Open Call: Brandenburg choirs, join us!
This summer - on July 4 and 5 2026 - the State Choir Competition will take place at E-WERK Luckenwalde and the former Bauhaus Stadtbad Luckenwalde. Choirs from across Brandenburg are invited to perform, connect, and be part of the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest. Three participation options are available: an open concert as part of the Sommerfest, the official competition with qualification for the 2027 German Choir Competition, or a jury evaluation without forwarding. All choirs will be celebrated as “Voices of Brandenburg” and can enjoy a vibrant festival of choral music at unique historical venues. More info and registration via the link below. Join us and let your voices be heard!
The application period for the call for proposals has already closed.
Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest
On 4 July 2026, the former Bauhaus Stadtbad and E-WERK Luckenwalde will be transformed into a vibrant venue for Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest. This open-air cultural and community festival invites all residents and visitors to experience community spirit and cultural diversity first-hand. In close cooperation with the Brandenburg State Music Council and the State Choir Competition, which is also taking place on this day, the town will become the centre of the regional choir scene: over 20 choirs from across Brandenburg are expected to attend and shape the festival's musical programme.
A top-class programme of contemporary music and performance from E-WERK Luckenwalde will complement the festival, featuring FRANKIE (Franziska Aigner) and Enad Marouf, who will perform at the former Bauhaus Stadtbad for the last time before its comprehensive renovation ahead of reopening in 2028. At the same time, a lively street festival featuring local initiatives, culinary delights, and a variety of hands-on activities will invite visitors to celebrate democratic engagement and neighbourly togetherness. To allow visitors to experience the city's diversity fully, a shuttle service will connect the festival with the 120th anniversary celebrations of FSV 63 Luckenwalde, thus bridging the gap between culture and sport.
Social Mapping by Oscar Murillo
Starting from 14:00
On the occasion of Oscar Murillo’s exhibition at DAS MINSK in Potsdam, people are invited to take part in drawing sessions held around the country as part of a collaborative artwork.
These sessions will form part of an ongoing project titled, Social mapping, a celebration of collective spirit anchored by the exercise of drawing and mark-making.
You and your local community will be free to draw and doodle on blank canvases with pens, pencils, crayons, and biros. At the end of the session the canvases will be collected and sent to Potsdam where they will join material gathered from around the world. Visitors to the museum will be invited to paint on top of these marked canvases in a gathering of voices from around the country.
This event is free to attend and participants of all ages are welcome. All canvas and drawing materials will be provided.
Oscar Murillo: Collective Osmosis
DAS MINSK, Potsdam
14th March - 9th August, 2026
From 14.03.2026 renowned contemporary artist Oscar Murillo will take over the spaces at DAS MINSK Kunsthaus in Potsdam with his project Collective Osmosis, a celebration of mark-making creating moments of exchange between his paintings, installation works, and the work of Claude Monet. For Murillo, the scientific metaphor of osmosis, the process by which water particles move through a semi-permeable boundary with the aim of reaching a state of equilibrium, can be seen as a model for opening the museum, building bridges between the indoor and outdoor space, between the museum and the city, as well as between Potsdam and the world. The exhibition also marks the first collaboration between DAS MINSK and Museum Barberini, with works by Oscar Murillo on display at both institutions.
Franziska Aigner
Franziska Aigner, aka FRANKIE, is an Austrian artist working at the intersection of music, philosophy, and performance. She studied at P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts Research and Training Studios) in Brussels and has presented her own works internationally in theatres and at festivals. FRANKIE has worked closely as a performer and composer with artist Anne Imhof, including on FAUST (2017), the work that was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Her music was released on vinyl by the label PAN in 2019. In 2020, she completed a PhD at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) in London, with a dissertation on Kant and technology. She currently teaches philosophy at The New Centre for Research and Practice. As a resident of the Mensch Maschine Residency at E-WERK Luckenwalde and the Junge Akademie der Künste Berlin, she explored the structures of film composition and choreography, developing an experimental film that weaves personal, multi-layered memories with historical narratives. This research forms the basis of her presentation within the framework of Stadtbad Live! 2026.
Enad Marouf
Enad Marouf is a Syrian / German artist based in Berlin. His works include choreography, video, text and installation. He finished his MA in choreography and performance in the institute for theatre applied science Giessen/ Frankfurt in 2014. In his work, Marouf explores the fragmentary nature of memory, loss, and desire - their temporality and the ways in which they are embodied through poetry, video, installation and Dance. His solo works and collaborations have been presented in Liste Art fair Basel, Sophiensaele Berlin, Centre Francais Damas,Survival Kit Riga, Shedhalle Zurich, Art Geneve and Neue National Galerie Berlin a.o. In 2023 he was awarded the Will Grohmann prize at the Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Performance by FRANKIE & Enad Manouf
22:00
This performance as part of the Stadtbad Live! Sommerfest marks the first full-length audiovisual collaboration by FRANKIE (aka Franziska Aigner) and Enad Marouf, two Berlin-based artists who have worked closely together since 2011. Their collaboration began within the performance collective New Forms of Life, continued through several major performances by Anne Imhof, and has more recently taken shape in a series of short video works. This shared history informs a deep, intuitive working relationship that now comes to the foreground in a new, explicitly joint project.
Rather than presenting a conventional A/V show, the performance unfolds as a live, shared experiment. FRANKIE and Enad appear on stage as equals, working side by side at a single table that functions simultaneously as studio, instrument, and film set. The video is created entirely live: Enad films, reframes, and composes images in real time, drawing on photographs and visual material from both artists’ personal archives, alongside screens displaying pre-recorded elements that can be re-appropriated in the moment. At other points, the stage itself becomes a site of live filmmaking, as both artists collaboratively construct a cinematic space that exists only once, in real time. The work weaves together music and image as parallel forms of thinking.
