Vorspiel 2024

A citywide program of events before and during the transmediale and CTM festivals


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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.


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.


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


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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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Fri, 20.01.
18:00, silent green Installation

18:00, silent green Exhibition, Installation, Vernissage

18:00, Bäumchen wechsle Dich - Change the tree Installation

18:00, silent green Exhibition, Performance, Vernissage

18:30, silent green Installation

18:30, silent green Vernissage

21:30, Panke e.V.


Sat, 21.01.
17:00, DZIALDOV x I'M DADDY Exhibition

17:00, Halfsister Installation

19:00, Anagram Space

20:00, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin Concert


/rosa Exhibition, Installation

Alte Münze Berlin Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage



Sun, 22.01.
13:00, DZIALDOV x I'M DADDY Exhibition

14:00 Exhibition, Lecture

15:00, Halfsister Installation

18:00, Anagram Space

Mon, 23.01.
19:00, Field Conspiracy w/ Etikett Radio Workshop

Tue, 24.01.
18:30, The Lighthouse of Digital Art Installation

19:00, Anagram Space

Wed, 25.01.
14:00, Re:mise Performance, Workshop

15:00, RawCC Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage, Finissage


20:30 Concert, Performance

Thu, 26.01.
16:00, SóLaura Studio Performance, Workshop


19:00, ZK/U - Center for Art and Urbanistics Exhibition, Installation

19:00, Vilém Flusser Archive Performance


Urban Spree Concert, Performance

Fri, 27.01.
06:00, Lobe Block Exhibition, Concert

17:00, DZIALDOV x I'M DADDY Exhibition




19:00, Alte Münze Berlin Concert, Performance, Installation

20:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition

SoundsAbout Exhibition, Performance, Installation

Sat, 28.01.

13:00, DZIALDOV x I'M DADDY Exhibition

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Hošek Contemporary Concert, Performance


Sun, 29.01.
13:00, DZIALDOV x I'M DADDY Exhibition

14:00, Art Laboratory Berlin Exhibition



Tue, 31.01.
12:00, Archipel Stations / Radio Otherwise Hybrid Event




Wed, 01.02.
19:00, einBuch.haus Installation

19:00, Anagram Space

19:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

19:00, alpha nova & galerie futura Performance, Online Event, Lecture

20:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

AL.Berlin Exhibition, Performance, DJ set, Installation

Thu, 02.02.

16:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

16:00, Hyper Berlin Exhibition, DJ set, Installation

18:00, synthesis gallery Vernissage


18:30 Concert, Vernissage

19:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

19:30, Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Performance

20:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

20:00, Ballhaus Prinzenallee Performance

synthesis gallery Exhibition


Fri, 03.02.


16:00, Hyper Berlin Exhibition, DJ set, Installation

18:30 Concert, Vernissage

19:00, Anagram Space

19:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

20:00, Vierte Welt Exhibition, Installation

Society for Nontrivial Pursuits Exhibition, Concert, Performance, Installation


Liebig12 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Hybrid Event, Lecture

CTRL.XX.TENSION @SO36 Concert, Performance, DJ set

Sat, 04.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

14:00, Field Conspiracy w/ Etikett Radio Performance


16:00, Hyper Berlin Exhibition, DJ set, Installation

17:00, einBuch.haus Performance

19:00, Insola Berlin Performance, Installation


Mensch Meier // club and culture house Exhibition, Performance, DJ set, Hybrid Event

Sun, 05.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

14:00, synthesis gallery Finissage

Tue, 07.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

Wed, 08.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

Thu, 09.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

Fri, 10.02.
13:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage


Sat, 11.02.
16:00 Exhibition, Concert, Vernissage

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TRANS_CONNECTED


17:00 –
einBuch.haus

TRANS_CONNECTED a audiovisual real-time performance on the occasion of the catalogue release INVISYLLABES - Moving Space by Claudia Schmitz

Claudia Schmitz - Live Moving Image onto Scultpure Sabine Ercklentz - trumpet, electronics Nicola L. Hein - guitar, electronics

On the occasion of the catalogue release INVISYLLABES - Moving Space by Claudia Schmitz, the artist invites her two colleagues Sabine Ercklentz and Nicola L. Hein, with whom she is working together since many years on various projects, to a real-time performance at einBuch.haus - the gallery representing her artist's books.

