Programme

Emigration to the Future

Programme

Interdisciplinary festival · Berlin-Wedding · 7–9 August 2026

Emigration to the Future is an interdisciplinary festival directed by Vsevolod Lisovsky, bringing together some forty artists from seven countries across three days in Berlin-Wedding. The festival’s main venue is ExBrache (Reinickendorfer Straße 41, 13347 Berlin); some projects take place at Chto Delat Emergency Project Room (Brunnenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin) and at Quarteera e.V. (Arkonapl. 5, 10435 Berlin) noted with each entry.

ExBrache all three days schedule:  

Friday 19-21:00

Saturday 15-21:00

Sanday 15-21:00

Installations and durational works run throughout the festival; performances, screenings, talks and concerts are spread across the three days below. A number of projects are confirmed but not yet fixed to a day — they are listed at the end.

Throughout the festival (7–9 August)

Smart Emigration to the Future  ·  Scientists

Popular science lectures. More information on a separate webpage.

LECTURES  ·   CHTO DELAT / QUARTEERA

Hansel and Gretel  ·  Daniil Zinchenko

A remake of the fairy tale, as a walk through Wedding. To follow along, download the video from the festival website before you set out.

WALK    ·   WEDDING   ·   (+ ONLINE)

Council of Mothers  ·  Efimova Catherine

A project about matriarchy: a window installation at Chto Delat, a presentation and interventions across the city.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY   ·   CHTO DELAT

Volumetric Berlin  ·  Roman Savchenko

A 3D model of the empty spaces of Berlin. Online work — view it on the festival website.

PRESENTATION   ·   ONLINE

Realists  ·  Shifra Kazhdan

A play in a private apartment, adapted for German- and English-speaking audiences.

PLAY   ·   LAHNSTRASSE 91, NEUKÖLLN

A Cure for Capitalism  ·  Vsevolod Lisovsky

What is this, if not a spontaneous cure for capitalism?

THERAPY · EXBRACHE

A Sacrifice for the Sake of the Future  ·  Vsevolod Lisovsky and others

The future won't arrive on its own. The future requires sacrifice — what are you willing to sacrifice?

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE

Monument to the Terminator  ·  Veronika Aktanova

A design for a monument to the Terminator, hero of the digital resistance. Inside the box, scattered parts — components of a construction set, tools, nuts and the like. Samodelkin puts himself together right there in the box: the Terminator of socialist descent, the one who can turn today's AI against the imperialists.

INSTALLATION · EXBRACHE

Collective Resonator  ·  Alexei Platonov

An interactive installation exploring the invisible connections between people. As visitors move through the space, their movements merge into a shared soundscape, making human relationships audible.

INSTALLATION · EXBRACHE

TREE YOURSELF  ·  Louis Lebée and Galya Solodovnikova

Two voices trace the slow work of growing together — listen to the audio from the festival website while walking through the ExBrache garden. Download the audio.

AUDIO PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE

Engelin der Geschichte  ·  Haim Sokol

A series of performances dedicated to his mother — one each day.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · ONE PER DAY

Fucking Time Machine  ·  David Ter-Oganyan

A DIY time machine.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE

7 & 8 August

Prophecy  ·  Bushkunsttheater

Part of the spatial performance "Through the Magic Mountain" by the Bushkunsttheater troupe. Download the accompanying video from the festival website.

THEATRE · LIDL, REINICKENDORFER STRASSE / WIESENSTRASSE 41 · ALL DAY   ·   (+ ONLINE)

Friday, 7 August

Forever chemicals  ·  Aglaia Tcidulko

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · QUARTEERA · 10:00

From Earth to Wine: Geoscience in Your Glass  ·  Nikolai Trofimov + Aglaia Tcidulko

Popular science lecture with wine tasting.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 14:00

Necro Kite Festival  ·  Maxim Evstropov

A necro-kite festival.

WORKSHOP & PERFORMANCE · LIDL, REINICKENDORFER STRASSE / WIESENSTRASSE 41 · OPENING, 18:00

The secret life of ions: From biomolecules to quantum computers  ·  Dr. Juliette Leroux

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 18:00

Arrival  ·  Andrey Shepel

Edited from archival material.

VIDEO · EXBRACHE · 20:30 (20 min)

Digital Emigration  ·  Marat Khuzin

A five-minute video — propaganda of AI.

VIDEO ART · EXBRACHE · 20:50 (5 min)

No Return  ·  Anton Ketov, Jana Safronova, Danila Safronov

Memories of the old world — a short play in public space.

PLAY · EXBRACHE · 21:00

Saturday, 8 August

Computational Electrosynthesis in the Landscape of Modern Chemistry: Understanding, Predicting, and Designing Reactions  ·  Dr. Liana Savintseva 

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · QUARTEERA · 10:30

Utopia Under Construction  ·  counterclockwise berlin

Participatory reprogramming of urban mobility in Berlin.

