book, *foundationClass
    2022Decolonizing Alphabet, zine
    2021Zick Magazine, editorial magazine, published in Dresden

    Artist Talks and Lectures

    2026Space of Orientation, Rückblick: Symposium “Spaces for Orientation”, Institut für Visuelle Kommunikation
    2025Why Zine, Off:Hybrid, with Abdul Dube
    2024Home Making Performance, Nachbarschaftsgarten Kreuzberg, Berlin
    2023Dinner Performance and Protest Saga, Neue Nachbarschaft Moabit, Berlin
    2022Market for Useful Knowledge and Non-Knowledge, Berlin
    2022Art and Collectives: What Comes Next After Kassel, nGbK Lecture, Berlin
    2022Why Self-Publishing Matters, Tamil Book Fair, Berlin
    2021The Visuality of Political Mobility, Fusion Festival, Berlin
    2019Decolonizing Alphabet, Unframed Festival, Berlin
    2017KOSMOS LABOR, curated by Grada Kilomba, Maxim Gorki Theater, Berlin

    Workshops and Teaching

    2025Why Drawing, Minitremu Mini Library, Timișoara
    2025Community Summer School, Kreuzberg, Berlin
    2024Art Camp 09, Minitremu Learning Center, Timișoara
    2023*foundationClass Workshop, Minitremu Learning Center, Timișoara
    2023Kitchen Practice Curriculum, Nachbarschaftshaus Urbanstraße, Berlin
    2023Visual Communication, Kunsthochschule Mainz, summer semester
    2022Künstlerische Gestalterische Grundlagen, Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin
    2021 to 2022Guest Professor of Drawing, Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin
    2018Teacher and Mentor, *foundationClass, Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin
    2018Song of the City, Finding a Visual Narration of the City, Bangalore
    2018Story Making, Comic Workshop, Raumfänger Project, Heidelberg
    2017Visualizing How We Feel Here, Mixed Media Workshop, DAI, Heidelberg
    2017Mentor, The Visual School, Mai Foto Gallery, Berlin
    2015Life in Germany, Visual Workshop, Berufsfachschule, Freiburg
    2014Imagine Places, A Visual Art Workshop, Phnom Penh
    2010 to 2011Visual Arts and Performing Arts, University of Kelaniya

    Last updated September 2026

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