Vorspiel 2026

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

Spaces

Fri, 16.01.

i think i am - opening - julia herold, julian netzer, merani schilcher, sebastian wolf

Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. – Opening

Boer x Whitehill // Teresa Riemann // Hui Chun Lin

+punk | electro post pseudo meta proto punk

{meso} mutualism

EastUnBloc

OPENING: unlived present

Vorspiel-Opening

OPENING: Diffused Archive

Thu, 15.01.

Promises

Events

Fri, 16.01.

i think i am - opening - julia herold, julian netzer, merani schilcher, sebastian wolf

Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. – Opening

Boer x Whitehill // Teresa Riemann // Hui Chun Lin

+punk | electro post pseudo meta proto punk

{meso} mutualism

EastUnBloc

OPENING: unlived present

Vorspiel-Opening

OPENING: Diffused Archive

Sat, 17.01.

i think i am - julia herold, julian netzer, merani schilcher, sebastian wolf

Other-than-human

OPENING: Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

Opening: Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin

Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT.

Holger Friese: unprompted

Sun, 18.01.

Posthuman shop

i think i am - julia herold, julian netzer, merani schilcher, sebastian wolf

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

Other-than-human

Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Mon, 19.01.

Humanos Cuestionando las Máquinas.

Holger Friese - Entry Session

An Update on Policing and Justice in Berlin

Tue, 20.01.

Antiphonia

Wed, 21.01.

AI and Fiction Film – Screening and Artist Talk with Sina Ataeian Dena and Silke Botsch

RESONANT FUTURES レゾナント・フューチャー Meet the Japanese electronic scene in Berlin

Thu, 22.01.

Phygital Intimacy

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

OPENHAUS January 2026

TVOD: Live Signal Processing, Electronic Sound & AI Visuals

Can You Feel My Diasporic Love? Affective Encounters of Wonder, Body, and Machine

Vernissage: pOwer vectOrs Ideology embeddings of LLMs // NEW OPENING DATE!

Fri, 23.01.

KAMERA SERIES | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND PRINTED MATTER Retrospective 2021-2025

KAMERA SERIES | EXPERIMENTAL FILMS AND PRINTED MATTER Retrospective 2021-2025

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

AUTOMARTIN3D presents ‘Apocalypse Wow!’

pOwer vectOrs. Ideology embeddings of LLMs // NEW OPENING DATE!

Sat, 24.01.

Sound Mates

Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

ACT(7)

Bertolt Meyer: Synlimb live modular performance

To Failure: an experiment through sound and rope - Alex Hawthorn

Shared Frame Night 2026 - Transmediale CTM-Vorspiel

Sun, 25.01.

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

pOwer vectOrs Ideology embeddings of LLMs. Artist and scientist conversation: Helena Nikonole with Levin Brinkmann // CHANGE OF DATE!

Still Need TV, Performance by Paulette Penje

Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Mon, 26.01.

Soundwatch Bonus Tracks: Live Light Painting x Music

Wed, 28.01.

Pilz Kunst Labor (Fungi Art Lab)

Bye Bye My Eye: Confirmed. Understood. Over and out.

Thu, 29.01.

Exit the {Dollhouse} - Participatory Game Night / Guided Website Exploration

TVOD: Live Signal Processing, Electronic Sound & AI Visuals

Fri, 30.01.

ecoSYNTH² — Living Interfaces

Melantónia x Last Riot

Attachment Issues - Andrey Shental, solo show

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

POROUS MATTER - Anna Anderegg

Meditation for the City by August Shells

AVJam + NODE Institute

Sat, 31.01.

Attachment Issues - Andrey Shental, solo show

1 ⭐️ Review Tour: U8 GIRL!

Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Boiling Media Art

Chiara Passa, Mikuláš Mahr: stillllllife

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

Manja Ebert, Sabrina Labis. I CAN NOT BELIEVE IT. – exhibition tour

POROUS MATTER - Anna Anderegg

ecoSYNTH² — Living Interfaces

Sun, 01.02.

Attachment Issues - Andrey Shental, solo show

Closing: Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin

Vorspiel at Bodrum-Berlin Group Exhibition

Opening: A Drop by Mina Mohseni

Mutual Orbits - Group Exhibition

Hara Shin: Monumental Ether. Bodies. Screening and Q&A

Circumstances & Resolutions - Marco Wedel at Stille 3

POROUS MATTER - Anna Anderegg

Thu, 15.01.

