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FIXTURES #9 - Sharon Paz / Fragmented Reality – Technology, Memory and Home at December 8th, 2025
We are delighted to welcome our next guest in the FIXTURES event series: Sharon Paz. The artist uses technology both as a medium and as a metaphor for the construction of non-linear narratives. In her lecture, she will present several of her interactive projects in which the audience can participate.
FIXTURES #8 - Susanne Bosch / Translation.Bridging.Transfer on November 17th, 2025
At FIXTURES #8 we are very happy about our interesting guest: Susanne Bosch. Susanne Bosch will show several own works and some new projects, which are developped in her collaboration with Ulrike Zimmermann in their joint Studio Bosch.
The central question in her lecture is: But what does the translation of a process-based artistic work into another art form suitable for exhibition and the
Polygon Picnic | Screening in Media Workshop - 2025
Documentation and Infos about Film screening with 34 contributions from international artists and users of the media workshop on two evenings: 14./15.10.2025.
- Polygon Picnic | Screening in the Media Workshop 2025
“Polygon Picnic” – this year's screening by Media Workshop! Thirty-four artists and users of the Media Workshop will present their audiovisual works over two evenings.
Rumours of Noise - lecture #4
Rumours of Noise lecture #4 of „Media and Music Talks“ in the Media Lab of Media Workshop
17.09.2025, 7 pm | Frauke Boggasch and Manfred Miersch
with a Live-Act and our guests: Ira Hadžić and Werner Durand
FIXTURES #7 – Yasuto Yura / VIDEO PARTY on September 22th, 2025
We are delighted to welcome our Japanese guest, Professor Yasuto Yura, to FIXTURES #7 – Jour Fixe at the Media Workshop in September. He will present his artistic work, his project VIDEO PARTY and show us some interesting videos by other Japanese artists and himself.
VIDEO PARTY 11 Screening in Kyoto - 1.-3. August 2025
The cooperation with VIDEO PARTY in Japan is ongoing in 2025 - Screening and Exhibition in Kyoto with participation of Berlin Media Artists of the Media Workshop.
19.06.2025 | Survey about the Space Needs of Berlin’s Independent Arts Community | 2025
Time period of the survey from June 2, 2025 until July 20, 2025: All professional artists working within Berlin’s independent arts community are warmly invited to take part in the current survey regarding artistic working spaces and rehearsal spaces in Berlin.
FIXTURES #6 – Adnan Softić & Nina Softić / The KLIMATON Project on June 30th, 2025
At FIXTURES #6 - Jour Fixe of the Media Workshop we are very glad to welcome: Adnan Softić and Nina Softić. The artist-duo will present their project KLIMATON.
Culture needs spaces 2025 network meeting
Network meeting of Berlin's actors on the topic of work, rehearsal, performance and production spaces for art and culture. In terms of cultural and urban development policy, Berlin currently seems toothless and risks losing art and culture. We believe that the state of Berlin and the districts have a responsibility when it comes to state-owned real estate and would like to see clever models of
Rumours of Noise - lecture #3
„Media and Music Talks“ | Rumours of Noise - 24.04.2025
In reference to the term “Deep Listening” coined by the American composer and avant-gardist Pauline Oliveros, we are dedicating the third part of our event series to a Deep Droning Special.
FIXTURES #4 – Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder in conversation with Kevin Rittberger / Embodied data and planetary thinking on April 28th, 2025
At the fourth Jour Fixe event of the Media Workshop we are delighted to welcome three guests: Cornelia Sollfrank, Felix Stalder and Kevin Rittberger. At FIXTURES #4 they will speak about the contemporary in embodied data practices and its relation to the planetary.
FIXTURES #3 - Martin Sulzer feat. Farhad Farzali / Artificial Art on March 17th, 2025
For the third FIXTURES event on March, 17th, 2025 Martin Sulzer is our guest and will talk about artificiality as a central element in his artistic work, be it 3D rendering, synthesizers or artificial intelligence.
FIXTURES #2 - Henning Christiansen Archive / Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen on February 24th, 2025
For the second FIXTURES event on February, 24, 2025 Rachel Dagnall & Thorbjørn Reuter Christiansen are our guests. They will present a selection of video and sound recordings from the archive of the Danish FLUXUS artist and composer Henning Christiansen (1932-2008) that have just been digitized since beginning of February in the Media Workshop.
FIXTURES #1 - Sérgio Taborda / Sequence 22 on January 27th, 2025
With the start of the new year 2025, we are glad to launch the FIXTURES event series in the Media Lab of the Medienwerkstatt. For the first event on January, 27th, we have invited the Portuguese artist and researcher Sérgio Taborda.
Rumours of Noise - lecture #2
„Media and Music Talks“ | Rumours of Noise
This time, the focus is on an in-depth exploration of the topic of “drone” and its precursors, away from the musical mainstream. An excursion into the musical stylistic device known since the second half of the 1960s as “free form freak-out” leads to more contemporary variations of noise and drone, such as drone doom and female voice noise.
Save the Date: 50 years of Druckwerkstatt anniversary celebrations at Bethanien
The Druckwerkstatt cordially invites you to celebrate this great anniversary with all employees, users and friends of the workshops and facilities in the Kulturwerk of the bbk berlin!
From November 15, 2024, the Decolonial Monument will be open to the public!
From November 15, the decolonial memorial Earth Nest by The Lockward Collective (Jeannette Ehlers, Rolando Vázquez and Patricia Kaersenhout) will be accessible in front of the Berlin Global Village.
27.08.2024 | Press release from the Office for Art in Public Space: kunststadt stadtkunst 71-2024 has been published!
The professional journal kunststadt/stadtkunst is published annually by the Office for Art in Public Space (Büro für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum im kulturwerk des bbk berlin). It provides information on the latest developments in art in public spaces in Berlin and ensures transparency with regard to state commissions for art in public spaces in the state of Berlin and its districts.
Successful kick-off event in the media lab: Rumours of Noise - lecture #1
The first event in the “Rumors of Noise” series took place on 15.08.2024 in the Medienlabor/Kesselhaus of the Medienwerkstatt. Frauke Boggasch and Manfred Miersch hosted the pilot event as the start of a new lecture series. In loose succession, such lecture events as part of Media and Music Talks will invite people to listen to (loud) music together in a real space, which is thus temporarily