Events

Two performances that blend encounter, memory, and absurdism: Susanne Graus’s Xenia // is it urgent? invites the audience to a collective reading in which language, movement, and imagination merge. Alexander Norton’s The Breakdown reimagines a defining soccer match as a one-person show that is as humorous as it is absurd—and connects sports, identity, and personal history in surprising ways.

Alexander Norton (Annita Sleep) presents The Breakdown, an absurd yet deeply personal football show exploring identity, memory, and popular culture. In Cognitive Dissonance, Ben Glas invites the audience to take part in a participatory sound performance where language shifts through repetition and new meanings emerge collectively.

During the 48 Stunden Neukölln art festival, the Kunstbrücke at Wildenbruch will have extended hours. Throughout this period, visitors can view the exhibition Berlin, the Bitch and the Witch, which reinterprets the figure of the witch as a symbol of resistance, care, and self-empowerment.

The performance Cognitive Dissonance by Ben Glas invite the audience to explore the boundaries between language, perception, and trust. Glas creates an evolving soundscape through the collective repetition of words.

The performances by Susanne Grau and Selma Lindgren explore questions of encounter, trust, and human relationships. While Xenia // is it urgent? takes the form of a collective reading, dance performance, and participatory theatre piece that blurs the boundaries between observing and acting, Smoke in Mirrors examines the mechanisms of trust through the format of a magic show. Both works invite audiences to reflect on their own role in relation to others and to reconsider how connection is formed in times of uncertainty.

The group exhibition explores how capitalism shapes urban life and often suppresses invisible processes such as care, resistance, and collective solidarity. Twelve artists and performers use magic as a method to challenge these structures and bring alternative forms of coexistence and survival to light. The exhibition combines installation, painting, sound, and video into a dynamic structure that is continuously expanded through performances, inviting visitors to re-experience power, community, and urban spaces.