Now in its fourth year, Vorspiel takes place as a city-wide programme where over 30 Berlin-based initiatives and venues invite the public to a series of exhibition openings, performances, interventions, artist talks, and special events.
An initiative piloted in 2010, each year’s Vorspiel series invites participating partners to develop programmes reflecting on CTM and transmediale festival themes. The 2016 festival themes New Geographies (CTM) and Conversation Piece (transmediale) were announced in the fall of 2015 along with an open call through which this year's Vorspiel partners have been selected. Each partner elaborates a project or initiative representing their own individual or networked perspective of the themes. Connecting a wide array of cultural institutions, independent spaces, and art venues, Vorspiel 2016 highlights the diversity of Berlin’s lively and multifaceted cultural life.
15. January 2016, 18:00, the Vorspiel Opening begins with a speech of Tim Renner, Berlin Secretary of State for Culture, followed a discussion featuring representatives of Berlin project spaces. Further lectures include an artist Talk with Evelina Domnitch & Dmitry Gelfand (CTM / ENCAC Network Artists in Residence), and a performative Lecture by Fluctuating Images.
The evening also assembles a diverse array of installations, performances and DJ sets within ACUD's club, studio, gallery and outdoor courtyard.
Installations
Jürgen Ostarhild – "#160116" pres by L40 Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
"Preliminary Material for 2022: Maximilian Schmoetzer" pres by Ashley Berlin
Valentina Besegher pres by Labor Neunzehn
"Hypernatural Sounds #2: Unheard" pres by SomoS & Pedro Lopes
Performances
Julia Holzberger – "Passion is Chaos" pres by American Whirlpools
Doron Sadja pres by SPEKTRUM | art science community
autoscopie – "Sit Behind My Eyes" pres by Apartment Project Berlin e.V.
"Experiencing Conversation" pres by School of Machines, Making & Make-Believe
DJs Cobeia, Mareike Bautz, Remco Packbiers, Mobiletti Girardischi
Venue
ACUD Macht Neu
Veteranenstr 21, 10119 Berlin
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Quayola: Iconographies
NOME, 14 January to 5 March
VIJNA
Panke e.V., 16 January to 21 January
Marshalling inc.
ZÖNOTEKA, 16 January to 13 February
Syntax Error. Misunderstandings as a creative process
Green House Berlin, 16 January to 21 January
Yara Mekawei – The Breakfast
uqbar, 28 January to 7 February
Ex und Hopp Gesellschaft by Jeanne Fredac
Wander Atelier, 1 to 12 February, 12:00 - 18:00
Ivar Veermäe Exhibition
Green Hill Gallery, 22 January to 4 February
SMOKING MIRROR by Otavio Schipper & Sergio Krakowski
Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité
January 23 Mon, Wed–Sat, 12 noon – 7 pm
"NYMPHAE_M RAUSCH ECK" - An Exhibition by Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag
Galerie Wedding, 28 January to 19 March
PUBLIC SECRETS
Panke e.V., 29 January to 6 February
K-9_topology: Hybrid Family
Freies Museum Berlin, 29 January to 2 February, 11 am, 2 pm, 5 pm
please rsvp: info@ kapelica.org
One Century – Five Regimes, Media Memorials in Berlin‘s Cityscape & Tools for Activism
designtransfer, UdK Berlin, 2 February until 7 February
Urban Media Gallery: LIAM YOUNG – NEW CITY
.CHB Collegium Hungaricum, 2 February - 7 February, 19:00 - 23:00
Without Firm Ground – Vilém Flusser and the Arts
Closing Event: Lecture Performance
Akademie der Künste, 17:00 -19:00
Quayola: Iconographies
Exhibition Opening
NOME, 18:00 - open end
Scope Session
Talk
Panke e.V., 20:00 - open end
Vorspiel 2016 Opening
ACUD macht neu, 18:00 (see above for details)
#160116
Performance / Installation
L40 – Kunstverein am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 19:00 - open end
Marshalling inc.
