About
Julian Rabus is a Swiss-German artist based in Berlin. He began his career in filmmaking as an assistant director and cameraman, before receiving his MFA with honors from Academy of Fine Arts Munich in 2022. He studied with filmmaker James Benning at California Institute of the Arts, with Julian Rosefeldt (Academy of Fine Arts Munich) and Thomas Arslan (Berlin University of the Arts).
He directs and produces narrative works and debuts in 2025 with his first feature film “Sunstrokes”.
Foto: Mara Pollak
Please feel free to contact me at julianrabus@alum.calarts.edu
currentlyworking as tutor at the UdK Film Institute, Medienhaus Berlin
Berlin University of the Arts
Narrative Film / Thomas Arslan
2016 - 2022Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
Academy of Fine Arts Munich
Media Art / Julian Rosefeldt, graduated with honors
Exchange student in MFA Film Directing / James Benning
2019 - 2020 Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (HfG)
Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design
Media Art / Serpil Turhan
2025
Kurzfilmtag, Schwarzes Schaf, Dresden
2024
Shortcuts Berlin, Madame Claude
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
“More Strange Things”, Silent Green, Berlin
2023
“Dialog der Künste”, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München
Renconctres Internationales Paris/Berlin
CWB Paris
“Red Like the Sea”
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
“Schöne Welt wo bist du”
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Bamberg
Screening Program
Akademie Galerie, Nürnberg
“Akascope 2”
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
“50th Happenings” Taper Courtyard, Los Angeles
“thurs.night” F200, CalArts, Los Angeles
“When If Not Now?” MaHalla, Berlin
2022
“Reconstructions” Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
“Ten Minutes Older” AKT Kunstverein Amberg
“B3 Biennial of the Moving Image” Frankfurt am Main
“Debütant:innen” Villa Stuck, München
“Graduation Show” AdBK Munich
“Fresco” Akademie der Bildenden Künste
“Rencontres Internationales” HKW Berlin
“Lassitude” Goethe-Institut Paris
“Rencontres Internationales Paris” Louvre Museum Auditorium
2021
“4. Biennale für Videokunst” Galerie der Künstler, München
“Künstliche Paradiese” Kunstverein Leipzig
2020
Competition (short), Biberacher Filmfestspiele
“Palazzo” Blitz Club München (Deutsches Museum)
“Storyboard” @ ille Galerie #9, München
“ZOO” HfG am ZKM Karlsruhe
2019
“Summertime Sadness” Galerie Foe, München
“Nackte Singularitäten” Kösk München
“Ein paar Tage nach der Welt” Akademiegalerie, München
2018
“Almresidency” Galerie Dismantle, München
“Summer Show” Nicole Gnesa Galerie, München
“Plasmonics” Kunstarkaden München
“Labor” Pavillion Biberach
“Street” Adac München
“Utopium” Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2017
“Super Realität” Akademiegalerie München
“Kopfkino” Wasserturm Dachau
2024
Pro Award
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Cutting Edge Talent Camp
Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
2023
Happenings Project Funding
CalArts, Los Angeles
2022
Scholarship for MFA Film Directing
CalArts, Los Angeles
First Price of Graduation Show
Akademie-Verein, Munich
2021
Scholarship of UdK “Deutschlandstipendium”
Scholarship Program "junge Kunst und neue Wege"
2020
“Meisterschüler” of Julian Rosefeldt
2019
Media Art Scholarship at HfG Karlsruhe
2018
First Prize for “Utopium” by Akademievereins (AdBK)
Almresidency Oberkammerloh, Bayern
2017
Summer Academy Salzburg with Yorgos Sapountzis
Scholarship of the international Summer Academy Venice
für den Inhalt nach §5 TMG verantwortlich: Julian Rabus, Tempelhofer Damm 151, 12099 Berlin