Vorspiel

a citywide programme
by spaces and initiatives
around transmediale
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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.


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!


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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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Events Exhibition, Vernissage

Holger Friese: unprompted

/rosa

Holger Friese: unprompted · Zentrum für Netzkunst

· presented as part of Vorspiel at /rosa

opening: Saturday, 17 January 2026 at 7 pm exhibition opening days: Tuesday, 20 January, 3–7 pm Wednesday, 21 January, 3–7 pm Thursday 22 January 2026, 3–7 pm

Entry Session with Holger Friese Monday, 19 January 7–9 pm

venue: /rosa Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin

In his latest project, unpromted, Holger Friese explores the use of generative AI in photography. Friese took well-known photos from West German media and used AI to regenerate them. The artist cuts the photos in half and uses the built-in Adobe Firefly to let the 'Generative Fill' feature calculate the rest of the image without any prompting. Rather than using models such as Midjourney or ChatGPT, Friese returned to Photoshop — a software that has been used for decades in various digital art practices and has created its own discourse. The project can thus be viewed in the context of the shift in photography from lens-based tools and cameras to a new generative paradigm. The act of generating a significant photo also puts in test the idea of a shared collective memory. Does the contemporary audience still know these historical images? And does the AI model know these photos from the datasets? What do these generative tools mean for history? What does it mean to remember or to generate memory?

/rosa Heidelberger Str. 28 12059 Berlin

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