Launch Party
ZÖNOTEKA., 19:00 - 22:00
VIJNA
Exhibition Opening
Panke e.V., 20:00
Error 404 by Roi Weinstein
Music Performance
Greenhouse Berlin, 20:00
Sound Anatomy I: Richard Scott & Audrey Chen
Performance
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
the rise of the about:blank
Music Performance
Greenhouse Berlin, 20:00
decalque:imagemtempo
Music Performance
Greenhouse Berlin, 21:00
EAV @ Urban Spree
Music Performance and Djs
Urban Spree, 22.30 - open end
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Sound Performance
Sad Mornings, 18:00 - 21:00
Verifying Art and Science
Panel Discussion
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
eXperimontag with ANSGAR WILKEN and TRIGAL
Concert
Madame CLAUDE, 21:30 - 00:00
Sonic Code Session
Showcase and Open Conversation
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
Mental States and its Relation to Brain Activity with Professor Dr. John-Dylan Haynes
Talk
Schering Stiftung, 18:00 - 20:00
UKIYO-E PANKE CINEMA
Screening Panke e.V., 20:00
Smell Lab: Collected Smells
Showcase
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
Preliminary Material for 2022: Maximilian Schmoetzer
Ashley Berlin, 19:00 - 22:00
Spectrum by Cristiano Cesolari in collaboration with Enzo Pietropaolo
Installation
Peninsula e.V., 17:00 - 21:00
Open House - Open Studios, Installations and Performances
Open House
ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, 19:00-22:30
Cont.Music
Performances and Installation
American Whirlpools, 19:00-02:00
Radio Aporee + Budhaditya Chattopadhyay + Gilles Aubry
Field Recording Night
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
autoscopie: Sit behind my eyes
Music: Rony Nehme
Exhibition Opening
Apartment Project, 18:00 - open end
Free Event
Kairo Is Koming (KIK)
Discussion and Music
ACUD MACHT NEU, 18:00 - open end
Free Event
Cont.Music with Lukas Foehres, Cass. and Dudal
Sound Performances
American Whirlpools, 19:00 - 02:00
Ticket Price: Donation
LEAFaudio Talk about DIY music synthesisers
Talk
Panke e.V., 20:00
Free Event
'No Patent Pending'
Performance Night
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00-22:00
Free Event
Sit behind my eyes
Exhibition
Apartment Project, 10:00 -19:00
Free Event
Performative & Immersive Art Meetup
Meet-Up, Discussion with Spektrum, FIBER and ReTune
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 10:00 — 18:00
Free Event
Marco Donnarumma
Artist Talk
Green Hill Gallery, 19:00
Ticket Price: Donation
Cont.Music with Sferics and Perfect Whisper
Sound Performances
American Whirlpools, 19:00 - 02:00
Ticket Price: Donation
Sarah Hermanutz Mind Blind: Therapeutic Interventions for Human/Non-Human Communications
Performance Lecture
Art Laboratory Berlin, 20:00 - 22:30
Free event
SPEKTRUM & FIBER present: A/V performance evening
Performance
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
IZZJAZZ and TAUCHER present: P A R A E S T H E S I A
Performance
Panke e.V., 20:00
Ticket Price TBA
Panke e.V. SCOPE SESSION
Talk
Panke e.V., 20:00 - open end
Ticket Price TBA
FIBER presents: A/V
Performance Evening
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
Free Event
Nenad Popov Art Science Swap - two heads are better than one
Workshop
Art Laboratory Berlin, 14:00 - 18:00
Free Event
Cont.Music with Scarlit Port, Jakob Erikson and Lukas Grundmann
Sound Performances
American Whirlpools, 19:00 - 02:00
Ticket Price: Donation
SPEKTRUM & FIBER invite: The LIMA Collection
Screening
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
Free Event
ZÖNOTEKA Film Night
Screening
ZÖNOTEKA, 19:00 – 22:00
Remote Controll Orchestra Workshop
Workshop
Institut für alles Mögliche, 12:00 -18:00
1 day 10 Euro // 6 days 50 euro
Cryptoparty + ‘Intangible Threat’
Workshop and Exhibition
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00-22:00
Ticket Price TBA
eXperimontag with ONDNESS + MMMOOONNNOOO
Concert
Madame CLAUDE, 21:30-00:00
Ticket Price: Donation
Remote Controll Orchestra Workshop
Workshop
Institut für alles Mögliche, 12:00 -18:00
1 day 10 Euro // 6 days 50 euro
Urban Media Kitchen: Cultural projects in Europe and the Arab world
Talk
Public Art Lab e.V., 19:00 - 23:00
Free Event
LIAM YOUNG – NEW CITY (2014)/ URBAN MEDIA GALLERY
Public Art Lab, 19:00 - 23:00
Free Event
Live Cinema lab
Showcase
