Walter Solon [1992, Sao Paulo, Brazil]  is an artist, filmmaker, writer and singer, dealing with issues of representation, appropriation, identity and narrative in hybrid media across film, performance, writing, installation, music and photography. He  studied at Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany and Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA.

His work has been shown at Art Sonje Center, South Korea; Goethe Institut Beijing, China; Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany; and the 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, Greece, among others. He received the DAAD prize and participated in residencies in Bangalore, India and Essen, Germany.


Education

2014-23  Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany (MFA in Media and Fine Arts)
2017 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA (Art MFA)
2018-19 Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Guest at Class Gonzalez-Foerster)
2010-14 University of São Paulo, Brazil (Bachelor of Social Sciences)
2014 Sciences Po Paris, France (Social Sciences, French Literature)
2012 - 2013 University of Cologne, Germany (German Literature)


Awards

2023 Forecast Forum - Nominee of Roee Rosen
2019 Kunststiftung NRW - Junge Szene Grant
2019 Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia - Export Grant
2019 Goethe-Institut Sao Paulo, Residency Grant
2017 Ministry of Culture and Science of North Rhine-Westphalia - Export Grant
2017 Academy of the Arts of the World - Grant Program
2016 Prize for Young Filmmakers at the Pitch Competition DokFest Munich, awarded by the Haus des Dokumentarfilms
2016 KHM-Scholarship of the Circle of Friends of the Academy of Media Arts
2016 DAAD Prize
2016 DAAD Post-Graduate Scholarship in Art, Film and Design


Residencies & Fellowships

2022 LABA Laboratory for Jewish Culture, Berlin, Germany
2021 Center for Literature, Annette von Droste zu Hülshoff-Stiftung, Münster, Germany
2020 Pivô Research, São Paulo, Brazil
2020 PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2020 Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy
2018 bangaloREsidency@Jaaga, Goethe-Institut Bangalore, India
2017 Warehouse, digital residency
2017 PACT Zollverein, Essen, Germany
2017 Clusterhaus, Cologne, Germany
2016 Palazzo Ricci, Montepulciano, Italy


Selected group shows/screenings/talks

2023 JUNCTION, nhow, Berlin, Germany
2022 BROKEN/LABA, CLB Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2022 PUBLIC FICTIONS, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany 2022 NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
2021 38th KASSEL DOCUMENTARY AND VIDEO FESTIVAL, Kassel, Germany
2020 OPEN DESKTOP, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
2020 VIDEO WORKS, Situation Kunst, Bochum, Germany
2019 NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL #2 SITUATING, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2019 NEW ALPHABET SCHOOL #1 TRANSLATING, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2019 LOWTEXT: FOOTNOTES, Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
2019 RADICAL FILM NETWORK, Silent Green, Berlin, Germany
2018 A BETTER VERSION OF YOU, Goethe-Institut, Beijing, China
2018 EVA15 - EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO ART EXHIBITION, Bangkok, Thailand
2018 OBERHAUSEN SHORT-FILM FESTIVAL, Germany
2017 A BETTER VERSION OF YOU, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
2017 6TH THESSALONIKI BIENNALE OF CONTEMPORARY ART, Thessaloniki, Greece
2017 RUNDGANG, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2017 KURZFILMWANDERUNG, Graz, Austria
2017 ACHTBRÜCKEN. MUSIK FÜR KÖLN, Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany
2017 FAROFF ART FAIR, Film Program, Cologne, Germany
2017 VIDEONALE.PARCOURS, Kreuzung an St.Helena, Bonn, Germany
2016 PREISVERLEIHUNG DER FREUNDE DER KHM, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany
2016 KEUPSTRASSE MONUMENT COMPETITION, National Socialism Documentation Center, Cologne, Germany
2016 PALAZZO RICCI, Montepulciano, Italy
2016 RUNDGANG, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2016 CRAFTSMANSHIP THESE DAYS, University of the Arts, Utrecht, Netherlands 
2016 NRW COMPETITION, Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Münster, Germany
2016 URBAN STREET WALK, weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 DIGITAL BODIES, Center for Contemporary Art, Tibilisi, Georgia
2016 KINDLY DISINVITED, Academy Space, Cologne, Germany
2016 CAPTURING DANCE, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger, Berlin, Germany
2016 FAROFF ART FAIR, Film Program, Cologne, Germany
2015 MUSEUMNACHT, Glasmoog, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2015 RUNDGANG, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany
2015 JUNGES INTERNAT DER KÜNSTE DER WELT, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne, Germany 2014 ERFAHREN UND ERZÄHLEN, Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne, Germany


Publications

2022 PUBLIC FICTIONS, exhibition publication, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2022 REVISTA PIVÔ, magazine, Pivô, São Paulo, Brazil
2017 THE PUBLIC I, short story anthology, Chris Kraus and Annette Weisser workshop, Pasadena
2010 SEIVA E RISCO, short story anthology, Terracota Publishing, São Paulo


Collaborations

2023 Creative Assistant Director of Pia Marais for her feature film "Transamazonia" 

2019 Editor and writer for Yael Bartana's film "What If Women Ruled the World"

2019 Making-of for Yael Bartana's video "Redemption"

2019 Assistant Director for Shinpei Takeda's film "Apotacastasis"

2019 Script Consultant for Isabel Herguera's feature animation "Sultana's Dream"

2019 Producer for Jonathan Omer Mizrahi's film My Wife's Lucky Embers (WT)

2016 Research assistant to Yael Bartana for the project "What If Women Ruled the World"

2015 Research assistant at the Interdisciplinary Latin American Center, University of Bonn, research cluster Ethnicity, Belonging and Citizenship in Latin America

2014 Translator and assistant for Sand Hilal, Alessandro Petti (DAAR/Campus in Camps) and Grupo Contrafilé for the 31st Sao Paulo Art Biennial-commissioned book and installation "The Tree School"

2013 Assistant Director for Nurit Sharett's video installation "Counting the Stars"

2013 Assistant and Making-of Director for Yael Bartana's video "Inferno"