Opening
Tour and music programme
12 September 2026, 16:00 - 22:00

Reserve a free time slot for the opening →

Exhibition opening times
Saturdays and Sundays, 13:00 - 18:00
Tours in German (13:15 & 15:15) and English (14:15 & 16:15)

Book your exhibition tickets →

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Long before electricity was generated, it was conducted. The Earth is continually traversed by currents that precede and exceed electrical systems. Solar radiation, atmospheric charge, flowing water, roots, nerves and power grids each transmit transformations from one body to another.

Conductivity is not confined to metals or machines; it describes a more general capacity to receive, transform and pass something onward. A conductor is never simply an object. It exists through what moves across it.

For his exhibition Electricity, Asad Raza responds directly to the context of E-WERK Luckenwalde as a reactivated power station by artist Pablo Wendel, and approaches electricity not as an invisible utility or technological achievement, but as something earthly, ontological and sublime.

Visitors move through the site in small groups led by a conductor, who guides attention through a sequence of encounters. Electrostatic machines, moving image, sound, vibration, saltwater, amber, charcoal, ash, timber, plants and live actions appear as temporary conductors, each receiving and transmitting forces according to its own material properties.

Conceived as a single dramaturgy rather than a collection of discrete installations, the exhibition also incorporates works by Tino Sehgal and Sung Tieu. Their contributions enter into its evolving network of transmissions, extending its exploration of how movement, attention and exchange circulate between bodies. At E-WERK Luckenwalde, where electricity continues to be generated throughout the exhibition, the power station becomes more than a site of production. It becomes a place in which the invisible passages that continually compose our reality become sensible.

PUBLIC PROGRAMME

An extensive programme of performances, screenings and conversations accompanies the exhibition throughout its duration.

Opening Programme
12 September 16:00 - 22:00

Featuring several conductor-led tours and a performance by multi-disciplinary artist Tati au Miel and DJ set by Rafay Rashid.

Reserve a free time slot for the opening →

Film Programme
The exhibition is accompanied by a rotating film programme unfolding in three successive chapters: Electric Sublime, Electric Earth and Electric Power, featuring works by Ana Mendieta, Doug Aitken, Raven Chacon, Harun Farocki, P. Staff, Cecilia Bengolea, Rachel Rose and Saodat Ismailova. Each edition brings together three film works, changing over the course of the exhibition and extending its inquiry into the many forms electricity and energy can take. Moving between the earthly and the technological, the phenomenal and the sinister, the intimate and the sublime, the programme considers energy as both a material, earthly force and an ontological experience.

Electric Sublime
12 September – 15 November 2026

Melted into the Sun, Saodat Ismailova, 2024
Lightning Dance, Cecilia Bengolea, 2018
Everything and More, Rachel Rose, 2015

Electric Sublime returns energy to the realms of magic, wonder, the mystical and the sublime. This chapter explores moments when energy overwhelms perception, dissolving the boundaries between body, technology and cosmos to evoke sentiments of the unknown. Cecilia Bengolea approaches electricity through movement, rhythm and the body, where earthly energy becomes a shared ecstatic force. Rachel Rose evokes altered states of consciousness, immersing the viewer in a world where human perception encounters vast cosmic energetic forces. Saodat Ismailova turns toward ancestral and spiritual dimensions, where electricity becomes intertwined with memory, landscape and unseen forces belonging to the earth. Together, the works approach energy as mysterious, transformative and sublime.

Electric Power
21 November 2026 – 14 February 2027

On Venus, P. Staff, 2019
Gegen-Musik, Harun Farocki, 2004

Electric Power considers how energy has manifested in systems of technology, infrastructure and biopolitics over the last century, creating systems of extraction, oppression and domination over the more-than-human energetic world. It considers technologies and infrastructures ranging from the domestic space to the automated city and industrial systems of production. Harun Farocki reveals the technological systems, dependent on electricity, that organise the circulation of people, goods and information. P. Staff traces energy through human and more-than-human bodies, questioning the violent yet quotidian systems of production that underpin contemporary life.

Electric Earth
20 February – 25 April 2027

Maneuvering the Apostles, Raven Chacon, 2024
Energy Charge, Ana Mendieta, 1975
Electric Earth, Doug Aitken, 1999

Long before electricity was generated, industrialised and commodified, energy belonged to amber, to the earth: flashing through storms, travelling beneath the skin, animating bodies and binding them to landscapes. The films in Electric Earth approach energy as a primordial force coursing through bodies, ecologies and matter. The work of Ana Mendieta understands the body as inseparable from the earth, pulsating with energy akin to planetary rivers and geological formations. Doug Aitken reveals energy as a restless condition within us that has been invisibilised by hypercapitalism, while Raven Chacon exposes the abuse of sacred vibrations of Indigenous lands in the pursuit of energetic progress.

Smoke and Fire and Electricity
Film and Music Marathon
Stadttheater Luckenwalde
16 October 12:00 - 00:00

On Friday 16 October 2026, E-WERK Luckenwalde will present Smoke and Fire and Electricity at the Stadttheater Luckenwalde, running parallel to exhibition Electricity by Asad Raza. The programme honours the legacy of David Lynch and his recurring, devoted explorations of electricity - as cinematic motif, as natural phenomenon, as language of the unconscious.

Selected films including Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992), Lost Highway (1997) and Inland Empire (2006) form the core of the evening, unfolding within the Stadttheater’s uncanny, unmistakably Lynchian architectural intensity. The programme is splintered with musical and performative interludes expanding the cinematic experience into live space.

