Ciarán Walsh is an artist and cultural manager based in Berlin, Germany. His artistic work explores place, memory, and transformation, and commonly utilises the spectral as a metaphoric tool of cultural exploration.

Walsh has show his work at numerous galleries and artspaces internations, including Kunsthalle Bratislava, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, MuHKA in Antwerp, and Ujazdowski Castle CCA in Warsaw. He produced two artists’ novellas Vortices and The Sickness utilising sci-fi and pulp fiction modes to generate textual artworks. Additionally he has undertaken curatorial, archival and editorial work on diverse visual arts and cultural projects, among them The Reading Room a project with manifestations in Berlin, Birmingham, Dublin and Paris. In parallel to this creative and curatorial work, Walsh is active in the fields of cultural management and arts administration: he previously worked at Esther Schipper gallery in Berlin, and currently works for the Embassy of Ireland in Germany as part of the core team delivering Zeitgeist Irland 24, a year-long programme of contemporary Irish arts in Germany.