Educational Programme
Glass-Friends
Architecture Class
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
September 2023 — June 2024
With High Holdings.

2023

Talk
Crepuscule
Silhdelta, Zurich, CH
24 June
With Benjamin Reynolds and Adam Jasper.

Exhibition
Crepuscule
Solo Show
Silhdelta, Zurich, CH
February – June
With Pa.lac.E.

Talk
Zenith Boil
At AA Bookshop, Architectural Association School of Architecture
25 January
With Nicholas Weltyk, Vera Buehlmann, Benjamin Reynolds.

2022

Exhibition
Azumi and Iori
Solo Show
Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, JP
5 June – 18 September
With Pa.lac.E.

Book
Zenith Boil
With Nicholas Weltyk, Co-Ed (New York)
Link

Talk
Vital Ghost Kyoto Arts Center, Kyoto, JP
With Rev. Taishi Kato and Sakai Moving Services.

Exhibition
Leaking Place Basel Pavillion
CIVIC, Institut Kunst HGK FHNW, Basel, CH
With Pa.lac.E.

Educational Programme
Take-away
Architectural Design Studio Royal College of Arts, London, UK
September 2021 – June 2022
With High Holdings.
Link

Talk
Take-Away Dreams
At Elles Publishing House
Cairo, EG
24 February
With writer Amr Ezzat and filmmaker Maha Maamoun (Kayfa Ta Editions).

Text
Medina, Valle. "Primeval Canvases"
In "Zenith Boil"
New York, US

Review
Buehlmann, Vera. "IMAGINES SPIRITUS (ASPER ET LENI)"
In "Zenith Boil"
New York, US

Review
Longino, Alan. "The Temper in August" in "Zenith Boil", New York, US.
In "Zenith Boil"
New York, US

2021

Book
Dom Gross
Five essays by Pa.LaC.E with a prologue "Vastly Modern" by Vera Buehlmann.
Self-published and handbound in Vienna, AT.

Publication
Azumi and Iori. (Triptych)
In "The Lake from the Louvres" record by composer James Rushford. Publisher: Shelter Press, FR
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Performance
Pastoral Complex
Venice Biennale, IT
24 June
With writer Zairong Xiang.

Exhibition
Pastoral Complex
Solo Show
La Becque, La Tour-de-Peilz, CH
5 June – 5 July
With Pa.lac.E. and contributions by Daisy Lafarge, Ania Marincek and Dong Young Lee.
Link

Exhibition
In Ballast in "Grandfather’s Axe"
Group Show
Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, CH
10 October – 15 November
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Educational Programme
Melee
Architectural Design Studio
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
September 2020 – June 2021
With High Holdings.
Link

2020

Talk
OPTI–LAX
Part of the panel "Intimate Inhabiting"
ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, CH
15 January
With Katja Novitskova, Jorge Orozco, Yngve Holen. Curated by An Mihye.

Educational Programme
Sight/Seeing
Architectural Design Studio
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
September 2019 – June 2020
With High Holdings.
Link

2019

Talk
Zenith Boil
At "Sophistication" talk series
Vienna University of Technology, AT
With Pa.lac.E.
15 November

Exhibition
Lever et courcher
In "Chambord Inachevé"
Château de Chambord, FR
19 May – 15 September
With Dominique Perrault (Curator).

Educational Programme
CHRONOCOPIA
Architectural Design Studio
Royal College of Arts, London, UK
September 2018 – June 2019
With High Holdings.
Link

Educational Programme
Gearing
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
March – June
With Dom Gross.
Link

Talk
The Conjurer and the Seer
At "Constructing Engaged Practice" series
Columbia University, GSAPP, New York, US
29 March
With Professor Juan Herreros.
Link

Exhibition
Highest Good
Solo Show
MAGAZIN, Vienna, AT
07 December – 01 February With Pa.lac.E. Link

Educational Programme
Levitation
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
October – January
With Dom Gross.
Link

Exhibition
Documents to Come
In the Spanish Biennale of Architecture
La Arquería, Madrid, ES
22 January
With Pa.lac.E.

