Luckenwalde 14943
Germany
E-WERK Luckenwalde shares its fifth annual programme for 2025 at the former brown coal power station turned regenerative power plant and contemporary art centre in Brandenburg, Germany. The neighbouring Bauhaus Stadtbad, will also be animated with a series of live projects and interventions, and in 2025 begin its transformation into new cultural venue, Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde.
May 4–5
E-WERK Open Studios
As part of Brandenburg Open Studios, visitors can explore the studios of E-WERK's 2025 Mensch Maschine artists in residence, a project in collaboration with JUNGE AKADEMIE Akademie der Künste and E.ON Foundation, alongside E-WERK's long-term studio residents.
May 31–July 12
Arthur Jafa: Love Is the Message, The Message Is Death
Jafa's film traverses the twentieth century, focusing on the lives of BIPOC people set against the backdrop of systemic racism and white supremacism. This work is a powerful meditation on racism and BIPOC pain, creativity and resilience and will be shown for the first time in Brandenburg at E-WERK this spring.
May 31
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
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. Participants to date include Antoine Bertin, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen, Aslak Aamot Helm, Michael Ohl, Alejandra Pombo Su, Elizabeth Povinelli, Claudia Rankine, Giles Round, Staci Bu Shea, Jenna Sutela and more. 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. Book now.
July 5–9
Summer School: Energy Literacy for Just Transition
E-WERK will host a summer school for an interdisciplinary selection of masters and PhD students in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam, with contributions from Bauhaus Earth and others 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? Organised by Petroculture’s Intersections with The Cultural Heritage Sector in the Context of Green Transitions (PITCH) and Kulturland Brandenburg. Please note the application process has now closed.
July 12
E-WERK Sommerfest
E-WERK will showcase works by practitioners based in Brandenburg through an ambitious back to back programme in Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde. A selection of proposals, selected from the open call Stadtbad Staffelauf will showcase the volume and diversity of culture happening in Brandenburg. The day will also include the premiere of SWEAT. A music project about fitness, optimization markets and the self by artist Rimini Protokoll. Please find more info here about the open call which will be announced in April.
September 20
Mensch Maschine
E-WERK Luckenwalde, JUNGE AKADEMIE of 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 Franziska Aigner & Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi, Maithu Bùi, Emerson Culurgioni & Viktor Brim, Assem Hendawi, Rae Hsu, hn. lyonga & Safiya Yon, Sonya Isupova and Kira Xonorika. Partners will also present a new music festival Mensch Maschine Musik on September 20 at Stadtbad Live Luckenwalde and a symposium at Akademie der Künste on 15 November.
Open: Saturday–Sunday 12–6pm (during exhibition days, opening times may vary during events, see website for details)
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E-WERK is co-directed by artist Pablo Wendel and Curator Helen Turner.
