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”.
Please feel free to contact me at julianrabus@alum.calarts.edu
Berlin University of the Arts
Narrative Film / Thomas Arslan
2016 - 2021Akademie 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
2024
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
2024
“More Strange Things”, Silent Green, Berlin
2023
“Dialog der Künste”, Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, München
2023
Renconctres Internationales Paris/Berlin
CWB Paris
2023
“Red Like the Sea”
Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2023
“Schöne Welt wo bist du”
Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Bamberg
2023
Screening Program
Akademie Galerie, Nürnberg
2023
“Akascope 2”
Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2023
“50th Happenings” Taper Courtyard, Los Angeles
2023
“thurs.night” F200, CalArts, Los Angeles
2023
“When If Not Now?” MaHalla, Berlin
“Reconstructions” Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
2022
“Ten Minutes Older” AKT Kunstverein Amberg
2022
“B3 Biennial of the Moving Image” Frankfurt am Main
2022
“Debütant:innen” Villa Stuck, München
2022
“Graduation Show” AdBK Munich
2022
“Fresco” Akademie der Bildenden Künste
2022
“Rencontres Internationales” HKW Berlin
2022
“Lassitude” Goethe-Institut Paris
2022
“Rencontres Internationales Paris” Louvre Museum Auditorium
2021
“4. Biennale für Videokunst” Galerie der Künstler, München
2021
“Künstliche Paradiese” Kunstverein Leipzig
2020
Competition (short), Biberacher Filmfestspiele
2020
“Palazzo” Blitz Club München (Deutsches Museum)
“Storyboard” @ ille Galerie #9, München
2020
“ZOO” HfG am ZKM Karlsruhe
2019
“Summertime Sadness” Galerie Foe, München
2019
“Nackte Singularitäten” Kösk München
2019
“Ein paar Tage nach der Welt” Akademiegalerie, München
2018
“Almresidency” Galerie Dismantle, München
2018
“Summer Show” Nicole Gnesa Galerie, München
2018
“Plasmonics” Kunstarkaden München
2018
“Labor” Pavillion Biberach
2018
“Street” Adac München
2018
“Utopium” Akademie der Bildenden Künste München
2017
“Super Realität” Akademiegalerie München
2017
“Kopfkino” Wasserturm Dachau
2024
Pro Award
International Film Festival Rotterdam
2024
Cutting Edge Talent Camp
Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
2023
Happenings Project Funding
CalArts, Los Angeles
2022
Scholarship for MFA Film Directing
CalArts, Los Angeles
2022
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)
2018
Almresidency Oberkammerloh, Bayern
2017
Summer Academy Salzburg with Yorgos Sapountzis
2017
Scholarship of the international Summer Academy Venice
für den Inhalt nach §5 TMG verantwortlich: Julian Rabus, Tempelhofer Damm 151, 12099 Berlin