Kirkpinar
20:15
Sunday
Caner Teker
Ort: Kuppelhalle
In Kirkpinar caner teker presents traditional Turkish oil wrestling (Yağlı Güreş) as a performative space where history, masculinity, intimacy, and vulnerability intersect. Free entry - no ticket needed. We expect this to be busy, please come early to avoid disappointment.
OBLIVION
19:00
Sunday
Javier Blanco
Ort: Kuppelhalle
OBLIVION is an immersive performance that combines dance, performative action, living archives, video mapping, and digital technologies to explore how bodies carry and transmit memory. Drawing on Argentina's recent history, the work traces how political struggle, trauma, and resistance persist across generations. Free entry - no ticket needed. We expect this to be busy, please come early to avoid disappointment.
Dinner-Ceremony AŞ
18:00
Sunday
TATAR KYZ:LAR
Ort: Betonhalle
AŞ is an immersive dinner performance inspired by the Tatar ancestral ritual of the same name. Set within the projected game world of AŞ, it reflects on Tatar identity, migration, queerness, and cultural memory through poetry, music, and ritual. Registration required.
Kishi the Vampire
15:00
Sunday
Royce Ng Runzi Luo
Ort: Kuppelhalle
Kishi the Vampire reimagines the life of Japanese politician and war criminal Nobusuke Kishi as a vampire story, combining live performance and rendered video to interrogate the entanglements of political power, historical violence, and mythmaking. Free entry - no ticket needed.
All Technology Is Ghost and Ruin (Part 2)
18:00
Sunday
Videoclub
Ort: Betonhalle
The film programme All Technology Is Ghost and Ruin (Part 2) brings together experimental moving-image works that approach technology not as a promise of progress but as a site of haunting, collapse, and speculative memory. Free entry - no ticket needed.
The Bear’s Den
16:00
Sunday
Kostis Stafylakis
Ort: Betonhalle
InThe Bear’s Den, Kostis Stafylakis performs surgical interventions on bear-suited performers to uncover Soviet-era objects hidden beneath their costumes, revealing the bear as a cultural figure shaped by folklore, ideology, internet culture, and queer imaginaries. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Narrating Evidence. Truth and Counter-Truth Production
13:00
Sunday
Paolo Cirio, Foundland Collective, Dani Gal, Margarita Tsomou
Ort: Atelier 2
The panel Narrating Evidence asks what counts as evidence and who has the authority to produce it. Bringing together artists and researchers, the panel explores how historical truth is constructed, challenged, and made visible through artistic practice. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Sunday at the Coup
13:30
Sunday
Giselle Beiguelman, Lucas Bambozzi
Ort: Betonhalle
The filmSunday at the Coup reconstructs Brazil's attempted coup of 8 January 2023 through security camera footage and parliamentary testimony, revealing political violence as part of a longer history that continues to shape the present. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Exhibition
11:00
Sunday
Ana María Millán, Charlott Eifler, Chong Yan Chuah, Clarissa Thieme, Felix Pacholleck, Gabriel Massan, Göksu Kunak, Hussein Shikha, Kostis Stafylakis, Maithu Bùi, Margarete Jahrmann, Qusay Awad, Raisan Hameed, Simon Soon, Yara Richter
The exhibition brings together artists who explore how media shape the ways we remember. Moving across archives, algorithms, landscapes, games, rituals, and digital networks, the works reveal memory as something continuously produced through the technologies and infrastructures that make the past visible or erase it. Open all day.
Ort: Betonhalle
transmediale studio
11:00
Sunday
Ort: Betonhalle, transmediale studio
Federico Zurani, Laura Cugusi, Martyna Marciniak, Nada Zanhour, transmediale
On invitation by Transgressive Memory Festival, transmediale has curated a special showcase at their studio.
Digital Reenactment as Artistic Strategy. The Angel of History
11:00
Sunday
HUNITI GOLDOX
Ort: Atelier 1
This is an artist-run workshop by Huniti Goldox that explores reenactment as a practice of translation, speculation, and world-building, opening new ways of engaging with historical events, myths, and erased narratives. Registration required.
Resynthesising the Traditional. Unstable Hallucinations
19:30
Saturday
CTM, Stefan Fraunberger, Dania, Marcin Pietruszewski, Lukas De Clerck
Ort: Betonhalle
Resynthesising the Traditional is a music programme curated by CTM Festival, bringing together artists who rethink musical traditions and cultural heritage through experimental sound and transformative artistic practice. Doors open 19.30. Begins 20.00.
Every Monument Will Fall
18:00
Saturday
Ort: Atelier 2
Dan Hicks, Rebekka Ladewig
Every Monument Will Fall is the festival keynote by archaeologist, curator, and author Dan Hicks, examining how monuments become contested sites where power, memory, and historical violence are continuously renegotiated. Free entry - no ticket needed.
All Technology Is Ghost and Ruin (Part 1)
17:30
Saturday
Videoclub
Ort: Betonhalle
The film programme All Technology Is Ghost and Ruin (Part 1) brings together experimental moving-image works that approach technology not as a promise of progress but as a site of haunting, collapse, and speculative memory. Free entry - no ticket needed.
I cannot decolonize my body. Digital Attunement
17:00
Saturday
Tiara Roxanne
Ort: Betonhalle
I cannot decolonize my body. Digital Attunementis a guided participatory session by Tiara Roxanne that explores body memory through breath, voice, and collective presence, inviting participants into a shared practice of sensing, relation, and digital attunement. Registration required.
Narrating Power. Institutionalised Memory and Interference Strategies
16:00
Saturday
Bashir Bashir, Jie-Hyun Lim, Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, Margarita Tsomou
Ort: Atelier 2
The panel Narrating Power asks who determines which histories become part of public memory. Bringing together international scholars, the panel explores how institutions, political interests, and public conflict shape the ways history is narrated, remembered, and contested. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Open Studio
16:00
Saturday
Vanessa Amoah Opoku, Joy Weinberger
Ort: Atelier 1
In their Open Studio artists and designers Vanessa Amoah Opoku and Joy Weinberger offer an insight into their collaborative practice, tracing how a shared artistic language emerges across weaving, digital media, material experimentation, and collective making. Registration required.
Sunday at the Coup
15:15
Saturday
Giselle Beiguelman, Lucas Bambozzi
Ort: Betonhalle
The filmSunday at the Coup reconstructs Brazil's attempted coup of 8 January 2023 through security camera footage and parliamentary testimony, revealing political violence as part of a longer history that continues to shape the present. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Narrating Absence. Marginalised Histories and Their Cultural Practices
13:30
Saturday
Vera Tönsfeldt, Sara Morais dos Santos Bruss, Sista Ọlọ́runtóyìn, Margarita Tsomou
Ort: Atelier 2
The panel Narrating Absence asks who creates collective memory and how overlooked histories can be reclaimed. Bringing together artists, cultural practitioners, and scholars, the panel explores how artistic, activist, and community-based practices reshape the ways the past is collected, narrated, and shared. Free entry - no ticket needed.
Archival Grid: Artistic Strategies in the Tension Between Subjective and Forensic Contemporaneity
12:00
Saturday
Charlott Eifler, Clarissa Thieme
Ort: Betonhalle, Atelier 1
Artistic Strategies in the Tension of Subjective and Forensic Witnessing is an artist-run workshop exploring how forensic evidence, archives, and artistic practice intersect to produce new forms of historical knowledge and collective memory. Registration required.