Raul Walch, Who Owns the Wind?, 2025, bamboo, printed fabric, stainless steel, 914 × 704 × 724 cm.
Raul Walch, Who Owns the Wind?, 2025, bamboo, printed fabric, stainless steel, 914 × 704 × 724 cm.
Raul Walch is a Berlin-based artist who primarily works in public space, often using everyday materials such as sails, flags, and kites.
The textile pavilion titled Who Owns the Wind? is the space designed for the audience to feel the wind, movement, and even the presence of birds. It also serves as an open workshop and a gathering space where visitors can engage with one another through kite flying and by observing the surrounding birdlife.
This work begins with a simple yet profound question: “Who controls the forces of nature, like the wind?” The artist envisions an environment where humans and other species can imaginatively and joyfully share the atmosphere itself.
The rooftop weather vane, inspired by the forms of birds found in the Nakdong Estuary, also serves as an indicator, visualizing wind and weather data. Built with sustainable materials, the structure becomes a communal space shaped by wind, people, and nature together.
Through this work, Walch invites us to reconsider how we coexist with the natural world.
