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10/02/26 - DON'T MISS THE FRED RAPID EXHIBITION / ALBUMRELEASE / LIVESHOW
NEXT FRIDAY AT ZERO FOLD, GLADBACHERSTR. 50, COLOGNE
SEE THE PICTURE I SHOT FOR THE FRED RAPID CATALOGUE HERE!
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10/02/22 - NEW! UPCOMING EXHIBITION AND FRED RAPID LIVESHOW/ALBUM/BOOK RELEASE AT
ZERO FOLD, COLOGNE: OPENING FRIDAY, 05.03.10, 8 PM,
EXHIBITION 05.03. – 13.03.2010
AUTOCENTER, BERLIN: OPENING FRIDAY, 09.04.2010, 8 PM,
EXHIBITION 09.02. – 11.04.2010
"Haute Areal releases the album „Glassworks“ by Fred Rapid in cooperation with the art book publisher Strzelecki Books.
The music was produced only with an anachronistic groovebox and recorded live, which means all parameters like filter positions or effects were edited during the recording process and all programmed patterns were triggered and edited live. The instrumentals were not put together on a computer, but created with hardware and recorded in one piece.
To release this album the label decided to try something new. While the first single was released as a T-Shirt with download-code, Haute Areal releases the album as a book, an art catalogue. Several artists interpreted the music in a medium of their choice, like Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” the other way round. The only obligation was to entitle the contributed work with one of the song titles of the album. All works of the artists are displayed in the catalogue, which includes a code to download the whole Fred Rapid album (320 kbit/mp3) and a 7” single (crystal vinyl). It is of course also possible to buy the music without catalogue at download shops, but there is no conventional medium like CD or LP."
with:
Tim Berresheim, Bernadette Blendl, Theo Boettger, Hannes Broecker, Jan Brokof, Markus Buddenbrock, Sebastian Gögel, Henriette Grahnert, Owen Gump, Ulrich Hakel, Andreas Hildebrandt, Gregor Hildebrandt, Gunilla Jähnichen, Iris Kettner, Alicja Kwade, Briac Lepretre, Phillip Maiwald, Christof Mascher, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Anne Neukamp, Ulrich Pester, Malwine Rafalski, Renaud Regnery, Jenny Rosemeyer, Jürgen Schwämmle, Vreni Spieser, Juliane Walther, Gudrun Wernet, Johannes Wohnseifer.
curated by Fred Rapid & Carmen Strzelecki
VISIT STRZELECKIBOOKS HERE
VISIT THE FRED RAPID WEBSITE HERE
VISIT THE ZEROFOLD WEBSITE HERE
VISIT THE AUTOCENTER WEBSITE HERE
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10/02/03 - INTERVIEW WITH MEDIUM MAGAZINE
Congratulations again on being a winner in the CGP.
What are you working on next?
I am planning to realise a project in Istanbul about living in Gececondus, which is a Turkish word meaning a house put up quickly without proper permissions - "placed (built) overnight". In common usage, it refers to the low cost apartment buildings or houses that were constructed in a very short time by people migrating from rural areas to the outskirts of the large cities. Such buildings may be constructed without going through the necessary procedures required for construction, such as acquiring building permits, and can be very densely populated. Half the residents of Istanbul - perhaps six million people - dwell in gecekondu homes. This areas leaded to the flooding in Istanbul last year. I am still interested in working on ecological topics, because that touches my heart deeply.
How has your working practice developed since you graduated?
I am working a lot to publish my work in every way. Before I graduated, I did not even thought about this aspect taking so much of my time. Until I am starting my next big project, I'm working for my own and for magazines. I try to photograph things that have nothing to do with traditional documentary photography, I am building some installations for my own, try new ways, read a lot photography theory. And I learned to use that little spare time I have to reach my goals - I cannot live from photography yet, so I'm working on weekdays and do my own work at night or at the weekend. That demands a lot of energy and discipline to push things forward.
Which creative projects/movements/productions in your part of the world are you excited about at the moment?
I love furniture design which is built ecologically, using recycled goods. I cannot tell why, but I am crazy about provisorily architecture - buildings that grow naturally, which are individual and not customized. This is an important aspect of my work, too. Most of my best friends are photographers, documentary filmers or landscape architects, my parents live in a low-energy wooden house, my boyfriend is an global social worker, that influenced and still influences and inspires me a lot.