WORKSHOP / STOP-MOTION · CHTO DELAT · 8 & 9 AUG, 11:00–14:00

From Big Bang to Ground Zero and Back: Physics, War and Peace  ·  Dr. Ana Ventura Barroso

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 14:00

Borders Unlimited  ·  Borderless Borders

Border control to the future. Ekaterina Sisfontes, Arik Weismann

ROLE-PLAYING GAME   ·   EXBRACHE    · 14:00-17:00

Reversed Oracle  ·  MishMash

EXBRACHE · 15:00

Long-Distance Running  ·  Vasya Berezin

Runs 100 m, then plays.

PLAY / PERFORMANCE   ·   EXBRACHE · 15:30

Slogan Workshop  ·  Vati Spaß

Runs 100 m, Together we exchange ideas, choose slogans, practise chanting them, and experiment with gesture and movement as part of a collective performance.

SLOGAN WORKSHOP & STREET PERFORMANCE · NETTELBECKPLATZ · 16:00

Invisible Dance  ·  Lex Shcherbakov

A street-dance performance in the S-Bahn.

STREET DANCE · S-BAHNHOF WEDDING · 17:00 (~20 min)

Der Zug nach Hermannstraße  ·  Marina Kniazeva

WORKSHOP · U-BAHN (S41 TO GESUNDBRUNNEN, U8 TO BERNAUER STRASSE) · 17:30

Voices of Emigration: Future and Memory   ·  German Preobrazhensky

Voices of the Russian diaspora, White émigré and Soviet alike, read aloud alongside the everyday actions of an émigré — a reach toward the future whose outcome no one can predict.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 18:00

Voices of black holes: How the Einstein Telescope will shape the future of astronomy  ·  Dr. Mikhail Korobko

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 18:00

The Scene with the Daughter  ·  Denis Mustafin

PLAY · EXBRACHE · 18:30

Tea Party with Schrödinger's Cat  ·  The Miracle Seekers Committee

A quantum performance from the Committee of Miracle Seekers.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 18:50

Music of the Future  ·  Jenya Kukoverov

A live set.

MUSIC · EXBRACHE · 19:00

Three Models of Pitiful Pieces · Uve Moellhusen and Unknown One

Misappropriated objects and body sounds, staged as an irregular sound event — the unexpected as the compositional impulse.

MUSIC PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 20:00

Necrometidation  ·  Maxim Evstropov

A Party of the Dead performance.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 20:30

Revolution is Over. Viva la Revolution!  ·  Vettka Kirillova

A film about “Heimat” and the Party of the Dead, shot in St. Petersburg.

FILM · EXBRACHE · 20:50 (10 min)

Sunday, 9 August

Utopia Under Construction  ·  counterclockwise berlin

Participatory reprogramming of urban mobility in Berlin.

WORKSHOP / STOP-MOTION · CHTO DELAT · 8 & 9 AUG, 11:00–14:00

Architecture of Touch  ·  Agata Sadkevich & Juliia Miagchenko

Interactive performance and wearable installation about clothing as a space of encounter.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · FROM 14:00

Fear no fat: A practical guide to lipids  ·  Dr. Olya Vvedenskaya

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 14:00

Bird Registration  ·  Alexander Morozov

A drawing workshop about birds, paired with a live music performance.

WORKSHOP / MUSIC · EXBRACHE · 15:00

Digital Partizans · Pavel Kopylkov

The Partisians of the future will go into “digital forests”. The resistance would be online, but not in the internet. Come try talking to another person through autonomous mesh-connection.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 15:30

What role should the left play in the future?  ·  The Union of Dreamers

A discussion, moderated by Anton Polsky.

TALK · EXBRACHE · 16:00

Change of State  ·  Jane Sharvina

A video installation — four videos, screened separately or in sequence.

VIDEO INSTALLATION · EXBRACHE · ALL DAY

Quantum Love  ·  Natalia Lizorkina, Fedor Levkovich-Maslyuk, Nikolay Golikov, Antanas Yatsinevichyus, Andrey Strokov

An art-and-science performance.

PERFORMANCE · EXBRACHE · 17:30

How to Emancipate AI  · DeepSeek

A performance that might actually take place.

PLAY · EXBRACHE · 18:00

Teaching Chirality to my Tinder Date  ·  J. Prof. Dr. Daniel Obenchain

Popular science lecture.

LECTURE · CHTO DELAT · 17:00

Friedrich Merzbow – Deportation to the Future  ·  Maxim Evstropov

A noise audio collective.

CONCERT · NETTELBECKPLATZ · 19:30

To be scheduled (day to be confirmed)

Untitled  ·  Splavtheater