Vorspiel 2026

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Fri, 16.01.
19:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation, Vernissage


20:30, panke.gallery Concert, Performance

21:00, panke.gallery Exhibition, Performance, Installation

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

panke.gallery Vernissage

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

18:00, Halfsister Exhibition, Vernissage

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Vernissage

SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

/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.
17:00, DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital Exhibition, Performance, Hybrid Event

19:00, ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics Exhibition

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, DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital Concert, Performance, DJ set, Hybrid Event, Screening

20:00, Bodrum-Berlin Performance


Shared Frame Exhibition, Concert, DJ set, Hybrid Event

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


16:00, Halfsister Performance

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

19:30, MotionLab.Berlin Hybrid Event

Sat, 31.01.
15:30 Performance

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

18:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

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

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Apartment Project 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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{meso} mutualism


21:00 –
panke.gallery

Mizuki Ishikawa, Val Solari, Kika Echeverria and Maria Kobylenko present an interactive audio-visual live performance where sound, water and movement merge with sculptural and digital forms. A responsive membrane transforms touch and flow into sound, while the concept of the soil ecosystem acts as an operative interface, tracing mycelial networks and insect labor as extractive and generative forces. The audience is invited to sense, reflect and inhabit in-between {meso} spaces. The work positions mutualism as an alternative to environmental relations, emphasizing reciprocity, transformation and co-agency as guiding principles.

For The opening event of Vorspiel Transmediale at Panke an interactive audio-visual live performance will take place created by Mizuki Ishikawa, Val Solari, Kika Echeverria and Maria Kobylenko.

The performance is based on two parts.

Suspended from the ceiling and partially immersed in water, an algae-based biopolymer textile functions simultaneously as skin and instrument. Sensitive to humidity, water, touch, and time, it translates physical contact into sound through its conductive properties. The performance opens by approaching algae as living, non-human bodies in constant transformation. Developed as a work-in-progress, the textile encapsulates carbon and operates as a zone of contact where material, body, and environment begin to entangle.

Sound becomes an open field of exploration, in which the material responses of the algae are amplified and interwoven with fragments of voice, breath, and the distant resonances of the sea. These sonic layers evoke the algae’s origin and propose a listening practice grounded in reciprocity rather than extraction. Through tension, movement, and manipulation, the textile is activated, generating electrical signals that are modified in real time. Sound emerges from a shared system in which the human body, material, and environment affect one another reciprocally. During the performance, humans and algae temporarily form a hybrid, symbiotic body: two skins capable of conducting energy, memory, and sensation. Water acts both as the material environment of the performance and as the origin of the algae, revealing the entanglement between human bodies and aquatic worlds. The work unfolds as an open inquiry into how sound can express a desire for connection with non-human life, emphasizing reciprocity, transformation and shared action.

The second part of the performance, introduced by Maria Kobylenko, rises from deep water into a zone of transition and entanglement. It focuses on the soil ecosystem as an operational interface and examines mycelium networks and the work of insects as extractive and generative processes. These biological systems are placed in relation to industrial and technological production logics, creating hybrid constellations between biological and technical “factories.” Two sculptural forms grow out of the digital realm: hybrid assemblages composed of 3D bioplastic prints, mycelium composites and stone perforated by drill clams. The cavities created by the drill clams function as micro-habitats for small organisms, proposing an alternative notion of infrastructure: not optimized for extraction or efficiency, but for coexistence, leakage and biodiversity. The digital aspect of the performance is realized via two projection mapped walls. These combine documentary material and scientific information with 3D animations and poetic fragments. Video recordings, for example of insects or landscapes, are juxtaposed with computer-generated organic structures and technological and industrial contexts. Configured as antennae and magnifying devices, the projections assemble a {meso} “inbetween” territory in which perception of the environment can be experienced as a dynamic, continuously changing process.*

This part of the performance is accompanied by an improvised, generative soundscape by Mizuki Ishikawa. The sound is created using modular synthesizers and a contact microphone. The semi-automated synthesizer generates a sound space that is influenced by the mycelium sculptures via the contact microphone. The live visuals react to the sound in real time and vice versa. The question of who controls the sound is raised: humans, machines, or non-human actors?

The overall work frames mutualism as an alternative to extractive relationships with the environment, emphasizing reciprocity and cooperative alliances (co-agency) as fundamental principles for an ecologically responsible coexistence with more-than-human** life forms.

*The concept is derived from the audio-visual live performance “meso territories”, planned as part of the exhibition “worm hole in star” curated by dani neira. Due to technical limitations, the performance was not realized.

**“More-than-human” describes a perspective that does not view the world exclusively from a human point of view, but recognizes non-human entities such as animals, materials, technical systems and natural phenomena as active co-creators of the world. This understanding is particularly prevalent in the humanities and social sciences in order to understand and address global crises such as climate change. (See Donna Haraway, Jane Bennett, Timothy Morton, Rosi Braidotti)

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