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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POROUS MATTER - Anna Anderegg


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Uferstudios

POROUS MATTER is an interdisciplinary performance developed in collaboration with the University of Zurich. The work investigates the permeability — the porosity — of the body and explores its entanglement with organisms beyond the human: as an open web of relations, permeated by microbes, data, and resonances.

Over the past decades, many fields of research have developed a growing awareness of the interconnectedness and mutual dependence of biological organisms and systems. In this context, a new perspective on the human body has also emerged: like all ecosystems, our bodies are not closed entities but porous, constantly engaged in exchanges with their surroundings. What does this mean for how we imagine our bodies—and for our being-in-the-world? These questions have been explored by Anna Anderegg in collaboration with an interdisciplinary team of scientists and artists.

In POROUS MATTER, the body is approached as an archive inscribed with evolutionary memories, fossil traces, and microbiological histories. The body becomes a landscape—inhabited by microbes, fungi, and cellular colonies that shape our metabolism, our perception, and our existence. New technologies render these entanglements visible and tangible, reminding us that we are connected beings, that we are “nature.” Yet this also means that species extinction affects not only our external habitats but also the inhabitants within our own bodies—organisms on which our lives depend.

The performance further addresses the difficulty of reconciling these insights with lived reality—as members of a society that imagines humanity as separate from “nature” and positioned as its master. How do we navigate this involuntary complicity?

TEAM

Artistic Direction: Anna Anderegg Curation: Dr. Katharina Weikl, Art x Science Office, Universität Zürich From & With: Julia B. Laperrière, Lucia Gugerli, Selina Shida Hack, Waylon D‘Mello Dramaturgy: Nina Willimann Scenography & Artistic Mediation: Szandra Tebbe Sound Design: Marco Barotti Costume Design: Antoniya Ivanova Light Design & Technical Direction: Trécy Afonso Video Edition: Milica Slacanin Video Art: Rahul Sharma Video: Swan Park Photos: Theresa Maria Forthaus Distribution: Laurence Lang Choreographic assistance & performed text: Laureline Richard Textile printing: House of U Scenography Realisation: Elie Peuvrel Creative Engineering:: Hémisphère Metal Construction: Ferdi Hansen

RESEARCH COLLABORATORS

Prof. Debjani Bhattacharyya – Department of History, University of Zurich Prof. Adrian Egli – Director of the Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich Prof. Jan Fehr - Departement Public & Global Health Prof. Helen Keller – Climate Justice, Faculty of Law, University of Zurich Dr. Gaetana Restivo – Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich Dr. Claudia Röösli – Remote Sensing Laboratories, University of Zurich Prof. Marcelo Sánchez – Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Zurich Prof. Michael Scharl – Head of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Zurich

Uferstudios Uferstraße 23 13357 Berlin

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