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The Vorspiel Collection brings together artworks, films, photo-essays, texts, graphs, images, podcasts, sound experiments, and more.


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Find some impressions of the 2022 opening here.


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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.


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A look behind the Shared Frame streamed event for Vorspiel 2021 (pandemic edition).


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How we got there and how important it was for Panke.


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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


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Former transmediale artistic director Kristoffer Gansing applies a bit of home-grown numerology to reminisce about the secrets of Vorspiel!


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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 Exhibition, Vernissage

Chiara Passa, Mikuláš Mahr: stillllllife


18:00 –
/rosa

Chiara Passa & Mikuláš Mahr: stillllllife · Zentrum für Netzkunst

· presented as part of Vorspiel at /rosa

opening: Saturday, 31 January 2026 at 6-9 pm

venue: /rosa Heidelberger Str. 28, 12059 Berlin

The exhibition 'stillllllife' presents works by Chiara Passa, a digital artist who has been working in the field since the late 1990s, and Mikulas Mahr, a young artist who reflects on the role of computers in photography. In their projects, they address the forgotten genre of still life, a tradition that has been carried and transformed throughout history.

Returning to Dutch paintings of the 17th century, Mahr uses digital images of luxury goods such as glasses, delicacies and flowers. In his installation, these objects merely represent the surface of the image, referring to the consumerist, hyper-capitalist economy, as the paintings once did. However, by working with the desktop surface, the artist explores the potential for playful manipulation and the individual creation of these status images.

While in Baroque, objects depicted in still lifes are understood as inanimate and motionless, in her AR/VR installations, Passa sets them in motion. She starts from an object-oriented-ontology and programming, and penetrates deeper into her VR objects. Here, materialities come to life. Where Mahr’s work deliberately isolates objects as image-files, Passa’s practice does the opposite: She morphs photogrammetry and 3D scans into a continuous, dynamic environment of, with and around the object.

Both works reflect on objects less as static, defined entities, but as open, manipulatable configurations demanding to be experienced and interacted with, implying that the only contemporary possibility of still life is movement.

/rosa Heidelberger Str. 28 12059 Berlin

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