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Stadtbad Live!
Open Call in April
In April, E-WERK will launch Stadtbad Live! - an open call only for the citizens of Brandenburg to propose their own cultural intervention at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde. The Stadtbad will now be refurbished and reactivated as Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde: a cultural, event and production venue. Stadtbad Live! proposals could manifest as music, dance, sports, panel discussions, comedy, poetry, symphonies and more. A selection of applications from the open call will be selected by a prestigious cultural jury and premiere on 12 July in an ambitious back to back programme, as part of E-WERK’s Sommerfest at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde.
E-WERK Open Studios
3 - 4 May
E-WERK is delighted to take part in Brandenburg Open Studios on 3 - 4 May, where audiences will be able to visit the studios of E-WERK’s 2025 Mensch Maschine artists in residence, and E-WERK’s long term studio artists.
Mensch Maschine 2025
Artist in Residency Programme
The Human Machine Programme is an artist in residency programme between the JUNGE AKADEMIE, VISIT of E.ON Stiftung and E- WERK Luckenwalde. The partnership promotes networking among artists and aims to explore issues of sustainability in the field of digital technologies. Each fellowship is endowed with 20,000 euros. The four artists will be provided with studios at E-WERK Luckenwalde as well as at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death
Arthur Jafa
31 May - 12 July
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 will be shown for the first time in Brandenburg.
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
31 May
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, Michael Ohl, Alejandra Pombo Su, Elizabeth Povinelli, Claudia Rankine, 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. Book now.
Summer School: Energy Literacy for Just Transition
5 - 9 July
E-WERK will host 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.
E-WERK Sommerfest
12 July
Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde
E-WERK will showcase works by practitioners based in Brandenburg through an ambitious ‘back 2 back’ programme around Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde. A selection of back 2 back proposals will showcase 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 will also include SWEAT. A Musical: A music project about fitness, optimization markets and the self by artist Rimini Protokoll.
Mensch Maschine
Opening 20 September with live performance and Mensch Maschine Musik programme
E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE Akademie der Künste, Berlin and E.ON Foundation are pleased to announce the group exhibition of Mensch Maschine fellows 2024 - 2025 at E-WERK featuring Assem Hendawi, hn. lyonga & Safiya Yon, Emerson Culurgioni & Viktor Brim, Kira Xonorika, Sonya Isupova, Maithu Bùi, Franziska Aigner & Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi and Rae Hsu. Partners will also present Mensch Maschine Musik on 20 September at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde featuring Bendik Giske, Discovery Zone and Nazanin Noori. Curated by E-WERK Luckenwalde and Akademie der Künste, Berlin.
