Vorspiel 2026

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



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Fri, 16.01.

18:00, wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

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

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Exhibition

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Workshop, Installation

panke e.V Exhibition, Performance, DJ set, Installation, Vernissage, Hybrid Event

panke.gallery Vernissage

Sat, 17.01.

14:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

16:00, studio baustelle Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Lecture, Screening

18:00, Halfsister Exhibition, Vernissage

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Vernissage

/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

Mon, 19.01.
19:00, Make-Believe Studio Workshop

19:00, /rosa Workshop

19:00, Trust.support Lecture

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

Wed, 21.01.


Thu, 22.01.
11:00, Make-Believe Studio Workshop

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

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

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.

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

15:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation


18:00, wrangel66 Exhibition, Installation


18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Backhaus Projects Concert, Performance

Sat, 24.01.
14:00, wrangel66 Exhibition, Workshop

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

14:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

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.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

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

Tue, 27.01.
11:00, Make-Believe Studio Workshop

Wed, 28.01.
12:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

16:00, Pilz Kunst Labor / Satellit Performance, Workshop, Installation, Lecture, Screening

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

Thu, 29.01.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

15:00, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Exhibition, Lecture

18:00, Make-Believe Studio Workshop


19:00, panke.gallery Hybrid Event, Lecture

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

Fri, 30.01.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

14:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

15:00, top e.V. Exhibition, Performance, DJ set, Workshop, Installation, Hybrid Event, Screening

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.

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

15:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

15:30 Performance

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

17:00, Public Art Lab Exhibition

18:00, /rosa Exhibition, Vernissage

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

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


19:00, Uferstudios Performance

top e.V. Exhibition, Performance, DJ set, Workshop, Installation, Hybrid Event, Screening

Sun, 01.02.

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

15:00, Apartment Project Exhibition

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Finissage

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition


17:00, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Concert

18:00, Make-Believe Studio Concert, Performance

19:00, Uferstudios Performance


Thu, 05.02.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

Fri, 06.02.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

15:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

Sat, 07.02.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

14:00, SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien Exhibition, Installation

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

Sun, 08.02.
14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition, Installation

Mon, 09.02.

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, Vernissage

Moving Future Loves – An Interactive Intervention by FHP at ZK/U


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

How does a society feel that makes self-love a public duty—and what could we give back to the community? Who could belong to our family in the future, and will we make AI our friends? What remains essential about romantic love as times change? And could caring for animals lead to a new understanding between humans and animals? On Thursday, January 22, 2026, students from the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in the fields of design and European media studies invite you to explore possible answers.

At various stations, we invite you to reflect, dream, participate, and discuss – between personal thoughts and shared ideas of connection and intimacy.

Moving Future Loves comes to OPENHAUS at ZK/U as a procession, unfolds there for one evening, and then moves on. The intervention changes with its players, locations, and times – just like love itself. Moving Future Loves follows the vision of making society's understanding of love more diverse, inclusive, and egalitarian in order to harness the transformative power of love for a future worth living.

Participation is free of charge. We look forward to talking and meeting with you and celebrating love in all its diversity!

Creative Lead: Jasmin Jossin, Alexandra Martini, Myriel Milićević Assistence: Sarah Muise, Marina Ortega Velaz Students: Helena Brune, Mia Cordes, Maria Kezia Damerow, Elitsa Dimitrova, Celina Dubberke, Lidia Ekimova, Johanna Felsberg, Leonard Friedrich, Alvarez Gamero, Telsa Grünig, Morgen Alraun Guillen, Helen Haferkorn, Victoria Hoang, Tino Jährig, Mohammad Kalbouneh, Youna Küenle, Sudi Kujack, Martina Lucia, Michelle Otiji, Bana Rabie, Liv Elisa Rasche, Jakob Reinartz, Charlotte Struck, Laetitia Suhl, Ben Waldera, Dustin Wichmann

Moving Future Loves is a semester project by lecturers and students from the fields of design and European media studies at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam.

With its stop at OPENHAUS at ZK/U, Moving Future Loves is part of the Vorspiel program (Vorspiel 2026 – a citywide program by spaces and initiatives around transmediale and CTM festivals).

ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics Siemensstrasse 27 10551 Berlin

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