Vorspiel 2026

a citywide programme
by spaces and initiatives
around transmediale
and CTM festivals


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Fri, 16.01.
19:00, SCOTTY Exhibition, Installation, Vernissage



20:30, panke.gallery Concert, Performance

panke.gallery Vernissage

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



Sun, 18.01.

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

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

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

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

Wed, 28.01.
19:00, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Performance, Screening

Thu, 29.01.
19:00, Jaime Levy / TVOD Productions Concert, Performance

Fri, 30.01.
19:00, Uferstudios Performance

19:00, Baumhaus Performance

Illulab at Illuseum Berlin Concert, Installation

Illulab at Illuseum Berlin Concert, Installation

Sat, 31.01.

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Sun, 01.02.
17:00, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Concert

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Thu, 15.01.

Wed, 21.01.

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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Events Exhibition, Installation

I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. | exhibition tour /w Manja Ebert and Sabrina Labis


18:00 –
SCOTTY

Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis

With “I can not believe it.”, SCOTTY presents an exhibition featuring artists Manja Ebert and Sabrina Labis. The show brings together two positions that reflect on the processes behind the creation and circulation of digital images, examining the contextual shifts and narratives that emerge within social networks. Both artists focus on the shifting contexts and narratives that emerge in social networks, using strategies of collecting, organizing, and reconfiguring found footage to investigate the intersections between digital technology, networked communication, and perception.

In “Brubble”, Manja Ebert translates the invisible flows of data and the hidden background processes of social networks into a tangible video and light installation. The work invites viewers to reflect on resource consumption and the dynamics of a content culture that constantly (re)produces, shares, and instrumentalizes new material. Ebert continues these investigations in "OBEY", where she engraves screenshots from platforms such as TikTok into smartphone displays, confronting them with paradoxical calls to action. The result is a reflection on the equivalence and interchangeability of social media content—where information, advertising, fake news, and AI-generated images merge into a single, continuous stream. Ebert’s works expose the underlying structures and visual codes that shape how we experience digital imagery today.

In her work “Weird Stars”, Sabrina Labis takes as her starting point a collection of amateur YouTube videos gathered over several years. In these recordings, laypeople attempt to document allegedly unusual celestial phenomena while narrating their own interpretations off-screen before sharing them online. Labis weaves these digital fragments into her own constellation, creating a space of negotiation where questions of perception, truth, and imagination intersect with the formation of conspiracy myths and fake news. With “Weird Certificates”, Labis extends her reflections: for each amateur video, she purchases a star online and displays its accompanying certificate. These documents retroactively lend the recordings an absurd credibility, revealing how facts can be performatively produced in a digitally networked world.

SCOTTY Oranienstraße 46 10969 Berlin

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