Vorspiel 2026

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



Vorspiel Opening Fri 16.01. – 17.01.2026, doors open 19:00 panke e.V

official VORSPIEL OPENING at panke.gallery and Panke Club. A night of audio-visual performances and live sets contributed by Berlin media art initiatives and spaces in the BYOB (bring your own beamer) format.


Spaces


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

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Exhibition

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

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

panke.gallery Vernissage

Thu, 15.01.

Events

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

neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst (nGbK) Exhibition

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

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.
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.

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


18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Backhaus Projects Concert, Performance


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

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.
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 / Satellit 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.
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.

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.

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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Events Concert, Performance

+punk | electro post pseudo meta proto punk


20:30 –
panke.gallery

+punk

💥 electro post pseudo meta proto punk by !gor #352;

Vorspiel [transmediale & CTM] 2026

💣 panke.gallery Friday, 16 January 2026 at 20:30

📍 Gerichtstr. 23, Hof 5, 13347 Berlin

intima.org/+ panke.gallery/event/pluspunk

Are you ready for a revolution? Are you ready to follow the sound of the proto-guru of the categorical imperative? Brace yourself for a seismic shift and do not miss !gor #352;'s winter electro post pseudo meta proto punk concert. This non-amateur pseudo-artist, a grandmaster in the use of cables, wires, and switches as instruments of social and political change, an internet algorithm embodied in human form that found love in a hopeless place, will take you on a turbo-sonic journey toward political empowerment. The experience culminates in apocalyptic inspiration and uses musical ignorance as a vehicle for a universal transhuman message of political anxiety.

Abandon bourgeois reformist politics. Join #352; in the movement for direct action and fight for what you do not believe in. His sound is not just music, it is a call to all of us, a lucid and uncompromising call to action. The sound itself becomes an ideology, emerging where there is neither reason nor necessity for it, on the margins of society and the universe that are without weight, value, or form, the last remaining zones of freedom. Those who claim that money cannot buy happiness simply do not know which algorithms to use.

But a #352; concert is more than sound and music. It is an open-source experience. It is an opportunity to become part of something larger than yourself, to internalize your external working memory, to connect with the ineffable, and to open your critical, enlightened, uncorrupted mind before the state and its institutions. This is a struggle without reason. Through sound, #352; inspires and provokes others to take a stand and fight for a better yesterday. Only through direct action, through counter-revolutionary force, can the changes we demand be realized. Art has so far only interpreted the world in various ways, but for #352; the task is to preserve and protect it from the catastrophic destruction imposed by the consumerism of immortal late capitalism.

Neither the state, nor the operating system, nor capital, nor the human can make an algorithm happy. Happiness can only be achieved by the algorithm itself. Not as an isolated individual, but through equal relations with other machines, digital and more than digital. The avant-garde forces of class struggle therefore have only one objective: to create, within the limits of a given historical moment, conditions in which the algorithm can act, express itself, and create as freely as possible, so that it may work and create for its own happiness using the dispossessed means of production.

The time to make a difference is now, and #352;'s sound is the perfect weapon to do so. Take it into your own hands. Do not miss the chance to be part of a movement that seeks to change the world, to be together and to be more. Join the revolution, because the end of the world as we know it is near. !gor #352;, a human who does not exist, is your only hope, and one of the millions who can lead you toward a better past.

panke.gallery Gerichtstraße 23 Hof 5 13347 Berlin

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