Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest
E-WERK showcased works by practitioners based in Brandenburg through an ambitious ‘back 2 back’ programme around Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde. A selection of back 2 back proposals showcased the volume and diversity of culture happening in Brandenburg, which may include performances, sport, panel discussions, symphonies, concerts and dance. The ambition is to celebrate the renovation of the Stadtbad as a new publicly accessible venue, and illustrate how new forms of heritage interpretation can empower citizens in the context of the green transition. The day also included SWEAT. A Musclical: A music project about fitness, optimization markets and the self by artist Rimini Protokoll.
12 July 2025
Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death
Arthur Jafa
Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death (2016) consists of footage shot by Jafa, a visual artist with a long career as a cinematographer and film director, as well as clips sampled from films, newscasts, sporting events, music videos, and citizen videos, much of it downloaded from the Internet. These images traverse the twentieth century, focusing on the lives of Black people set against the backdrop of systemic racism and white supremacism. This work is a powerful meditation on racism and Black pain, creativity and Black resilience and was shown for the first time in Brandenburg.
31 May - 12 July 2025
Summer School: Energy Literacy for Just Transition
E-WERK hosted a summer school for an interdisciplinary selection of masters and PhD students at E-WERK in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam to explore the questions: How can we understand the different ways energy manifests in landscapes, social relations, infrastructures and heritage spaces? What happens to energy production sites after they are decommissioned? Please note the application process has now closed.
5 - 9 July 2025
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish,
part 6: Love and Lament
Symposium festival co-curated by Filipa Ramos and Lucia Pietroiusti in collaboration with Schering Stiftung
The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish convenes a wide range of perspectives, from visual art to literature, spirituality, biology and technology, to consider how consciousness, intelligence, language, affects and forms of togetherness are manifested and expressed across the Earth’s life forms. Love and Lament considers how love and care for a world in change are being affected by a sense of loss and transformation and how the traditional cycles of collapse and renewal are being challenged and interrupted. Participants include Aslak Aamot Helm, Antoine Bertin, Kapwani Kiwanga, Michael Ohl, Alejandra Pombo Su, Elizabeth Povinelli, Claudia Rankine, Asad Raza, Giles Round, Jenna Sutela, Jovana Maksic, Staci Bu Shea and Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen with DJ sets by Tuur Van Balen and María Inés Plaza Lazo.
31 May 2025
New sustainable models for artist-led spaces
Knowledge sharing project with assembly House, Leeds (UK) on sustainable models for artist-led spaces. E-WERK and Assembly House are hosting residencies at their respective sites to demonstrate their ways of working as artist-led organisations with different approaches to share and learn the context of their work, and the ways that heritage buildings can be used to advantage, holding histories within them whilst creating space for future legacies.
the sustainable institution is a long-term international programme divided into three phases: a symposia series, artist residency and digital toolkit in partnership with LUMA Arles, Rupert Centre for art, residencies and education and Gallery Climate Coalition. The project is a call to action to innovate new sustainable approaches and stimulate human, economic and ecological change to the cultural landscape.
Sites of… Practice is a yearly programme that supports the emergence of a new field of practice in the face of the polycrisis.
Mieke Miami is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, composer, and producer from Luckenwalde, Brandenburg. In September 2024, she released her third album, 'Birdland', composed in her studio at E-WERK Luckenwalde. Her concert took place at Stadtbad next to E-WERK Luckenwalde.
11 October 2024
Exhibition with alumni and students of the Berlin University of the Arts and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
In collaboration with Bauhaus Earth
26 July - 04 August 2024
With Lamis Ammar, Sascia Bailer, Mirthe Berentsen, Candice Breitz, Eglė Budvytytė, JJJJJerome Ellis, Hettie Judah, Prem Krishnamurthy, Zoe Claire Miller, Eve Stainton & Florence Peake, Nástio Mosquito, Asad Raza, Lauryn Youden, Abbas Zahedi, SERAFINE1369, Pussy Riot, Fatoş Üstek and Melanie Jame Wolf.
E-WERK Luckenwalde and Stadtbad Live
3-4 May 2024
October 2022 - November 2024
Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent in collaboration with Performance Electrics
17 September 2022 – 11 February 2023
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Cooking Sections, Karrabing Film Collective, Isabel Lewis & Sissel Tolaas, Tabita Rezaire and Himali Singh Soin
22 October 2021 – 31 July 2022