Talk
Constructing Engaged Practice
For GSAPP Podcast series.
New York, US
22 January
With GSAPP Communications.
Link

Talk
Doing as You Must
Artist talk on customary practices.
MAGAZIN, Vienna, AT
18 January
With Alexi Kukuljevic, Klaus-Peter Speidel, Marlies Wirth nd Benjamin Reynolds.
Link

2018

Exhibition
Drawing Rights
In "Trade Markings". Frontier Imaginaries No. 5. Curated by Vivian Ziherl i.c.w. Charles Esche and Annie Fletcher.
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL
04 April – 01 July
With Richard Bell (with As Long As It Takes), Marcel van den Berg, Blade, Alice Creischer, Bonita Ely, Ho Rui An, Gordon Hookey, Patricia Kaersenhout, Karrabing Film Collective, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Tom Nicholson, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Rachel O'Reilly (with Pa.LaC.E Valle Medina & Benjamin Reynolds), Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Rammellzee, Farida Sedoc, The Otolith Group, Erwin Thomasse, Dondi White and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe.
Link Link

Educational Programme
Success
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
March – June
With Dom Gross.
Link

Performance
The Mount St. Helens of Trying
At "Universität der Künste"
Berlin, DE
04 June
With Pa.lac.E.

Talk
Pulverisation
At Architectural Association School of Architecture
London, UK
02 May
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Educational Programme
Ĵʊ˅Ȝɲ1ℓɨΔ
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
October – January
With Dom Gross.
Link

2017

Talk
Higher Noir
In "The Very Many and the Big Plenty: Quantity and the Precious"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
18 December
With Pa.lac.E.

Commission
Crevasses
Bibliothek Andreas Zuest, Oberegg, CH
November
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Book Launch
Paris Hermitage
At AA Bookshop, Architectural Association School of Architecture
London, UK
26 April
With With Pa.lac.E. and Nicholas Weltyk, Co-Ed (New York).
Link
Link

Educational Programme
No Ghost
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
Vienna University of Technology, AT
March – June
With Dom Gross.
Link

Educational Programme
Spa in Nature
At Lixil Inc., Hokkaido, JP
with Vienna University of Technology, AT
December 2016 – March 2017

Exhibition
L'Espace du Temps
OMI International Arts Center, New York, US
27 January – 12 March
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

2016

Exhibition
The Gas Imaginary, Part Two
In "Before and After Origins". Curated by Vivian Ziherl, Frontier Imaginaries.
Al-Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, IL
06 October – 31 October
With Rachel O'Reilly, Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds and Rodrigo Hernandez. And: Bisan Abu Eisheh, Jawad Al Malhi, Richard Bell, Benji Boyadgian, Megan Cope, Alice Creischer, Decolonizing Art Architecture Residency, Aiman Halabi, Gordon Hookey, Saba Innab, Yazan Khalili, Yasser Khangar, Karrabing Film Collective, Jumana Manna, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Randa Mdah, Muhammad Mughrabi, NGO (icw Dineo Seshe Bopape, Donna Kukama, George Mahashe & Sinethemba Twalo), Tom Nicholson, Christian Nyampeta, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Shada Safadeh, Wael Tarabieh, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, and Sawangwongse Yawnghwe.
Link
Link

Publication
New Value
In "After Belonging". Lars Mueller Publishers.
With Lluis Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio G. Galan, Carlos Minguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier (eds.)
Link

Exhibition
New Value
In "Oslo Architecture Triennale". Curated by After Belonging Agency.
Oslo, NO
08 September – 27 November
With Adrian Lahoud, Andres Jaque/Office for Political Innovation, Bouchra KhaliliCenter for Political Beauty, Daniel Fernandez Pascual & Alon Schwabe, Coralie Gourguechon, Design Earth, Einar Sneve Martinussen & Jørn Knutsen, Enorme Estudio, Femke Herregraven, FFB, Folder, Frida Escobedo & Guillermo Ruiz de Teresa, Jill Magid, Kadambari Baxi, Janette Kim, Meg McLagan, David Schiminovich & Mark Wasiuta, Kër Thiossane with Amadou Kane Sy, Khaled Malas, Laura Kurgan, Juan Saldarriaga & Angelika Rettberg, L.E.FT & Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Luis Callejas & Charlotte Hansson, Martha Rosler & Pelin Tan, Martti Kalliala, Nora Akawi, Nina V. Kolowratnik, Johannes Pointl & Eduardo Rega, OMA & Bengler, Pa.LaC.E, Paulo Tavares, Paulo Moreira, Ana Naomi de Sousa & Pétur Waldorff, ROTOR, estudio SIC | VIC, Sputniko!l, Supersudaca, Superunion, Unfold.
Link

