Short Bio
Keanu Sapadi studied from 2016 to 2023 at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. In 2022 he finished his diploma in the field of painting. In the following year until 2023 he studied and finished as Meisterschüler under Friederike Feldmann. In 2019 he branched out into artistic production and has worked with institutes like Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Embassy of Luxembourg, as well as culture collectives like Gesindel der Nacht and local artists.
Education and Work
2023 - dato Freelance Artist
2022 - 2023 Meisterschüler (Friederike Feldmann), KH Berlin Weissensee
2016 - 2022 Diplom - Freie Kunst: Malerei, KH Berlin Weissensee
2020 Erasmus at Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
2019 - dato IfA-Galerie, Berlin (Production)
2014 - 2016 Art History, Universität Köln
2013 - 2016 Max-Ernst-Museum, Brühl
2014 - 2016 Drawing Lessons (Ulrike Hagenkort)
2013 Abitur at Max-Ernst-Gymnasium, Brühl
2009 - 2013 Acting and Stage Design (Freimut Eschner)
Productions (Exhibitions)
2025
The Darkness is Coming (ii)
Kuration: Nina Plaskova, Keanu Sapadi
The Darkness Is Coming (i)Kuration: Nina Plaskova, Keanu Sapadi
Was bedeutet es für einen Ort, geliebt zu werden?Kuration: Hana Halilaj
Survival Kit – Between Us and History: The Hidden Archive
Kuration: Ken Aïcha Sy, Nikola Hartl
Once We Were Trees, Now We Are Birds
Kuration: Muhammad Salah Abdulaziz, Emrah Gökdemir, Anna Karpenko, Thibaut de Ruyter
Kuration: Meriem Berrada
2024
Joël Andrianomearisoa MEASURES LULLABIES AND WHISPERS
Kuration: Meriem Berrada und Alya Sebti
The Golden Spinning Wheel
Kuration: Clara Pistner
School of Casablanca
Kuration: Salma Lahlou, Krist Gruijthuijsen, Inka Gressel
Atem Stücke (Part 2)
Kuration: Marcelo Rezende und Bettina Korintenberg
2023
A Sacred Story At The Tree Of Life
Kuration: Memory Biwa, Robert Machiri, Jumoke Adeyanju, Nikola Hartl
Das Hohelied der Vögel
Kuration: Valerie Chartrain
Mapping the Air
Kuration: Chiara Bertola
Chains of Interest
Kuration: Inka Gressel & Susanne Weiß
Spheres of Interest
Kuration: Inka Gressel & Susanne Weiß
2022
Gods Moving in Places
Kuration: Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc
PALLAY PAMPA. Andine Kreuzungen
Kuration: Hatem Imam
2021
For the Phoenix to find its form in us Zu Restitution, Rehabilitierung und Entschädigung
Leitung: Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
Kuration: Elena Agudio, Arlette-Louise Ndakoze, Nora Razian, Rahul Gudipudi, Alya Sebti
Aufzeichnungen einer Seherin Andrea Acosta, Joseph Beuys, Anne Duk Hee Jordan, Sara Ouhaddou
Kuration: Susanne Weiß & Inka Gressel
La Escucha oder die Winde Berichte und Spuren aus dem Gran Chaco
Kuration: Andrea Fernández
2020
In the Presence/Absence of Mazen Kerbaj
Kuration: Hatem Imam
Ultrasanity Über Wahnsinn, Hygiene, Antipsychiatrie und Widerstand
Kuration: Elena Agudio, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Kelly Krugman
2019
Station Point Mit den Augen vermessen
Kuration: Omar Berreda
Neither on the Ground, nor in the Sky
Kuration: Nat Muller
Productions (Theatre)
2017 Stage Design & Poster, Antigone, Jean Anouilh, Kilometa Theater, Brühl
2013 Role: Hofnarr & Baum in Der gestiefelte Kater, L. Tieck, Brühl
2012 Role: Mackie Messer in Dreigroschenoper, B. Brecht, Brühl
2011 Stage Design und Poster, Kein Krieg in Troja, Jean Giraudoux, Brühl
Stage Design und Poster, Die Troerinnen Euripides, Brühl
2009 Role: Spekulant, Die hl. Johanna der Schlachthöfe, B. Brecht, Brühl