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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Other-than-human


16:00 –

15:00 –
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. More artists being added. Schedule yet to be decided.

Artists:

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

  1. Dead-silence, negotiating noise with the non-living: Installation, talk.
  2. 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)
  3. Unravelling the threads: Sounding marine food webs (with Helmholtz institute of Marine Biodiversity), video, talk.
  4. 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.

studio baustelle Berthelsdorfer Str. 11 12043 Berlin

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