Olad Aden is an African-German-American Street Social Worker, Photographer and Videographer based in Berlin, Germany. In this capacity he has initiated and facilitated a number of youth exchange programs like "The BronxBerlinConnection“. Together with a group of Social Workers and teaching artists he has been conducting the project „ZwischenWelten“ in the youth detention facility Berlin. In addition he co-curated a number of cultural projects. In 2010 he co-curated "Translating Hip Hop“ which took place in Manila, Bogota, Beirut, Nairobi and Berlin for the House of World Cultures in Berlin. He co-initiated and co-curated "SPOKEN WOR:L:DS", a literature/rap project between Berlin and Nairobi for the Literatur Werkstatt-Berlin and a project called DExZA, a Poetry/Rap/Music performance exchange program between Johannesburg and Berlin funded by the Heinrich Böll Foundation/The Goethe Institut and the German Consulate in South Africa.
More recently he has initiated the “YAE Project” a Rap/Poetry art project between Berlin and Detroit and the most recent project „Exchange2Change“ which he has designed and which he co-leads for the Goethe Institut in London, England.
His photography was featured in the exhibition „Counter Narratives“ in Berlin.
His Film the “BronxBerlinConnection” was nominated to the The Hip Hop Film Festival - NYC, The Docs Film Festival -LA, The Black International Film Festival - Montreal. It won the Hip Hop Film Festival in Rome and The Black Cinema Film Festival in Berlin.
He ́s currently working on a number of new ideas and upcoming projects.