Exhibition
Things that Haven't Happened Yet
Koneen Saatio Foundation, FI
September – October
With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Exhibition
The Gas Imaginary, Part Two
In "No Longer at Ease" Curated by Vivian Ziherl, Frontier Imaginaries.
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
14 May – 09 July
With Megan Cope, Alice Creischer, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Juan Davila, Demian DinéYazhi’, Bonita Ely, An Ho Rui, Gordon Hookey, Claire Humphreys, Karrabing Film Collective, Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, Helmut Newton, Tom Nicholson, North Stradbroke Island Historical Museum, Kevin O'Brien, Rachel O'Reilly (w PA/LA/CE Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds; and artist Rodrigo Hernandez), Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Ryan Presley, Real Estate Maps of the John Oxley Library, Shell Film Unit Australia, Virtual Songlines, Sawangwongse Yawnghwe.
Link Link

Exhibition
Studies on Freedom
Supported by the The Danish Arts Foundation.
Can Lis, Mallorca, ES
June
Link

Exhibition
Al qalīy
Solo Show
Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, CH
May – July With Pa.lac.E.
Link

Educational Programme
Comfort and Lightness
At Lixil Inc., Hokkaido, JP
with D-ARCH, Applied Virtuality Laboratory, ETH Zurich, CH
December 2015 – March 2016

2015

Publication
Architecture from the CPU
A Conversation with Philippe Morel
EP II, Sternberg Press (Alex Coles, Eds.)
With Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds (authors) and Philippe Morel (interviewee).
Link
Link

Publication
Paris Hermitage
In vol. 100 of “THE JAPAN ARCHITECT” magazine
Tokyo, JP
Link

Publication
Paris Hermitage
In December 2015 issue of “SHINKENCHIKU” magazine
Tokyo, JP
Link

Talk
Pulverization: Paris Hermitage
In "Konstruktion eines Argumentes". The Computational Object
At "Department for Architectural Theory and Philosophy of Technics"
27 October, 6 – 7 pm
With Prof. Vera Buehlmann.
Link

Award
1st Prize Central Glass International Competition
At Tokyo International Forum
Tokyo, JP
17th October
With Riken Yamamoto, Reiichi Okamoto, Taro Ashihara, Teruo Kobayashi, Hiroshi Naito, Kengo Kuma, Satoshi Takayama, Shozo Baba.
Link

Educational Programme
Art School Identities
ECAL University of Art and Design Lausanne, CH
07 – 11 September
With Jonas Berthod, Davide Fornari, Roland Frueh, Christoph Knoth, Robert Lzicar, Nina Paim & Corinne Gisel, François Rappo, Aleksandra Santoemma, Alexandre Oliveira, Ana Carolina Shiaku, Anaïs Bloch, Barbara Acevedo Strange, Benjamin Reynolds, Bjorn Giesecke, Daria Kiseleva, Fosca Salvi, Federica Sosta, Frederik Mahler-Andersen, Inken Zierenberg, Isabel Seiffert, Kaja Kusztra, Matylda Krzykowski, Nicolas Polli, Rasmus Schønning, Raya Stefanova, Sebastian Berns, Simon Mager, Valle Medina, Vanja Jelic.
Link

Publication
YATA
In ECOCORE IV The G ( ) D Issue. Alessandro Bava (Ed.)
With Anne De Vries, Luis Miguel Bendaña+Sam Lipp, Cedric Fargues, Pablo Larios, Harry Burke, Billy Rennekamp, Josh Bitelli, Alex Mackin Dolan, Caspar Jade Heinmann, Dora Budor, Eric Veit, Alexander May, Albin Werle, Jacopo Mazzetti, Juliette Bonneviot, Katja Novitskova, Samia Mirza, Aaron McLaughlin, Anna Mikkola, Rosa Aiello, Octave Perrault, Greg Ponchak, Jack Self, Oskar Kahn, Alessandro Bava, Sydney Shen.
Link
Link

Exhibition
Supercomputer
In "Feelers"
Boston Center for the Arts, US
9 October – 20 December
Link

