June 26–July 27, 2025
Marienplatz
Marienplatz
Focus weekends
June 26–29: Festival opening with performances, walks, games, sceenings and workshops by Eloïse Bonneviot & Anne de Boer, Camila Cañeque, Alice Chauchat, Dreaming in Women*, Göksu Kunak, Mila Panić, Jasmin Schädler, Selma Selman, Raul Walch and others.
July 3–6: Symposium Reclaim Air with Caroline Ektander, Elke Krasny, Lia Mazzari, Love Ssega, Christine von Raven and others. Performances and installations featuring Natalia Domínguez, Sofia Dona, Kenza Lansari, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Office of Administrative Joint Intelligence, Carmen Westermeier & Julia Hainz and more.
July 25–27: Closing weekend with sound interventions in Stuttgart’s historic water reservoir, featuring Donya Ahmadifar & Bobby Sayyar and Citizen.KANE.Kollektiv. Performances and screenings by Anahita Razmi and others.
In its third edition, the Festival CURRENT—Art and Urban Space examines air and its social, political, ecological and material dimensions. From Stuttgart’s Pragsattel to the Central Station, across Charlottenplatz, Österreichischer Platz via Marienplatz to Uhlandshöhe and the former climatic spa at Degerloch, CURRENT follows streams in the city—exerting air as a narrative, aesthetic, political and artistic element.
The program is structured along three dimensions: Reclaim Air addresses air as a common good, beyond territorial borders. Materializing Air considers air as a material—asking how the invisible is made visible, audible or tangible. Driving, Dreaming, Drifting examines the influence of cars on air quality, urban design and spatial uses. Air becomes visible as a political actor with the agency to reshape urban spaces.
CURRENT is structured in three parts: An exhibition in urban public space, an interdisciplinary symposium from July 3–4, accompanied by a magazine examining artistic, theoretical and activist position. As they unfold across Stuttgart, the artworks are specific and sensitive to their sites. Air becomes narrative thread and material witness.
Participating artists, scientists and activists
Johanna Ackva & Cécile Kobel & Judith Milz, Donya Ahmadifar & Bobby Sayyar & Jens Kuhlmann & Nam Nguyen The, Haseeb Ahmed, Eloïse Bonneviot & Anne de Boer, Alice Chauchat, Citizen.KANE.Kollektiv & Maite Román, Natalia Domínguez, Sofia Dona, Dreaming in Women* (Toni Böckle & Sofia Falsone & Paula Kohlmann & Sarah Tartsch), Caroline Ektander, Julia Hainz & Carmen Westermeier, Eva-Maria Houben, Göksu Kunak, Elke Krasny, Paco Ladrón de Guevara, Kenza Lansari, Lia Mazzari, Mila Panić, Norbert Prothmann, Office for Joint Administrative Intelligence, Anahita Razmi, Christine von Raven, Jasmin Schädler, Manuela Schininà, Selma Selman, Love Ssega, Alkistis Thomidou, Veronica Valentini, Raul Walch.
Curated by Laura Bernhardt, Marenka Krasomil and Nora Unger, CURRENT 2025 fosters international exchange and local collaboration—including partnerships with the Stuttgart Independent Dance and Theatre Scene Stuttgart (FTTS), Brussels-based multidisciplinary art center Recyclart, and Sant Andreu Contemporani in Barcelona.
Locations
Charlottenplatz, Delphi Arthaus Kino, Hauptbahnhof, Hochbunker am Pragsattel, Kunstbüro Kunststiftung BW, Lapidarium, Luftbad Degerloch, Mailänder Platz, Marienplatz, Öschi, St. Maria als…, Versöhnungskirche, Wasserspeicher, Werkstatthaus, Wilhelmsplatz, Württembergischer Kunstverein, and many more.
Team
Laura Bernhardt (Artistic & Managing Director), Marenka Krasomil (Curator; Artistic Director Project “Driving, Dreaming, Drifting"), Nora Unger (Curator; Head of Program Discourse), Natalia Sartori (Project Management, Head of Production), Anja Haas (Production), Marcela Majchrzak (Program Coordination), Verena Schulze (Program & Communications Coordination), Laurine Haller (Web Coordination), Paul Steinmann (Design), Kathrin Stärk (Press), Tina Steiger (English Translation & Editing), Stella Covi (Intern), Julien Jousse (Intern), Johannes Polzer (Intern).
For press inquiries, please contact Kathrin Stärk at: press@artpublicspace.de
More information and the full program at current-stuttgart.de
