ABOUT

Rainer Junghanns

1963 Born in Munich, living in Düsseldorf
1985 Study Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
1989 Awarded first prize Kunstort Düsseldorf, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf
1991 Awarded first prize, first international biannual exhibition Györ, Hungary
1992 Grant from the Foundation for Art and Culture, State North Rhine-Westphalia
2006 Grant from the Foundation for Art and Culture, State North Rhine-Westphalia
from 2017 Curator RAUM _ fuer _ RAUM / RAUM für Kunst _ Concepts, Projects, Participations www.raumfuerraum.net
2020 Start of ‘HIDDEN _ Project’ www.hiddenproject.de / ‘Global Art project’
2021 Research Grant ‘New Start culture’ , ‘digital communication formats’ , The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media _ HIDDEN _ Messages
Scholarship Holder, Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia ‘nomansland.academy’
2022 Start of ‘nomansland.academy’ www.nomansland.academy / Global Art Project
2023 Start of ‘undress me my little B U D D H A’ www.globalart.academy / Global Art Project
2024 Invitation to participate in the 4th Jeju Biennale 2024
2025 Curator at NordArt for Focus Project 'DO / d a t - code'
Jury member for a BIPF (Busan International Photo Festival) Collaboration Project in 2026

EXHIBITIONS AND GLOBAL ART PROJECTS

2025 DO / d a t _ code, Schloss Mitsuko, Ger a collaboration Project with RfR / R J Düsseldorf
DO / d a t _ code goes NordArt in collaboration with Schloss Mitsuko, Ger and RfR / R J Düsseldorf
Mothership _ return / ‘MOMBASA _ SHIPPING _ PROJECT’ _ VOL IX
'summer _ T I M E', KP Gallery (Korean Photographer Gallery) Seoul
'summer _ T I M E', Japanese Museum Schloss Mitsuko, Ger
Participant BIPF (Busan International Photo Festival) 2025
2024 'Mombasa Shipping Project' _ Vol VIII, Kunsthaus NRW / Kornelimünster, Aachen, Ger _ Installation
'undress me my little B U D D H A' goes France, 60 AdaDa Saint Denis / Paris _ Global Art Project
'undress me my little B U D D H A' goes Schloss Mitsuko, Ger _ Global Art Project
“undress me my little B U D D H A”, goes Mexico City, HASHI Gallery in cooperation ‘SPHERE Salón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo II' _ ‘Global Art Project’
2023 “undress me my little B U D D H A”, goes Korea, IPO alternative art space, Seoul _ ‘Global Art Project’
“nomansland.academy”, Mexico City, SPHERE Salón Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo' _ ‘Global Art Project’
2022 “nomansland.academy”, goes Korea, IPO alternative art space, Seoul _ ‘Global Art Project’
“HIDDEN _ Messages” goes Mexico, HASHI Gallery, Mexico City _ ‘Global Art Project’
2021 “HIDDEN _ Messages” goes Sweden, AllArtNow, Stockholm _ ‘Global Art Project’
2020 “HIDDEN _ Messages” a ‘Global Art Project’ starts in Cannes, France
2019 ‘GMT’ + goes Korea _ “Light, Art, Humanity“, [Daegu Art Factory] Global Art Project, Republic of Korea _ Multimedia Installation
"Mombasa Shipping Project _ Vol. VI“, Schloss Mitsuko, Thürkow _ Multimedia Installation
"Mombasa Shipping Project _ Vol. V“, Galerie Peter Tedden & Matthias Erntges, Kranhalle Oberhausen _ Multimedia Installation
„Cubes & Boxes“ Schloss Mitsuko, Thürkow, RAUM _ fuer _ RAUM _ ‘Participation Art Project’
2017 "URBAN & Scapes", Matthias Erntges Galerie, Düsseldorf _ Installation
2016 "Khun Load", Museum Kloster Kamp, Kamp Lintfort _ Installation
2015 "LET_IT_BE", Weithorn Galerie, Düsseldorf _ Photography
2014 "Khun Load", Gallery Nectar, Tbilisi, Georgia _ Installation
"Mombasa Shipping Project_Vol. IV" / "Light Box Archive_Vol. II", Kulturforum in Herz Jesu, Köln _ Multimedia Installation
2013 "Mombasa Shipping Project_Vol. III", Kunstverein Langenfeld _ Installation
“Light Box Archive Vol. I” / „Transition“ a Participation Art Project by Rainer Junghanns with Martti Aiha and Tobias Grewe, Forum Box Helsinki, Fin _ Multimedia Installation
„GMT + Container“ Blaue Nacht Nürnberg _ Multimedia Installation
2012 „GMT + the Voyage in Sequences“ VideoBardo, Buenos Aires, Arg _ Video
2011 „GMT +“ / „Mombasa Shipping Project Vol. I“ LVR-LandesMuseum Bonn _ Multimedia Installation
„Mombasa Shipping Project Vol. II“ / „Mothership“ Kunstverein Ulm _ Multimedia Installation
2010 Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag, Netherlands _ Photography
2008 Art Dubai by Galerie Thomas, Munich _ Photography
2007 „New Places“ Kunstmuseum Baden, Solingen _ Installation
2006 „Global Move“, PAN kunstforum niederrhein, Emmerich _ Installation
2005 „New Places_Presentation“, Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen
„De La Terre”, Goethe-Institut Bordeaux, France _ Installation
“Consequences”, Centre of Contemporary Art Christchurch, NZ _ Installation
2004 „Trans & Form“, Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg _ Installation
„New Table Groups“ Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte München _ Installation
„Zeitsammler“ Marler Media Art Prize Exhibition, Museum Glaskasten Marl _ Video
„Zeitsammler“ Kunsthalle Bremen _ Video (Group)
2003 „New Table Groups“, Städtische Galerie, Iserlohn _ Installation
2002 „Trans & Form“, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin _ Multimedia Installation
„Trans & Form“, Haus der Kunst der Stadt Brünn, Czech Republic _ Installation
1999 “Border & Line”, Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, NZ _ Installation
1997 „Zeichnungen“, Museum Wilhemsburg, Schmalkalden _ Drawings
1996 “Zeichnungen” Municipal Gallery, Namur, Belgium _ Drawings & Installation
1995 Goethe Institute Palermo, Italy _ Drawings
1994 Palazzo Pinucci, Firenze, Italy _ Drawings & Installation
1993 Kultur und Informationszentrum der Republik Ungarn, Stuttgart _ Drawings
Städtische Galerie Schloss Oberhausen _ Drawings
1992 Xantus Museum Györ _ Drawings & Paintings
1991 Große Kunstausstellung NRW, Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (Group) _ Drawings
St. Vitus Münster, Mönchengladbach _ Drawings