Vorspiel 2026

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


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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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Events Concert, Performance

RESONANT FUTURES / 共鳴する未来

A night of adventurous electronic music and audiovisual performances inspired by Berlin club culture, Japanese aesthetics, and post-human visions, where technology is used as a poetic medium, as a creative material to imagine possible futures where humans, machines, and nature coexist as harmonic systems.

Makoto Inoue Francesco Mancori Makoto Sakamoto Toshi & Chu

Makoto Inoue @makoto_inoue_sound https://makotoinoueart.com https://vimeo.com/user242071910/mutek23112025 Techno producer, Media Artist and Theatre Director Inoue moved to Berlin in 2018, driven by his fascination with techno music and he released techno music throughout Europe. Since 2022, his main focus has been on audiovisual performances, and he is currently active across Europe, primarily based in Berlin. He has expanded his artistic repertoire to include music live shows, exhibitions, and stage productions. Currently, the main theme Inoue explores in his work is based on fractal structures, as he has found a commonality between fractal structures and the Buddhist concept of reincarnation.

Francesco Mancori : Radical Dualist @Francesco_Mancori https://francescomancori.art/ https://www.extralight.de/ Media artist focusing on algorithmic drawings and interactive computing in digital morphogenetic processes. He studied philosophy of science with a minor in computers, then started to work in between art and science. Over the years he developed various projects also under the names Ran Ancor and Extralight, using custom-designed software and hardware for the construction of dynamic complex systems, working on electronic audiovisual live- set, photonics modulators, vjing, light installations, wearable performances and generative synthetic media.

Makoto Sakamoto @makoto_sakamoto_recordings Makoto Sakamoto is a Japanese sound artist whose improvisa-tional performances merge electronic textures with raw, tactile sound, exploring the interplay of space, perception, and real-time synthesis. He is currently developing a hybrid approach that merges intuitive improvisation with structured composition. Whether in performance, installation, or recorded format, his aim is to shape sound as a responsive, spatial, and physical phenomenon sensitive to its environment and to the presence of others.

Toshi @JiuQ_19 Japanese composer, arranger, beatmaker, and engineer specializing in live sound, recording, mixing, and technical support with Max/MSP. Working across genres such as contemporary music, hip-hop, IDM, experimental, and classical.

Chu @Chuuu_Painter Japanese painter, audio visual artist and VJ. He creates analog visuals using the painting materials, liquid and lights with sound.