Promises

Spaces

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alpha nova & galerie futura

Apartment Project

Art Claims Impulse

Art Laboratory Berlin

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Åplus Berlin

B

Backhaus Projects

Baumhaus

Bodrum-Berlin

C

Centrum

D

Daruma

DOCK 11 / DOCKdigital

Dreifaltigkeitskirche

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Errant Sound

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Filminstitut of the University of the Arts Berlin

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Halfsister

Haus der Statistik

Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile

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Illulab at Illuseum Berlin

Institut für Alles Mögliche

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Jaime Levy / TVOD Productions

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Labor Neunzehn

Lichtblick Kino

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Make-Believe Studio

MotionLab.Berlin

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neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK)

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OPEN SPACE

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Pandora Art Gallery

panke e.V

panke.gallery

Pilz Kunst Labor / Satellit

Public Art Lab

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Richten25

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S29

School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe

SCOTTY – Raum für aktuelle Kunst und experimentelle Medien

Shared Frame

SomoS Art House

Soundwatch

studio baustelle

Studio dB

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top e.V.

TORHAUS

Trust.support

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Uferstudios

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wrangel66

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ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics

Zönotéka

Articles

The Vorspiel Collection brings together artworks, films, photo-essays, texts, graphs, images, podcasts, sound experiments, and more.

Shared Frame at the Vorspiel 2022 Opening

Shared Frame

Find some impressions of the 2022 opening here.

Vorspiel 2022 interview staffette

team Vorspiel

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.

Shared Frame streaming session 2021 presentation Painless Future & Viper Dreams Vinyl Dj Set

Shared Frame

A look behind the Shared Frame streamed event for Vorspiel 2021 (pandemic edition).

transmediale x CTM x Vorspiel

Erikah Vabaliukas

How we got there and how important it was for Panke.

Postcards from the Metaverse

Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Solaris

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

Vorspiel: The Before that Empowers What’s to Come

Kristoffer Gansing

Former transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing applies a bit of home-grown numerology to reminisce about the secrets of Vorspiel!

Resourceful Networking

Lieke Ploeger

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.

Vilém Flusser – Art and Therapy

Vilém Flusser Archive

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.

Revisiting the Innovative reSource Project

Tatiana Bazzichelli

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.

designtransfer

Berlin University of the Arts

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.

Vorspiel 2021 – 10 year anniversary interview staffette

Team Vorspiel

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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Other-than-human

Sat, 17.01.2026
16:00 – 21:00

Sun, 18.01.2026
15:00 – 18:00

studio baustelle

The Other-than-human event at Studio Baustelle presents performance-talks, performances, short films and installations intended for, created by or with other-than-humans, be it cybernetic sound entities, the non-living, bacteria, or your cat. As Donna Haraway posited, the crises we are facing requires an ecological perspective to reshape our relationship to the earth and all of its inhabitants. On a more individual level, our relations to our oddkins are often our most meaningful relations even though we rarely think of them as such, filtered through a human-centric perception. In the talks we hope to hear how the artists' practices are shaped by these relations and vice versa. Human artists and audiences are welcome.

Schedule:

17th: 17.00 Lussidotter: The wind brings the flood (perf) 17.15 Hugsten: Hyperpresence and Dead Silence - Negotiating noise with the non-living (video, installation, talk) 18.00 Kellyosa Ersmark: LUNATIC (short film, paintings, talk) 18.30 Karin Valis: you-look-weary-too: reading for spiritually wealthy xenophiles at the brink of dissociation. 19.00 Hugsten: Von gutem, Willy Kyrklund and our relation to insects (amplified insects, objects, cut-up poetry) 19.45 C3T: intestinal synthesis in cybernetic feedback system (perf-talk) 20:00 Steve Williams / drusnoise: There is no separation: cyborg, hybrid sound with plants, bodies, heartbeats, light, and sound. (perf-talk)

18th: 15.30: Sam Godfrey: Encounters in the Hydrocommons: a reading of excerpts from creative-critical textual responses to a series of artworks on themes of queer kelp, wet electronics and trans ecologies. 16.00: Hugsten: Unravelling the threads (short film, talk) 16.30: Ani Samperi: Sounding the Sublime: the Impossibility of Individuality in the World of Tactile Sound. (talk) 17.15: Lussidotter and Vū: O white wings whirl (perf)

Artists:

Hugsten is Annsofie & Håkan Jonsson, both members of Studio Baustelle.