What impact, if any, do you think competitions can have on a creative person's work and career?
I think competitions are a wonderful instrument to feel that you're on the right way with that what you're doing and can give some support to get more attention as an artist. But I try not to be influenced by a style that is en vogue at this time, because I think I might win a competition.
Where can we see more of your work?
www.malwinerafalski.com
VISIT THE MEDIUM MAGAZINE HERE
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10/01/17 - I'M WINNER OF THE CREATIVE GRADUATE PRIZE 2009
IN THE CATEGORY STATIC ART
"Societás and Medium Magazine are pleased to announce the winners of the 5th edition of the Creative Graduate Prize. Founded in 2005 and open to graduates of the visual arts globally, the prize brings the spotlight to the best emerging young artists across all genres of fine art, including painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, installation and short film.
The Creative Graduate Prize 2009 took the theme of ‘Change’ and attracted the highest number of entries in the prize’s history. Due to both the volume and quality of the prize entries selecting the nominees took a month longer than usual.
The prize jury comprised innovators from the international creative industries including contemporary artists Stuart Semple, Tessa Farmer, Lone Sigurdsson and Eileen Botsford, photographer Ellis Scott, Design Laboratory director Yann Mathias, as well as the Creative Graduate Prize founding directors Melissa Sterry of Societás and Laurie Cansfield of Medium Magazine.
The Creative Graduate Prize 2009 had three prize categories: Static Art – open to painters, photographers and illustrators; Moving Art – open to animators, short film makers and performance artists; Installation Art - open to sculptors and spatial artists."
SEE THE WINNERS OF ALL CATEGORIES HERE
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09/12/16 - YOGA JOURNAL OUT ON MONDAY, 21ST DECEMBER!
MY WORK HOLON IS PUBLISHED IN THE MAGAZINE - CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE HERE
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09/11/25 - FLUTER MAGAZINE IS GOING TO PUBLISH HOLON
CHECK OUT THE WEBSITE ON 1st DECEMBER!
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09/11/25 - I'M A NOMINEE OF THE CREATIVE GRADUATE PRIZE!
..WHICH DID NOT KNOW AND RECOGNIZED TODAY, WHAT A SURPRISE!
VISIT THE SITE OF THE MEDIUM MAGAZINE HERE
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09/11/25 - HOLON IS PUBLISHED IN THE ABSEITS MAGAZINE
LOTS OF INSPIRING AND SURPRISING NEWS THESE DAYS..
SEE THE MAGAZINE HERE
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09/11/24 - GREENPEACE MAGAZINE 01/2010 OUT NOW!
I PHOTOGRAPHED A COMMUNITY WHICH IS RUNNING NON-COMMERCIAL FARMING
SEE THE PICTURES HERE
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09/08/09 - EXHIBITION
LEBEN LIEBEN LEIDEN
FRAUENBILDER JUNGER KÜNSTLERINNEN
KUNSTVEREIN CELLE/ 04.06.2010 - 04.08.2010
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09/07/15 - BOOK PRESENTATION / ERSTWERK WETTBEWERB
MY BOOK HOLON WILL BE PRESENTED AT THE FRANKFURTER BUCHMESSE / 14.-18.10.2009
VISIT INSTITUT FÜR BUCHGESTALTUNG
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09/06/28 - SAVE THE DATE!
HOLON EXHIBITION
10 - 12th JULY
OPENING 10th / 18h
FH BIELELFELD / LAMPINGSTR. 3 / 33615 BIELEFELD
SEE THE PICTURES HERE
READ ABOUT HOLON HERE
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09/06/27 - NEW WEBSITE ONLINE!
DURING COLOR IMAGING MY DIPLOMA AND DESIGNING THE NEW BOOK, I RELAUNCHED THIS NEW WEBSITE.
I ALSO STARTED A NEW SECTION WITH MONTHLY PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS.
YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST RESULTS HERE
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09/04/01 - I AM ON ROAD FOR MY NEW PROJECT HOLON
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan- like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God, and have somewhat hastily concluded that it is the chief end of man here to "glorify God and enjoy him forever."
H.D. Thoreau, Walden