Saturday, September 14, 2024

2–6 pm

Open Studios

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Accompanying the exhibition on the grounds of the Uferstudios, the Uferhallen artists will open their studios. The Uferhallen in Berlin-Wedding provides working and community space for numerous contemporary artists. During the Open Studios, these artists invite you to explore and experience this space together. Behind the doors of the studios, workshops, and presentation rooms, visitors can discover completed artworks as well as sketches, models, and designs. The Open Studios offer a rare opportunity to speak directly with the artists and learn first-hand about how they work, what inspires them, and how their artworks come into being.

5 pm

Jasmin Schiele, Ufer(h)allen: Architektur als sozial-kulturelle Infrastruktur, Lecture

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

In her work, Jasmin Schiele asks what the Uferhallen complex could look like if social and ecological issues were put before profit and the site became a social and cultural open space, creating added value for the neighborhood without the pressure of consumerism. Existing synergies could be strengthened and an open space for heterogeneous use could be created. Her work focuses on the careful activation, reprogramming, addition and rethinking of possibilities in existing buildings. To this end, she observed and analyzed the neighborhood, researched in archives and dealt intensively with references of socio-cultural infrastructures. From this, she developed a manifesto with guiding principles for design, a vocabulary of interventions in the existing context and a clearly defined and flexible timber skeleton volume as an addition to the site for the neighborhood.

6 pm

Lucinda Dayhew, Stop the Ride I’m Getting Off, Performance

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Lucinda Dayhew investigates relationships between social, environmental, and psychological phenomena with a rhythmic bent, sculpting words and moulding materials and sounds to form rhythmic objects. Her narratives become pulses that shift shape as they grapple with the conflicting ethics of daily life. Besides performing live sound performance works related to industry and labour, Dayhew will premiere Stop the Ride, I’m Getting Off, a piece created with the history of Boulevard Badstraße in mind.

7 pm

Film Screening

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

INDUSTRY presents Ljubav (1972) by Vlatko Gilić. A railway bridge is being built close to a little river. A worker’s wife comes to visit him.

8 pm

Experimental Music Performances Night: Avi Caspi, Nearat Hametifim, Elektrischer Hund

Venue: studio db, Uferstr. 8-11

Avi Caspi is a DJ, conductor and producer based in Berlin. His sphere of activity spans the broad spectrum between the polarities of classical music and electronic music. Organ sounds and symphonic transitions feature in his sets. Nearat Hametifim is a project by musician Shelly Liederman, offering a mesmerizing journey into the depths of creativity and imagination. The project draws inspiration from Hebrew letters, mystical ancient texts, and poetry. By harnessing the sonic potential of words, storytelling, and the liminal space between wakefulness and dreams, it creates a unique auditory experience. Elektrischer Hund is a collective consisting of Nicolai Schizoph and Kirill Stepanov (Rites of Passage). Their music blends jazz and ambient sounds, and together, they curate the somnambulist radio show, Morpheus Radio.

Sunday, September 15, 2024

10 am – 6 pm

Neighborhood Fleamarket

Ort: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8–11

Uferhallen swing their gates wide open again and invite you to the neighborhood fleamarket! Food and drinks as well as a limited number of tables will be available for a small fee.

2–6 pm

Open Studios

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Accompanying the exhibition on the grounds of the Uferstudios, the Uferhallen artists will open their studios. The Uferhallen in Berlin-Wedding provides working and community space for numerous contemporary artists. During the Open Studios, these artists invite you to explore and experience this space together. Behind the doors of the studios, workshops, and presentation rooms, visitors can discover completed artworks as well as sketches, models, and designs. The Open Studios offer a rare opportunity to speak directly with the artists and learn first-hand about how they work, what inspires them, and how their artworks come into being.

5 pm

Nathaniel Flakin / Revolutionary Berlin, Red Wedding, Neighborhood Walking Tour

Venue: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Wedding was once Berlin‘s most left-wing district. In the German elections of November 6, 1932, 47.1% of Weddingers voted for the communists. Wedding had tenements and terrible poverty, but also reform schools, socialist art, and a proud proletarian culture. On May 1, 1929, Kösliner Straße — the reddest street in Berlin‘s reddest district — saw the worst police violence in the city‘s history. Our tour will walk along a stream (the Panke) and look at the origins of Red Wedding: how it grew from a spa town outside Berlin into an urban industrial neighborhood. We will see massive factories — some of which have been converted into art spaces. We will follow the footsteps of the communist doctor Georg Benjamin (the little brother of Walter) who worked to improve the lives of Wedding‘s working class. We will walk along the river and the tour will end two hours later near S-Bhf Humboldthain. The tour will be entirely outside.

In English

Sunday, September 22, 2024

3–6 pm

Karo Akpokiere, An Alternative History of Symbols and Their Meaning, Workshop

Meeting point: 3 pm at the rollercoaster by the artist Oscar Peters, later: Studio 2 (Uferstudios). Participants can join the workshop at any time (drop-in drop-out).

The workshop is based on the work Berlin-Wedding (2024) by artist Karo Akpokiere and is part of his long-term project An Alternative History of Symbols and Their Meaning. In this project, Akpokiere deals with the production, adoption, appropriation and decontextualization of coats of arms. He examines the role that coats of arms play in the formation of a group's identity in relation to a place. Akpokiere deals with the colors and symbols contained in the coats of arms of federal states, cities, municipalities and villages in Germany and raises, among other things, the question of how we can deal with the past and future of a place through the reinterpretation of historical symbolism. Participants are invited to design their own coat of arms to represent a place that is important to them.

The workshop is suitable for all age groups. The workshop room (Studio 2) is accessible without steps. Materials will be provided on site.

Participation is free of charge.

In German and English