Participation in all events is free of charge.

Registration is required for the performances by Murat Adash and Shade Théret as well as for the walk by Jasmine Parsley. Please find more information below.

Thursday, September 11, 2025

6 p.m.

Opening

6:30–7 p.m.

Troubadour 3

Performance by Leyla Yenirce
Location: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

“How do you entertain an audience these days? By letting it become part of something hidden,” says Leyla Yenirce. With Troubadour 3, the artist and musician invites visitors to a site-specific sound performance, improvising with acoustic and electronic instruments. The third part of this performance series focuses on Yenirce’s studio, located in the immediate vicinity of the Uferhallen. Alluding to the medieval troubadour – poet, composer, and singer in one – Yenirce interweaves language, sound, and the human body. In dialogue with the Uferhallen’s surroundings, she stages a space that exists largely out of view. In doing so, Troubadour 3 shifts the boundaries between stage and backstage, private and public, production and presentation.

8–12 p.m.

Concert by La Chatte + DJ-Set

Location: Studio dB, Uferstr. 8-11

La Chatte has been a key figure of the Parisian art-punk and wave scene for 20 years. The band was born in 2003 from the encounter in Paris of punk designer and artist Vava Dudu with synth musician and artist Stéphane Argillet Stereovoid, soon joined by guitarist Nicolas Jorio. Characterized by the spectacular voice and whimsical outfits of lead singer Vava Dudu, the sharp synths of Stereovoid’s (also a member of the synth wave duo PeiNe PerDue) and Jorio’s hypnotic guitar riffs, the trio fervently performs animal synth punk shows, somewhere between expressionist cabaret and hallucinated new wave. The trio will release its 5th studio album in 2025.

Friday, September 12, 2025

8–9 p.m.

Correspondance (Darkness)

Performance by Murat Adash
Location: Bibliothek am Luisenbad, Badstr. 39 (Doors open at 8 p.m., performance starts at 8.30 p.m., no admission after the performance has begun)

In the performance Correspondance (Darkness), Murat Adash invites the audience to immerse themselves in a concentrated experiential space of darkness, voice, and movement. Here, the phenomenon of camouflage emerges as a choreographic strategy for renegotiating the threshold between body and space. The work is part of the multi-part series Correspondance – a play on the word’s layered meanings in the sense of resonance, relationality, and dance – and underscores movement as a process shaped by surroundings, objects, and other bodies. In dialogue with more-than-human perspectives and indigenous cosmologies, the performance in the historic dance hall of the Bibliothek am Luisenbad encourages a heightened awareness of what might be revealed in the dark.

Murat Adash is a fellow of the Berlin Artistic Research Programme 2024/2025. The event is a cooperation between Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) and the Berlin Artistic Research Programme.

Registration required here

Trigger warning: Parts of the performance take place in complete darkness.

Saturday, September 13, 2025

2–6 p.m.

Open Studios & Friends

Location: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Accompanying the exhibition A Hidden Well, the Uferhallen artists will open their studios. Visitors will have the opportunity to gain insight into the creative processes behind the works and everyday life in the artists' studios. Behind the doors of the studios, workshops, and presentation rooms, visitors can discover completed artworks as well as sketches, models, and designs.

2 and 4 p.m.

Vom Mehrwert eines Kulturstandorts im Stadtkontext

Guided tour on Open Monument Day

Meeting Point: Café Pförtner, Uferstr. 8-11

From 1873 to 2005, the Uferhallen were an important location in Berlin's transport history, where the development from horse-drawn trams to electric trams and motorization can be traced. After the state-owned BVG site was sold to private owners, it developed into a center of Berlin's art and culture scene with studios, workshops, event spaces, and restaurants. The Uferhallen e.V. aims to permanently secure the location in its current form.

In German Language

3 p.m.

Guided tour through the Open Studios

Meeting Point: Uferhallen, vor der Alten Kantine, Uferstr. 8-11

In German Language

Sunday, September 14, 2025

2–6 p.m.

