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

wrangel66 Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Vernissage

panke.gallery Vernissage

Sat, 17.01.
16:00, studio baustelle Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Lecture, Screening

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Vernissage

18:00, Halfsister Exhibition



Sun, 18.01.
05:00, Hotel Continental - Art Space in Exile Performance

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition


15:00, studio baustelle Exhibition, Performance, Installation, Lecture, Screening

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

Tue, 20.01.
19:00, Studio dB Concert, Performance, Installation

Wed, 21.01.

19:30, Studio dB Concert, Performance

Thu, 22.01.
19:00, Jaime Levy / TVOD Productions Concert, Performance

19:30, alpha nova & galerie futura Performance, Installation, Screening

Fri, 23.01.
18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

Sat, 24.01.
16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

20:00, Bodrum-Berlin Performance


Shared Frame Exhibition, Concert, DJ set, Hybrid Event

Sun, 25.01.
15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

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.
18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

19:00, Baumhaus Performance

Illulab at Illuseum Berlin Concert, Installation

Illulab at Illuseum Berlin Concert, Installation

Sat, 31.01.
16:00 Performance

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition

18:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition


19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Sun, 01.02.
15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Finissage

15:00, Bodrum-Berlin Exhibition

16:00, Halfsister Exhibition


17:00, Dreifaltigkeitskirche Concert

19:00, Uferstudios Performance

Thu, 15.01.

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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Studio dB Uferstrasse 8–11, Tor A, Studio A14 13357 Berlin

Studio DB is a Polymorphic Creative Infrastructure at the service of local artists. A collective art project run by a team of multidisciplinary artists, we developed a technical excellence in the audiovisual field. Our mission is to give a stage to emerging artists and cultural producers, helping them grow confident, inciting cultural collaborations and bringing our technical know-how to empower underrepresented artists and communities.

Wed, 21.01.2026 RESONANT FUTURES / 共鳴する未来 Doors open at 19.30 Concerts 20:00 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. Line Up: Makoto Inoue (JP) Francesco Mancori (IT/DE) Makoto Sakamoto (JP) JiuQ (JP) & Chuuu (JP)


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