
Valo Valentino | Hallen Festival Berlin
September 5 – 13, 2026
Valo Valentino (born as Valentino Biago Berndt) is a German-Mexican visual artist who investigates the physical materialisation of invisible sound.
His works occupy a space between painting, sculpture and sonic composition, transforming vibration into material memory. Drawing on the histories of abstraction, color theory and musical composition, Valentino treats frequency as a generative force. The resulting works are records of events: moments in which sound, matter and human perception become inseparable.
Valo (*1988 in Cuernavaca, Mexico; lives in Stuttgart) graduated in Sculpture from the Fine Art Academy in Stuttgart, DE, previously studying stone masonry and digital music production. His works have been exhibited at Villa Merkel, Untergrƶnigen Castle, and the Museum Stadt Esslingen, among other venues. Valo received the Werner Pokorny Prize in 2023.
Selection
| 2024 | The art is in the means (pure color, pure sound) (Orig.: Die Kunst steckt in den Mitteln), Adolf Hƶlzel Haus, Stuttgart, DE SOLO |
| 2023 | KUKAV (Kulturkasten), Animation, Installation, Tuttlingen, DE Two worlds meet Generation Ceo/Venture Women meet visual arts (Orig.: Zwei Welten begegnen sich , Generation Ceo/Venture Women treffen auf bildende Kunst), Container City, Stuttgart, DE Mineral watercolor: Artist residency in Jenesien, Hotel zum Hirschen, South Tirol at Bozen, IT Everyman’s Mask (Orig.: āJedermannsmaskeā), Auction at the European Stone-Festival Salzburg, AT |
| 2022 | Freezing Point, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE 60×60 International Film-Collage, Museum Bread and Art, Ulm, DE On the farewell of an oddball (Orig.: Zum Abgang eines sonderlings), Projektroom Akku, Stoneheart 2022, Stuttgart, DE Hunters and Gatheres, Drawing Installation, Wunderkammer Naturalia, Artificialia, Bad Canstatt, DE The small attic (Orig.: Der kleine Dachboden), Colorful concrete, Car Park Züblin, Stuttgart, DE Synthesized Blu:z, the general bass, Artroom 34. Stuttgart, DE |
| 2020 | Eye-catcher (Orig.: Blickfang), Artstudio Kaufbeuren, DE MAVA In two or three hundred years, life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful (Orig.: In zwei oder Dreihundert Jahren wird das Leben auf der Erde unvollstellbar schƶn sein) with Marlon Lanziner, Space Nalon, Esslingen am Neckar, DE MAVA THE RAIN BRINGS THE COLOR with Marlon Lanziner, Werkstatthaus, Stuttgart, DE MAVA The dampness of the riverbanks (Orig.: Die Feuchte der FlussrƤnder) with Marlon Lanziner, BahnwƤrterhaus, Villa Merkel, Esslingen am Neckar, DE |
Hunter and Collector, hand-drawn stop motion (1 min) Collection Museum Bread and Art, Ulm, DE
Hotel zum Hirschen, Südtirol, IT
Braun Steine GmbH, Ulm, DE
Fischer and Collegs, Stuttgart, DE
2023: Prize of the Werner-Pokorny-Foundation
Stereochrome is a unique artistic technique devloped by the artist Valo Valentino himself. It fuses sound and visual art through the medium of cymatic reverse glass painting. This series explores how sound frequencies can influence and shape visual forms, using the natural patterns created by sound vibrations in water.
In this process, a glass plate is layered with water and enamel pigments. These elements are then set into motion using a sound generator connected to a membrane. As stereo sound waves pass through the water, they cause the pigments to move and form intricate, shifting patterns. Over time, the water evaporates, preserving these dynamic designs on the glass surface.
Water acts as both a visualizer and conductor, translating sound frequencies into visible structures. Variables such as water volume, pigment concentration, glass size, and the pitch and volume of the sound all influence the final composition, making each piece a direct result of the interaction between sound and matter.
Valo arranges this technique into groups of chords and poetic color spaces based on color circles by Adolf Hƶlzel.
The artist develops a basso continuo similar to the compositional principles of music to create duple tones, triads, chromatic and musical triads with color. The architecture of sound transforms into composition and forms that can either be seen as raw sound or as a balanced tone color.

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