Exhibition
Paris Hermitage
In "A Call For Drawings". Curated by: Klaas Hoek
Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK & Basis voor Actuele Kunst (BAK), Utrecht, NL
24 June – 12 July & Autumn
With Pieter Adriaans, Gemma Anderson, Jack Bangerter, Koštana Banović, Andrew Barber, Peter Baren, Sara Berman, Maura Biava, Peter Bowyer, Paul Buchanan, Natalia Calderon, Hyunju Chung, Alexander Costello, Penny Demertzi, Claire Dorsett, Ronit Eden, Stephen Farthing, Emma Febvre-Richards, Helen Frik, Nikolaus Gansterer, Mikel van Gelderen, Lotte van Geijn & Sue van Geijn, Maximilian Goldfarb, Niels Goos, David Griffin, Geoffrey Harrison, Jutta Herden, Helena Hernandez, Edward Hillel, Hiroomi Horiuchi, Anna Ioannidi, Eun-Hyung Kim, Jae-Kyung Kim, Yoonhee Kim, Andreas Kopp, Nektaria Lampitsi, Heleen Langkamp, Elvira Mambetisaeva, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen, Valle Medina & Benjamin Reynolds, Alan Montgomery, Elena Nemkova, Emanuele Ortoleva, Reinoud Oudshoorn, Dusko Pavlovic, Alejandro Ramirez, Joke Robaard & Hajo de Reijger, Aubrecht Ruben, Mark Rutkoski, Kristin Sigurdardottir, Floris Solleveld, Marina Stavrou, Ivan Suletic, Marianne Theunissen, David Tomas, Nathan Thompson, Raul Valverde, Hèctor Vargas, Lieselot Versteeg, Vitalist Cuisine, Ivana Wingham, Tessa Whitehead & Heino Schmid, and Erin Woodbrey.
Link
Link

Exhibition
The Weight of the Wall
Real Casa de la Moneda, Segovia, ES
14 Dec 2015 – 31 Jan
With UNESCO International and IE University

Award
Light of Ancestral Seas
Special mention. LAMP International Prize
Barcelona, ES

Talk
Pulverization, Treasure Order, Rarity
In "Artificial Intelligence: The end of intelligence and architecture as we know them"
Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture Paris-Malaquais, FR
8 – 9 April

Valle Medina's work is formed at the intersection of lyrical substances and psychic limits.

She is based between Basel and London.

Often her work addresses collaborative estrangement, and deprival as a productive strategy.

Recent work has explored the phenomena of pulverisation as the reinvention of contemporary life-rhythms with projects such as Paris Hermitage, as well as the social and bodily effects of oxygen deprivation (hypoxia) in space with the recently built project Pastoral Complex.

Valle has been an artist-in-residence at La Becque (CH), the OMI International Center for The Arts in New York (US), the Andreas Züst Library, Oberegg (CH) and the Kyoto Arts Centre (JP). She has received awards from the Koneen Säätiö Foundation (FI), the Danish Arts Foundation (DK), the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (UK) and the Stiftung für Architektur Geisendorf (CH).

Valle is a recipient the 50th annual Shinkenchiku/Central Glass Award in Tokyo, among other international prizes. Her work has been previously shown at Silh Delta Zurich (CH), the Kyoto Arts Centre (JP), ICA (UK), Van Abbemuseum (NL), the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (ES), the Boston Centre for the Arts (US), Basis voor Actuele Kunst – BAK (NL) and the Architecture Foundation (London) and has been published widely including Volume (Amsterdam), EP with Sternberg Press (Berlin), Ecocore (London), ED (Los Angeles) and Spéciale’Z (Paris). Her work lives in several private collections such as the Permanent Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She has lectured at Columbia University in New York, ETH Zürich D-ARCH, UdK Berlin and the Architectural Association in London.

Her first major monograph —Paris Hermitage— was released in 2017, and the book —Zenith Boil— was completed in 2023 both with Cooperative Editions (New York).

She is a former Geisendorf fellow at the ETH Zürich D-ARCH, where she graduated summa cum laude from its Laboratory for Applied Virtuality, and was a fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie (NL).

Valle is the co-founder of the studio Pa.LaC.E. She co-leds the architecture class High Holdings at the Royal College of Arts in London to respond to the gradual estrangement of the world around us by examining the therapeutic and spiritual qualities of space. It operates by (re-)developing sensibilities within the vast amounts of information that our civilisation is giving birth to.

Previously, Valle led the group Dom Gross at the Institute for Theory of Architecture and Philosophy of Technics in Vienna.

For collaborations, CV and portfolio: [email protected]

© 2024 Valle Medina and Pa.LaC.E.
Website: Nicholas Weltyk