Open Studios & Friends

Location: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Accompanying the exhibition A Hidden Well, the Uferhallen artists will open their studios. Visitors will have the opportunity to gain insight into the creative processes behind the works and everyday life in the artists' studios. Behind the doors of the studios, workshops, and presentation rooms, visitors can discover completed artworks as well as sketches, models, and designs.

2 and 4 p.m.

Vom Mehrwert eines Kulturstandorts im Stadtkontext

Guided tour on Open Monument Day

Meeting Point: Café Pförtner, Uferstr. 8-11

From 1873 to 2005, the Uferhallen were an important location in Berlin's transport history, where the development from horse-drawn trams to electric trams and motorisation can be traced. After the state-owned BVG site was sold to private owners, it developed into a center of Berlin's art and culture scene with studios, workshops, event spaces, and restaurants. The Uferhallen e.V. aims to permanently secure the location in its current form.

In German Language

3 p.m.

Guided tour through the Open Studios

Meeting Point: Uferhallen, vor der Alten Kantine, Uferstr. 8-11

In German Language

Thursday, September 18, and Friday, September 19, 2025

8–9 p.m.

Étoile Allergique

Performance by Shade Théret

Location: Heizhaus, Uferstudios, Uferstr. 23

Shade Théret’s performance Étoile Allergique addresses the experience of illness and its accompanying processes unfolding within the body as part of an invisible geography. In a duet with dancer Alice Heyward, the two performers search for forms and modes of expression that probe the thresholds between health, illness, and possible healing, while confronting intangible aspects such as wounds, pain, and vulnerability. The performance is guided by an understanding of the body as a ruin – a structure at first living, then decaying, in which memories and traumas are stored and recalled. Processuality, collapse, and permanence become perceptible as shared qualities of body and architecture.

Concept and choreography: Shade Théret
Performed with Alice Heyward
Set: in collaboration with Amadeus Vogelsang
Costume: Good & Bad
Music: I See You

An event organized by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in cooperation with Uferstudios.

Registration required here

Saturday, September 20, 2025

7–10 p.m.

Bar talk with Aykan Safoğlu, Gülşah Stapel and Music by Emrah Gökmen
Location: Studio 8 Bar, Grüntaler Str. 8, 13357 Berlin

As part of his artistic contribution to the exhibition A Hidden Well, artist Aykan Safoğlu will host a bar talk at Studio 8 Bar with curator and author Gülşah Stapel and a musical performance by Emrah Gökmen. The evening will open a shared reflection on cultural heritage, urban memory practices, and artistic strategies in public space.

In German language

Sunday, September 21, 2025

10 a.m.–6 p.m.

Neighborhood Fleamarket

Location: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

Friday, September 26, 2025

10 a.m.–1 p.m.

Wege in eine nachhaltige Kulturförderung

Networking brunch for artists and cultural workers and panel discussion

Location: Uferhallen, Alte Kantine, Uferstr. 8-11

Sunday, September 28, 2025

4–6 p.m.

Aftertaste

A collective walk and tasting with Jasmine Parsley

Meeting Point: Uferhallen, Uferstr. 8-11

A collective walk around the Uferhallen in Gesundbrunnen, guided by taste. Participants are invited to trace the disappearance of the legendary Heilquelle through the industrialization of Wedding, reflect on how these transformations shaped local plant life, and consider what today’s vegetation reveals about contemporary relationships with public space. On the walk, stories that plants carry with them will be shared, edible species will be identified, gathered, and prepared collectively. Once the food is ready, the table will be opened to the public for a shared tasting.

Jasmine Parsley is an artist based in Berlin whose practice examines the implicit ideologies and hierarchies inscribed in public spaces, particularly through vegetation. They hold a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of the Arts, Berlin. Parsley approaches architecture as a performative practice with transformative potential—where bodies gather, communicate, and linger, opening new ways of encountering everyday spaces and overlooked plant species.

In German language

Registration required at uferhallen@nbk.org