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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.


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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


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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

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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