Vorspiel 2026

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


Spaces


Events

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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Promises

PROMISES

Art Between Perception and Algorithms

Opening, 15.01.2026, 17:00 - 21.00 Exhibition: 16.01.2026 - 13.02.26 Part of Vorspiel 2026 Location: Markgrafenstraße 86, 10969 Berlin

Promises - Art Between Perception and Algorithms brings together artworks that trace how technological, social and institutional promises shape our lives. Through echo chambers, detection systems and participatory setups, art appears here less as a solution and more as an indicator: a way to sense where expectations, control and imagination collide.

Machine Royale — Echo Chambers of Our Time, Kathrin Hunze Video installation/object robot surrounded by a guinea pig fent with black shadowballs. 2025

Machine Royale — Echo Chambers of Our Time explores desire within emerging power structures across digital and physical spaces and their effects on society. Technologies like AI and digital currencies fuel a hunger for efficiency, inflating bubbles whose bursts reshape social and economic life. The work asks how we will navigate dataism while dulled by an incessant flood of communication and information.


How this media artist got discovered by the algorithm Clemens Schöll & Ortrun Bargholz

Visibility and invisibility are always in tension with each other, both in digital and physical space. Recordings of a video-based performance were examined using the automated object recognition of the YOLO system. The desire for anonymity exists alongside the desire for attention and to be discovered as an artist.

Single-channel video (3’5”, 1080×810) with sound, 2021/2024


A Brighter Flash Dani Ploeger, Digital Video, 2024

Standing on the street in front of V2_, I give a short lecture on the aesthetics of explosive devices. I am holding a pipe bomb in my hands. The camera slowly moves backwards while I speak. The bomb explodes. While the camera keeps moving away, the film set and the fire SFX mechanism are exposed.

Filmed at V2_Lab for the unstable media, Rotterdam, April 2024 Camera: Jochem Weststrate Fire effects: Lieven Slabbinck / Divi-Divi Dolly Grip: Jelle Zuidweg