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
Free Event
Public Art Lab. Liam Young – New City URBAN MEDIA GALLERY
Screening
Public Art Lab, 19:00 - 22:00
Free Event
Citizen Kino
Performance
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
Free Event
Remote Control Orchestra Workshop
Workshop
Institut für Alles Mögliche, 12:00 -18:00
Yara Mekawei – The Breakfast
Opening with Live Performance by the artist
uqbar
Marcello Lussana
Artist Talk
Green Hill Gallery, 19:00
Public Art Lab Liam Young – New City URBAN MEDIA GALLERY
Screening
Public Art Lab, 19:00 - 22:00
NYMPHAE_M RAUSCH ECK
Exhibition Opening
Galerie Wedding, 19:00 - 23:00
Synthetic Sound
Screening
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
Loopsider
Sound Performance
Loophole, 20:30 - 04:00
BYOD / Bring Your Own Data (Day 1)
Two Day Workshop
Labor Neunzehn, 10:00 -17:00
Remote Controll Orchestra Workshop
Workshop
Institut für Alles Mögliche, 12:00 -18:00
Margherita Pevere
Artist Talk
Green Hill Gallery, 19:00
Safe and Sound: the Chase by Alonah Rode feat Mule Driver
Sound Video Installation
Vesselroom Project, 18:00
Vermisst by Sesperinsi (Özgür Erkök Moroder)
Performance
Apartment Project-Berlin e.V., 19:00 - 22:00
Light movement
Screening
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20.00 - 22.00
PUBLIC SECRETS
Exhibition
Panke.e.V., 20:00
GLITCH BERLIN
Performance Night
Panke.e.V., 22:00
Cashmere Radio & Marmo Music present Wo Land Showcase
Music Performance
ACUD MACHT NEU, 22.00 - 05:00
Beyond the Eyes: 'fear less Love more' pres. by musé
Loophole Artspace, 22:00 - 06:00
K-9_topology: Hybrid Family
Exhibition Opening
Freies Museum Berlin
BYOD / Bring Your Own Data (Day 2)
Two Day Workshop
Labor Neunzehn, 10:00 -17:00
Remote Control Orchestra
Workshop
Institut für Alles Mögliche, 12:00 -18:00
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Workshop for Kids
Echo Buchhandlung,12:00-20:00
Mapping
Installation
Loophole Artspace, 17:00 - 05:00
Ivar Veermäe
Artist Talk and Screening
Green Hill Gallery, 19:00
SPEKTRUM ReConnect
Communities Table and Party
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 19:00 - open end
Science Café with Berlin iGEM
Discussion
Art Laboratory Berlin, 15:00-18:00
In Search of Johns' Kingdom: Electronic Music In The New East
Screening and Discussion
ACUD MACHT NEU, 18:00
Ex und Hopp Gesellschaft by Jeanne Fredac
Exhibition Opening
Wander Atelier, 18:00 - 21:00
Hypernatural Sounds #2: Unheard
Concert
SomoS, 19:00 - 23:00
eXperimontag with Concrete Cosmos playing G.A.I. and MATZU SCHMIDT feat. GRUENREKORDER
Concert
Madame CLAUDE, 21:30 - 00:00
Recplay – Robert Pravda
Open Rehearsal Days
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 10:00 - 18:00
open.port/THF
Tour of the Tempelhof area
Meetingpoint: Schillerpromenade 4, 12049 Berlin, 11:00 - 13:00
One Century – Five Regimes, Media Memorials in Berlin‘s Cityscape & Tools for Activism
Exhibition Opening
designtransfer, UdK Berlin, 19:00 -22:00
Recplay – Robert Pravda
Open Rehearsal Days
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 10:00 - 18:00
open.port/THF
Salon
Meetingpoint: Schillerpromenade 4, 12049 Berlin, 15:00 - 19:00
MUTANTENKINO
Screening
Panke e.V., 20:00
The Future of Art in a Post-Work Society
Panel Discussion
Kulturpessimismus pur, 15:00 - 17:00
Marshalling Inc. w/Adam Hruby (Brno), Jacques Kustod (Exitab, Bratislava), Splatter (UH Fest, Küss Mich, Budapest)
Performance & Concert
ZÖNOTEKA, 17:00 - 21:00
Skype Duet by Per Aspera
Performance
Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi, 19:00 - 22:00
PUBLIC SECRETS
Finissage
Panke e.V., 20:00
Performance Night
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00-22:00
Sound Portraits
Listening Session
SPEKTRUM – art science community, 20:00 - 22:00
Vorspiel is organized by reSource transmedial culture berlin, and the CTM and transmediale festivals, in collaboration with the project spaces and initiatives participating in this edition. If you are interested in contacting the reSource team and getting to know Berlin spaces and initiatives active in the fields of art, technologies, and cultural production, please subscribe to resource-net, the reSource trasmedial culture mailing list.
Various venues across Berlin
Opening: 15.1., 18:00 at ACUD Macht Neu
Runs: 16.1 – 7.2.2016