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Stadttheater Luckenwalde. Bild: Peter Migulla

Smoke and Fire and Electricity
Film and Music Marathon
Featuring David Lynch, Olga Hohmann with Yannik Wittmann and more
Stadttheater Luckenwalde
16 October 15:00 – 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. Now available to book online.

Image credit: Rachel Rose, still from Everything and More, 2015. Courtesy of the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York, Brussels, and Seoul, and Pilar Corrias Gallery, London. / Design: Lorenz Klingebiel & Jan Münz

Electric Sublime
12 September 2026
– 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. The film exhibition explores moments when energy overwhelms perception, dissolving the boundaries between body, technology and cosmos to evoke sentiments of the unknown.

Electric Sublime is the first of three rotating film chapters accompanying Asad Raza's exhibition Electricity. The exhibition is only accessible with a tour. Tickets can be booked online.

Image from Asad Raza, Array series, from Pina Magazine #1. Design: Lorenz Klingebiel & Jan Münz

Asad Raza: Electricity
12 September 2026
– 25 April 2027

On 12 September 2026, E-WERK Luckenwalde will open its next Turbine Hall Commission, by artist Asad Raza, and the accompanying wider exhibition "Electricity" by Raza across EWERK’s 10.000m2 site.

The project marks a collaboration between E-WERK, a not-for-profit regenerative power station and contemporary art centre, and Raza, known for his participatory and multisensory approach. Raza’s exhibition will span E–WERK’s historic Engine Room, Turbine Hall and additional exhibition rooms, as well as the outdoor spaces of the power station. Tickets can be booked online.

Public Tour at E-WERK with Niels Boogers, 2025. Photo: Laila Kaletta

Public Tours at E-WERK Luckenwalde
Every last Thursday of the month:
14:15 German, 15:00 English

Discover E-WERK Luckenwalde – a unique, self-powered contemporary art center where art and renewable energy intersect. Our public tours offer insight into the site’s history as a former coal-fired power station, its transformation into an art space and our concept of Kunststrom (art power). The first tours will take place on 24 September 2026. Now available to book online.

Image credit: Harun Farocki, still from Gegen-Musik (Counter-Music), 2004. Courtesy of Harun Farocki GbR / Design: Lorenz Klingebiel & Jan Münz

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.

Electric Power is the second of three rotating film chapters accompanying Asad Raza's exhibition Electricity. The exhibition is only accessible with a tour. Tickets can be booked online.

Image credit: Doug Aitken, still from electric earth, 1999. Courtesy the artist; 303 Gallery, New York; Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Victoria Miro, London; Regen Projects, Los Angeles. Copyright Doug Aitken./ Design: Lorenz Klingebiel & Jan Münz

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.

Electric Earth is the last of three rotating film chapters accompanying Asad Raza's exhibition Electricity. The exhibition is only accessible with a tour. Tickets can be booked online.

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