Vorspiel 2024

A citywide program by spaces and initiatives around 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.


Image Gallery

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.


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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.


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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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DISKURS Berlin Novalisstrasse 7 10115 Berlin

DISKURS Berlin, which is based in the German capital, initiates, arranges, and develops an international network of contacts between the contemporary art scenes in Germany and Korea. DISKURS Berlin focuses primarily on advising public and private institutions, managing projects, and arranging contacts with up-and-coming artists and curators. Many factors have changed the global art world and shifts have taken place. Economic growth in Asia and the accompanying rise of a significant number of art collectors and buyers has expedited dynamically the globalisation of the art world. The presence of art from Korea, and Asia in general, has increased tremendously in recent years and this art is much in demand. Yet the contemporary art scene, as well as private collections in Asia, are still relatively new phenomena, and there is often insufficient access to the Western art scene, which hinders fruitful exchanges and debate. And on the other hand the Western art world seeks access to the new and developing art scenes in Asia to reach the buyers and collectors there. However, this is frequently unsuccessful because the appropriate contacts are lacking.

DISKURS Berlin has such contacts and acts as a liaison between institutions, artists, curators, and collectors in Germany and Asia, particularly in Korea. For some years now major biennials have been organised in Korea; the Gwangju Biennial, the Busan Biennial, and the Mediacity Seoul. These are not only regarded as important events in Asia, but also in the Western art world. In addition, there is a growing interest in Korea in creating museums of contemporary art, off-space galleries, and artist residency programs in the larger cities. Since the end of the crisis in the world economy the outlook for realising such projects is better than ever before.

As negotiator and facilitator between Germany and Korea, DISKURS Berlin’s mission is to achieve structural improvements within the art scene, and to organise contacts and establish a network of artists, curators, art theorists, and art scholars.