HAUNT
Opening: Sept. 26.– 6pm
Exhibition: Sept. 26. – Oct. 11.
As in the 2024 edition, HAUNT/Frontviews—a center for art and ecology in the heart of Berlin—will once again serve as a central exhibition venue in 2026. The complex consists of a pavilion, studio and office buildings, as well as a communal garden and inner courtyard. After its original use by Berlin’s Department of Green Spaces, the site lay fallow for many years, allowing flora and fauna to develop largely undisturbed. Today, the grounds are characterized by wild growth and the coexistence of rare plant and animal species.
Artists
Jasmina Al-Qaisi
Lisa W Carlson
Organisms Democracy
Txulunh Gakran/João Voia
Impulsive Habitat
Gary Hill
Molasses Industries
Brandon LaBelle
Tintin Patrone
David Stalling
Staffan Westerlund
FLUTGRABEN
Opening: Oct. 2nd – 2pm
Exhibition: Oct. 4. –17.
The project space of Flutgraben e.V., with its industrial architecture, serves as a multiperspectival conference and discussion venue for the DYSTOPIA symposium. Lectures, presentations, and workshops take place here, thematically connected to the festival program and complemented by artistic contributions. The Flutgraben multi-purpose hall also functions as an extended exhibition space as well as a venue for performances and concerts.
Artists
Charly Nijensohn
a.o.
BMM
Opening: Sept 25st
Exhibition: Sept. 26. – Oct. 11.
The Berlin Museum of Medical History at the Charité is located on the historic grounds of the Charité Clinic (Campus Mitte). As part of the DYSTOPIA Biennale, an on-site artistic work will engage with this location; in addition, a performance evening will take place on October 10th in the museum’s historic lecture hall ruin—a place where listening and science converge like nowhere else.
Artists
Kirstin Burckhardt
PUBLIC SPACE
Opening: Sept. 26st– 6pm
Exhibition: Sept. 26. – Oct. 11.
In dialogue with the adjacent Tiergarten, interventions in public space are planned that function as sound-artistic interventions in the urban environment. In addition, the connecting paths between HAUNT and the Tiergarten are well suited for site-specific sound walks.
Artists
Mischa Leinkauf
Ben Nurgenc
Organisms Democracy
Tintin Patrone
Georg Werner
INSTAGRAM RE-POSTED
Opening: Sept 1st
Exhibition: Sept. 26. – Oct. 17.
The question of the extent to which social media transform our perception of the so-called “non-digital” world—while simultaneously structuring social interactions, power relations, and forms of participation—forms a central theoretical reference point of the series. “Re-Posted” understands social media not merely as a distribution channel, but as a performative space of discursive negotiation. The focus is on minority voices as well as socio- and cultural-political discourses that are often marginalized within algorithmically shaped publics.
FLOATING BERLIN
Opening: Sept. 25st– 6pm
Exhibition: Sept. 25. – Oct. 4.
Over the years, a diverse landscape of plants, animals, and algae has developed on the grounds of Floating Berlin. This site can be understood as a form of “natureculture” or as a “third landscape.” Students from the Sound Studies program at the Berlin University of the Arts will temporarily activate the site and present a parallel exhibition of sound-based artistic works there.
Artists:
Yuchin Chen
Fatma Zeliha Dogusan
Simon Hill
Helen Tuggle
Vicente Yanez
Martina Paz Mella Yáñez
DEEP SEE
Performance: Oct. 8th – 6pm
Deep See performance evenings, organized by Café Babette, regularly take place in the brewhouse of the KINDL Centre. As part of the DYSTOPIA Biennale, the festival will take over the curatorial direction of one of these evenings and integrate it into the official festival program.
Artists:
Vica Pacheco
a.o.