Val, Olaf

Val, Olaf

Teaching Staff for Special Tasks | Director Digipool – Digital Media Workshop

Olaf Val (born in Hanau in 1968) studied art in Kassel and completed his postgraduate studies at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. He has been exhibiting regularly in Germany and abroad since 1996, working as a freelance artist since 2003 and teaching as a lecturer since 2004. From 2012 to 2022, he was an active member of the board of the Kassel Kunstverein, for which he curated solo and group exhibitions, among other things. Since then, his artistic interest has shifted to ecological issues, which he increasingly pursues in the medium of sound art – with the aim of making a poetic appreciation of the environment tangible through sound.

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2009 Ich bin ein Anderes, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
2008 Monkey_Up, Plug In, Basel

Group exhibitions (selection)
2014 PARALLELS, KIBLIX, Maribor
2013 ZKM_Gameplay, ZKM, Karlsruhe

Curatorial work, Kasseler Kunstverein (selection)
2022 Artificial Ecologies, group exhibition
2019 WeTransform, group exhibition/participation project
2016 The Paradox of Knowing Universals, Ralf Baecker (solo exhibition)
2013 Hello World!, Aram Bartholl (solo exhibition)

Workshops (selection)
2024 RANGE Sound Festival, Kassel
2011 Play It Yourself, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005 Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art

Recent exhibitions
2025 Total Screen Time: BRAINROT, Panke Gallery, Berlin
2024 Erzählend (Narrating), Exhibition Space 387, Kassel
2021 Lichtewege (Paths of Light), Weinbergterrassen, Kassel