Dead-silence, negotiating noise with the non-living: Installation, talk.
Hyperpresence as an act of creative recording of the non-living: Performance-talk, video, photos, sound (w contrib. from Eric Mattson and CM von Hausswolff)
Unravelling the threads: Sounding marine food webs (with Helmholtz institute of Marine Biodiversity), video, talk.
Von gutem, Willy Kyrklund and our relation to insects: Performance, paintings.

you-look-weary-too: reading for spiritually wealthy xenophiles at the brink of dissociation. Karin Valis is a machine learning engineer and writer with a deep passion for everything occult and weird.

There is no separation: A lecture in three acts. Dissolving the boundaries between the human, the other-than-human, and technology, this performance-lecture explores cyborg and hybrid sound with plants, bodies, heartbeats, light, and sound. Creating a liminal space for audiences to attune to unheard sounds and relationships.

drusnoise is the sound project of Dr. Steve Williams, combining analog modular synthesis, digital FX, and organic samples. Drawing on research in energy transition, sound studies, and climate justice, his live work sonifies plants, bodies, and environmental data into immersive experimental sound art that builds relationships between humans and the environment.

Kellyosa Ersmark is a painter and filmmaker based in the forest of Röstånga, Sweden.

LUNATIC, film, 2012, 5:41 min, stereo, 16:9, HD As an attempt to engage with a non-human temporality, I began photographing the moon’s phases from my balcony in Stockholm during the winter of 2011–2012. I was drawn to an experience of time that is objective, indifferent, and potentially threatening. This inquiry developed into a series of animation experiments in which the moon’s phases confront the viewer, forming a structure of parallel planes that persist on the retina and destabilize the moon’s position within our deeply ingrained symbolic framework. The work articulates a desire to distance itself from socially constructed schedules and to move closer to a cosmic conception of space–time. The music was composed specifically for the film by Simon Mullan and Theodore Trottner.

Smaller-than-life, oil on synthetic paper paintings: "There is something deeply disturbing about this, I don't want to eat them. They are so extremely lovely; I want them to live. But my animal predator’s mouth waters and I order octopus when I can afford it."

Multidimensional artist and poet focused on experience and improvisation, informed by voice meditation, reflection and overcoming.

Short performance on 17.01: THE WIND BRINGS THE FLOOD

Main performance on 18.01, supported by Vū: O WHITE WINGS WHIRL

Ani Samperi is a sound artist and experimental musician using the physicality of sound as a portal through which sound can speak via the wisdom of the body.

Sounding the Sublime: the Impossibility of Individuality in the World of Tactile Sound. This talk explores the idea of symbiosis between the listening body and sound installation as one resonating organism, and the fragility of individuality in the presence of that which is greater-than-human. In this encounter with the sublime, do we truly fear our own darkness, or the idea that our darkness may not be unique at all?

C3T (also known as Seht Zhan) is a Brazilian musician, sonologist and “kaosmeister”. His work is not academic per se but very philosophical and intellectually transdisciplinary. Seht relationship with his tools and composing strategies is very much influenced by an animistic philosophy of purpose and a natural tendency to challenge the established.

Teleofilia Tectológica: A performance/essay rooted in long-term research into cybernetic feedback systems in poetic sound synthesis. The work begins by instantiating a minimal Kantian Whole, a closed organization from which teleonomic agency can emerge. Using what I call intestinal synthesis, consequences are continuously analyzed and returned as conditions, allowing a synthetic auditory organism to arise — and eventually collapse.

Sam Godfrey is an artist, writer, curator and PhD researcher at the University of Exeter. They like to tinker with textiles, sound and 3d programs, often creating installation works that you can get inside, lie down in and interact with. Their artistic research looks at creeping as a trans creative methodology, working across critical craft theory and visual culture, trans ecology and new media practices. They are currently the 2026 recipient of the Ronald Duncan Stipend for Southwest Writing (UK).

Encounters in the Hydrocommons: a reading of excerpts from creative-critical textual responses to a series of artworks on themes of queer kelp, wet electronics and trans ecologies. Framed as a series of speculative encounters with the artworks that correspond to the different regions of the oceanic floor, Encounters in the Hydrocommons was a collaborative project between Frankie Hallam and Sam Godfrey in 2022 that resulted in the accompanying catalogue available at this event.

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