Olga Hohmann with Yannik Wittmann expands the evening’s exploration of the electric and the uncanny through a live intervention where language, voice and presence become charged materials. Moving between intimacy and abstraction, her work opens another register of Lynch’s universe: the space where sound, memory and the subconscious begin to flicker into one another.

Sainkho Namtchylak brings her extraordinary vocal practice to the programme, transforming the voice into a visceral, otherworldly instrument. Known for her mastery of Tuvan throat singing, as well as her use of extended vocal techniques and improvisation, she engages with the physical qualities of sound to open the space between voice, body and electricity — creating a live, unpredictable counterpoint to Lynch’s cinematic dream worlds.

A Battery is an Artificial Fish
Electricity Symposium
24th April 2027

The programme culminates in a closing symposium on 24 April 2027, bringing together contributions from Abbas Zahedi, Claudia Rankine, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Raven Chacon and Simon Schaffer, among others. Further programme details will be announced in due course.

Factory tours
October 2026, February 2027, March 2027

In October, February, and March, visitors can sign up for guided tours of the contemporary art centre and Kunststrom power station. Each tour will be co-led by a local resident with deep knowledge of regional electricity history - Olaf Wendel (electrician and mayoral candidate), Bernd Schmiedl (Zeitzeuge and former production manager), and Katja Müller (Professor of Technology, Ethics and Society at Merseburg University of Applied Sciences)—alongside curators Helen Turner, Asad Raza, and Florine Lindner. These tours are a testbed for new, intergenerational engagement strategies to bridge rural and metropolitan perspectives.

VISITOR INFORMATION

Tickets
Electricity can be visited exclusively as a guided tour. Tours take place at fixed time slots and are led by a Conductor in German (13:15 & 15:15) and in English (14:15 & 16:15).

Because each tour has a very limited capacity, we strongly recommend booking in advance. A limited number of tickets may be available for purchase on site on the day of your visit, but entry cannot be guaranteed once a tour has reached capacity.

Cash and card payments are accepted on site.

Private Tours
Private tours can also be arranged on different dates and at different times, subject to availability. Private tours must be requested at least two weeks in advance and are available for EUR 300 (reduction available upon request). To request a private tour, please email info@kunststrom.com.

Safety
Electricity takes place within a former power station and includes works and situations involving a range of sensory and physical conditions.

Depending on the work, visitors may encounter electrical charges, strong low-frequency sound and vibration, subwoofers, darkness, moving elements, uneven surfaces and other intense sensory effects.

Please follow the instructions of the Conductors and E-WERK staff at all times. Certain works may not be suitable for visitors who are particularly sensitive to loud sound, vibration, darkness or electrical phenomena.

Further safety information will be provided on site before and during the tour.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

E-WERK Luckenwalde
Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 73
14943 Luckenwalde, Germany

Exhibition:
12 September 2026 – 25 April 2027

Opening days and times:
Saturdays & Sundays, 13:00 - 18:00

Access:
By guided tour only, with fixed time slots and limited capacity.

Languages:
German (13:15 & 15:15) and English (14:15 & 16:15)

Tickets:
Advance booking strongly recommended.

Book tickets →

COLOPHON

Electricity is curated by E-WERK’s Artistic Director Helen Turner, Producer Florine Lindner and Programme Coordinator Domenico Ermanno Roberti, in close collaboration with Asad Raza.

Scientific consulting: Alice Morey, Pablo Wendel, Rainer Möhricke, Simon Schaffer, Wolfgang Schiller
Exhibition design: Celeste Burlina, with Farid Taher and Jonas Maria Droste
Dramaturgy: Descha Daemgen
Conductors: André Mulzer, Carlos Kong, Dorothee Telson, Julia Cardoso Espindola, Sofiya Kurutan
Sound design: Rafay Rashid
Graphic design: Lorenz Klingebiel and Profi Aesthetics
Production: Laila Kaletta
Interns: Catarina Neves, Mia Thomas, Zoë Elizabeth Rehnborg
Technical services: Olivier Decker and Sebastian Kohl at Amplified Events, Rob Blake
Exhibition construction: Alice Morey, Anton Schmutzler, Felix Fogelstaller, Frédéric Ehlers, Jann Peterson, Lucy Mattern, Martina Wegener, Maxim Scheer, Mila Panic, Zu Kalinowska
Communication: Alexander Klaubert, Carolin Kralapp, Nicola Jeffs
Web: Niels Boogers
Media Partner: Berlin Art Link
Photography: Constanze Flamme, Laila Kaletta
Videography: Poppy Illsley, Sophie Lee

Special thanks to: Antje Ehmann at Harun Farocki GbR, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, Audrey Bùi and Breanne Bradley at Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Brian Doyle and 303 Gallery, New York, Cecilia Bengolea, Christian Schulze at Stadttheater Luckenwalde, Doug Aitken, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Genevieve Devitt Day at Pace Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, New York, Brussels and Seoul, Catherine Belloy and Junette Teng and Viva Ruggi at Marian Goodman Gallery, Manuel Miseur at Esther Schipper, Berlin, Dr. Marie Haff, Martin D. Fowler and Raven Chacon at The Studio of Raven Chacon, Nisrin El Karkani at Initiative Musik, Núria Marquès, Olga Hohmann and Yannick Wittmann, Olivia Kate Fairweather at Asad Raza Studio, Pablo Wendel at Performance Electrics gGmbH, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, Rafay Rashid, Rachel Rose and Lucie Elwes at Rachel Rose Studio, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Riley Lynch, Sabrina Sutherland, Saodat Ismailova, Silvio Saraceno and Sung Tieu at Studio Sung Tieu, Tati au Miel, The Estate of Ana Mendieta Collection, LLC Tino Sehgal, Tracy and P. Staff at P. Staff Studio, Victoria Miro, London.