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The Vorspiel Collection brings together artworks, films, photo-essays, texts, graphs, images, podcasts, sound experiments, and more.


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Find some impressions of the 2022 opening here.


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Our famous interview Staffette has returned! Watch this year's edition featuring a few of the participating spaces of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM. The 2022 edition marks the 11th anniversary of our initiative and aim to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives.


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A look behind the Shared Frame streamed event for Vorspiel 2021 (pandemic edition).


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How we got there and how important it was for Panke.


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Postcards from the Metaverse speculates on the value of the popular 20th century medium – the postcard – in providing accessible and underrepresented perspectives on a newly- hyped infrastructure


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Former transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing applies a bit of home-grown numerology to reminisce about the secrets of Vorspiel!


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The reSource network has been an extremely valuable resource in the process of establishing and running SPEKTRUM Berlin. It allowed us to connect with like-minded people in the city, to start up new collaborations, and to learn from those facing similar issues in running project spaces.


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The essay summarizes the Czech-Brazilian cultural theorist and media philosopher Vilém Flusser’s ideas on the apparatus, codes, and programmed and manipulated society. He ends his texts by highlighting the importance of artists who might be able to play with and against the apparatus and challenge mass media and their preprogrammed functions.


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From 2011 to 2014, Tatiana Bazzichelli and a team of others designed a sprawling event program called “reSource transmedial culture Berlin,” which picked up on transmediale-related projects and flung them far further.


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Since 2013 designtransfer – the gallery and communicates interface of the Faculty of Design, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK Berlin) and the public – participates yearly at Vorspiel to present various projects as exhibitions, installations, and talks related to their New Media & Design courses.


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Watch a digital interview Staffette with some of the participating spaces of Vorspiel / transmediale & CTM. The 2021 edition marks the 10th anniversary of our initiative and aim to showcase the richness and diversity of Berlin's independent project spaces and artist initiatives in collaboration with transmediale.


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Attachment Issues - Andrey Shental, solo show


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Attachment Issues solo show by Andrey Shental 31 January - 1 February 2026

Opening: 30 January, 6 - 9.30 pm

Expressions found in German, Russian, Polish, and other languages—such as the German "eine Klette sein" (“to be a burdock burr”)—have no direct equivalent in English. Literally, these phrases describe a person who clings, who cannot detach. Such linguistic metaphors originate in a concrete botanical phenomenon known as epizoochory: a mode of seed dispersal in which certain plants, including burdock (Arctium lappa), propagate by hitching a ride on passing bodies. Burdock burrs (spiky seed pods) are particularly sticking; once attached to fabric, furs or skin, they are difficult to remove.

The exhibition 'Attachment Issues' centres on common psychological patterns of anxious and avoidant behaviour to critically reassess bucolic visions of “wild nature” as well as the human longing for the “more-than-human” world. These roles are not fixed identities but unstable positions that shift and reverse through relational dynamics. Is it possible to build a “secure” relationship with the natural Other or is it precisely the tension between these centrifugal and centripetal forces that binds humans and the natural world together?

This body of work is centred around a series of performances and interactions with plants developed by Andrey Shental between 2022 and 2025 and his collaboration with musician Ange Halliwell and photographer Janna Tatarova.

Andrey Shental is a Berlin-based artist and art writer working across film, landscape performance, environmental interventions, critical and fictional texts. Informed by a background in philosophy and a fascination with sublime natural forces, his practice explores questions of the domination of nature and the ideological biases embedded in techno-scientific systems. Through queer-ecological performative strategies, he often uses his own body to stage relations of attachment, submission, and dissolution that challenge pastoral imaginaries. In his films, Shental endows more-than-human agencies with political force, questioning anthropocentric hierarchies and merging natural and social histories.

Location: Centrum, Reuterstr. 7, 12053 Berlin Visiting hours: Saturday & Sunday from 2 to 7 pm

Centrum Reuterstraße 7 12053 Berlin

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