Vorspiel 2026

a citywide programme
by spaces and initiatives
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Fri, 16.01.
19:00, SCOTTY Exhibition, Installation, Vernissage



20:30, panke.gallery Concert, Performance

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

panke.gallery Vernissage

Sat, 17.01.
16:00, studio baustelle Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Lecture, Screening

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Vernissage

18:00, Halfsister Exhibition



/rosa Exhibition, Vernissage

Sun, 18.01.
05:00, Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile Performance

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition


15:00, studio baustelle Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Lecture, Screening

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

Tue, 20.01.
19:00, Studio dB Concert, Performance, Installation

Wed, 21.01.


Thu, 22.01.
19:00, Jaime Levy / TVOD Productions Concert, Performance

19:30, alpha nova & galerie futura Performance, Installation, Screening

Fri, 23.01.
18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Backhaus Projects Concert, Performance

Sat, 24.01.
16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

20:00, Bodrum-Berlin Performance


Shared Frame Exhibition, Concert, DJ set, Hybrid Event

Sun, 25.01.
15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

Mon, 26.01.
19:30, Lichtblick Kino Concert, Performance, Hybrid Event, Screening

Wed, 28.01.
16:00, Pilz Kunst Labor Performance, Workshop, Installation, Lecture, Screening

19:00, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Performance, Screening

Thu, 29.01.

19:00, Jaime Levy / TVOD Productions Concert, Performance

Fri, 30.01.
16:00, Illulab at Illuseum Berlin Concert, Installation

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

19:00, Baumhaus Performance

Sat, 31.01.
16:00 Performance

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition


19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Sun, 01.02.
15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Finissage

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition


17:00, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Concert

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Thu, 15.01.

Articles


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


Image Gallery

Find some impressions of the 2022 opening here.


Video

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.


Video

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


Essay

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


Essay Artwork

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


Essay

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


Essay

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.


Essay

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.


Essay

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.


Essay

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.


Video

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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EastUnBloc

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

35 years into the post-socialist transition in Europe, images of the “former East” are often still rendered in shades of gray. Only recently, Cold War scholarship is beginning to move away from a view of two monolithic opposing blocs, instead exploring the concept of alternate or parallel modernities rather than the idea of lack and lag in the former Eastern bloc. To add color to these images, explore the ruptures and permeability of the “Iron Curtain” and blast apart pre-conceptions, the group exhibition EastUnBloc presents subversive and experimental media art works and practices by more than two dozen artists and collectives from socialist and transition-era Central and Eastern Europe as well as the production contexts in which they were created. Beyond presentation, the exhibition seeks to reclaim these works, as “artistic intelligence”: inspiration and toolkits to respond to current challenges.

In Central and Eastern Europe, the late 1980s and early 1990s were marked by intertwined paradigm shifts: the dissolution of state socialism and the dawn of the digital and internet age. This simultaneity brought about a diverse body of media works. Borrowing a term from computer programming, EastUnBloc ‘reverse engineers’ the underlying principles of these works and their production processes by thinking of them as “scripts”.

These “scripts” invite visitors to connect with the exhibited works and reflect their past, present and future through the exhibits’ lenses: “Reality bending” features pranks, hoaxes and other hacks. “Expose the Seams” reveals media’s underlying processes. “Make Your Own Media” shows empowerment through autonomous or counterpublic media production and interactivity. “Turn Shit Into Chocolate” refers to making use of limited resources for maximal effect. “Bring a Friend” assembles works which created communities or documented communal activities. “Space in Time” forges connections across spatial and temporal boundaries.

The works, which encompass experimental film, video art, TV broadcast experiments, net.art, computer games and installations, are not ordered hierarchically, neither chronologically nor geographically. Rather the „scripts“ the works exemplify guide visitors to encounter works in an optional order. Vintage reproduction technology and (often obsolete) storage media are used. An onsite media lab enables visitors to contribute own media interventions to the exhibition by applying the scripts.

A cooperation with Wiki-based arts online library Monoskop provides background information, which is interconnected with the exhibits, such as more detailed texts about works, the creators, explored topics, cities and countries of origin, and a historical timeline. The exhibition is accompanied by discussions, screenings, workshops and performances. EastUnBloc also ties into past nGbK projects such as hybrid video tracks (2001) and Left Performance Histories (2018).

With contributions by: Sarah Alberti, Zemira Alajbegović & Neven Korda, Art Servers Unlimited, Tilman Baumgärtel, Andreas Broeckmann, Radúz Činčera / Alena Činčerová, C.U.K.T., D’epog, Aleksandra Domanović, Eclectic Tech Carnival, Davide Grassi, Marina Gržinić & Aina Šmid, Gusztáv Hámos, Tereza Havlíková, Benjamin Heidersberger, Mike Hentz, Brendan Howell, Infermental, Laibach, Dalibor Martinis, MetaForum, Monoskop, Pneuma Szöv. / TV Free Europe, Pneuma Vizuál, Lucia Repašská, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Sakrowski, Satori, Slovak Game Developers Association / Slovak Design Museum, Igor Štromajer, Szilárd Matusik, Vákuum TV (Dóra Csernatony, Kristóf Forgács, Dániel Garas, Donáta Gajzágó, László Kistamás, Attila Till), Van Gogh TV / Piazza Virtuale, Vašulka Kitchen Brno (Jennifer Helia DeFelice), Sabine Vogel & Mike Steiner, Krzysztof Wodiczko and many more

Exhibition design: Luca Szabados

nGbK work group: Dušan Barok, Zsuzsa Berecz, Friedemann Bochow, Natalie Gravenor, Sarah Günther

Funded by the German-Czech Fund for the Future

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 11/13 10178 Berlin

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