48h Neukölln 2026
Un-setting / Re-setting
2026-07-03
For this year's 48h Neukölln festival, Prachtsaal Studio presents a studio residents exhibition alongside a programme of live, audio-visual, and performance-based works by resident and invited artists. By bringing external performers into dialogue with our studio community, we aim to expand the conversation beyond the boundaries of the exhibition space.
The festival theme, resonates strongly with our situation as an artist-run studio. Titled UN- SETTING / RE-SETTING, the exhibition grows out of the realities of shared artistic practice. Twenty artists from different countries work under one roof, negotiating space, language, and ways of working. Here, borders are not abstract concepts but everyday conditions that shape what is created and how.
Each artist follows their own path, yet it is the encounters between practices that generate new possibilities. Material investigations meet cultural references, ambitions challenge perspectives, and communities overlap. Ideas circulate, collide, and transform.
The exhibition explores these points of contact and tension. Some works remain autonomous, while others reveal what happens when different artistic languages occupy the same space. Rather than seeking to dissolve differences, UN-SETTING / RE-SETTING considers what can emerge from negotiation, diversity, and uncertainty.
Together, the works form a shifting landscape of in-between states, inviting visitors to navigate the boundaries that connect and separate us.
Program
Friday July 3rd, open 18-22Uhr
20:00 - "swallow it!" performance by Romina Geppert
Contemporary dance. The solo swallow it! explores the countless facets of our being and the acceptance that we are allowed to carry many different roles, traits, and characteristics within us.
Duration: 5min
Saturday July 4th, open 14-22Uhr
17:00 - RED - ROT performance by Ilana Palmgren (Fin)
RED - ROT is a physical performance approaching dissociation as a possible way of existing. Fragments of movement, electronic sound design and visuals open a space to consider how transformation might be allowed rather than hidden. The performance invites the audience into a shared sensorial experience where perception itself becomes synaesthetic.
Duration: 40min
19:00 - live, audio-visual performances
Luna Nane (Ger) - modular hybrid live set
Luna Nane is a creative technologist and media artist, focusing on interfaces and immersive spaces. Her modular hybrid live set is a showcase of recent interaction studies with the monome grid, which applies music theory and generative composition tools to the playing surface of this intricate programmable instrument, and translates it to audio synthesis in an analog system.
Duration: 30-40min
Juan Duarte (Mex) - audio live set
Smoking Mirror (Tezcatlipoca) is a media performance that explores the relationship between weather data and divinatory rituals, drawing inspiration from weather mythology of Aztec culture. At its heart, the performance explores how ancient practices of interpreting atmospheric phenomena can be reimagined through contemporary technology, creating a bridge between the past and the present.
Duration: 30-40min
Sebastian Carrizosa (Col) & Federico Torres (Mex) - audiovisual live set
[ˈmɛmᵊri] is an audiovisual project developed by Latin American artists currently residing in Berlin, Germany. The proposal seeks to preserve and reactivate the cultural memory of Mexico and Colombia through a sensory experience that integrates sound and image, establishing a bridge between the territories of origin and the European space from which the project is produced. The project stems from the migrant experience of its creators and the need to keep alive the link with the landscapes, traditions, and everyday scenes of Latin America. Through experimental music, sound design, and audiovisual creation, the project proposes a contemporary form of cultural preservation that moves away from the traditional documentary approach and situates itself in a poetic and reflective terrain.
Sunday July 5th
15:00
Oriental Sexpress, drag performance
Duration 20 min
Vivi Bikini, drag performance
Duration 20 min
17:30
Number 117 performance / experimental theater by Christina Themeli (Gr)
Number 117 immerses the audience in a system that controls everything — yet nothing is explained. Malfunctioning objects, absurd cues, and slightly askew gestures hint at rules that are never revealed. It explores the porous boundaries between inside and outside, action and consequence, and the invisible structures shaping behavior. The performance unfolds in a sparse, unspecific workspace — a desk, a chair, a microphone, a fan, a paper shredder — where tasks, cues, and signals dictate every movement. Timing is precise but subtly off. Actions are carried out seriously, yet nothing resolves, producing a tense rhythm of dedication and absurdity.
Duration: 40 min