Following the performance, the catalogue INVISYLLABELS, which will be published by Kerber Verlag at the beginning of the year, will be presented. The catalogue was designed in collaboration with Dokho Shin.

Invisyllables is the first volume in her monograph, which is based on the concept of an open archive. The three volumes in the archive, entitled Moving Space, Moving Air, Moving Line each convey alternative phenomenological depictions while reciprocally integrating the others. Invisyllables is dedicated to Moving Space and shows current series of work and collaborations of this internationally acclaimed artist.

In conversation with colleagues and with the help of many short comments by international companions, the catalogue invites you on a journey through Claudia Schmitz's oeuvre, which is strongly characterised by collaborative work.

Book-Release

INVISYLLABLES Moving Space Claudia Schmitz Kerber Verlag

Link: https://www.kerberverlag.com/de/1675/claudia-schmitz

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SABINE ERCKLENTZ https://vimeo.com/channels/1506252 . is a composer, musician and performer living in Berlin. She works both with live electronics and fixed media, frequently collaborating with other artists and in transdisciplinary projects. The choice of format depends on context and is diverse, ranging from concerts and audio-visual works to performances, installations and audio pieces. She is a member of the composer/performer ensemble N.E.W. and the Trio Contagious, among others. Performances and exhibitions (selection)

at A L’ARME Festival, Berlin, Eclat Festival, Stuttgart, Ruhrtriennale, Bochum, CTM, Berlin, AdK, Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Foro International Mexico-City (Mexico), FIMAV Victoriaville (Kanada), Red Cat, Los Angeles (USA), CalArts (USA), Rencontres chorégraphiques, Paris, (Frankreich), Ars Electronica (Österreich), Moderna Museet, Stockholm (Schweden),Taktlos, Zürich (Schweiz), City of Women, Ljubljana (Slowenien), Wittener Tagen für Neue Kammermusik, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Forum Neue Musik, Jazzfestival Moers, Jazztage Leverkusen, Jazzfestival Leipzig, Wie es Ihr gefällt, ZKM Karlsruhe, Tanzplattform Deutschland, Dresden.

Nicola L. Hein https://nicolahein.com/

Nicola L. Hein is a guitarist, sound artist, composer and researcher in music and aesthetics. His work is driven by the interaction of sound and space, light, movement, thought and the becoming of embodied and intermedial intelligence in aesthetic systems, community and technology. In his artistic work he uses physical and electronic extension of the electric guitar, sound installations, cybernetic human-machine interaction with A.I. interactive music systems, Augmented Reality, telematic real-time art, ambisonic sound projection, instrument building, conceptual compositions. Inter-media works with video art, dance, literature and other art forms constitute another focus of his practice. With the support of the Goethe Institute and many other institutions, his artworks have been realized in more than 30 countries worldwide. He worked with many of the world's most established musicians in the field of sound art and improvised music. Furthermore, he works as a researcher in the field of aesthetics, gives lectures at different institutions around the world and, following an invitation of Prof. George E. Lewis, has been a visiting scholar at the music department of Columbia University in New York.

CLAUDIA SCHMITZ http://www.cces-claudiaschmitz.de

“My work starts where the media intersect.“

As a timebased media artist, Claudia Schmitz explores paradigms of media translation in a transmedial context - as a solo artist as well as in collaborative projects. She deals with synaesthesia, identity (also by investigating and incorporating human and artificial intelligence), real and virtual spaces (VR/AR), interactivity and reactivity, intermediality, socio-urban structures and questioning hegemonic perception and sustainability. Claudia Schmitz uses pneumatic sculpture, multidimensional drawing, moving image on sculpture and food to make new forms of space, sound and experience accessible. In assuming temporary states, discarding and reinventing themself, her work addresses the oscillation on the degree of being part and not part of the image and explores the radius of media arrangements and the possibility of participation.

Thanks to the support of the Goethe Institute and many other institutions, her work has been developed and exhibited in more than 20 countries. She has received many international awards. Her works are represented internationally in public and private collections.

“I am not interested in the modernity of technology as such but in its capacities for creating new imaginary dimensions. My arrangements constantly assume temporary states, reject and re-invent themselves, exploring the space-time continuum, rendering visible and questioning its borders. They investigate the limitations of media arrangements and modes of participation.“

einBuch.haus Florastraße 61 13187 Berlin

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