18/06/2026
SAME OLD MADNESS
Friday 19.6.
Opening 19h
with two performances from 20h
K1wy & thundy86
Saturday 15-19h
Sunday 14-22h
with punk concerts and DJs
15:00h CLUNK! (Band)
16:00h thundy86 (DJ)
17:30h DIE KNÖPFE (Band)
18:30h soft x-ray (DJ)
20:00h DIE VERLIERER (Band)
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Alena Grossberndt
Alena Grossberndt
Paul Waak
thundy86
David Sc*****er
David Sc*****er
Babette Semmer
Hannes Berwingberwing
Paula Breuer
K1wy
miquel
Soft X-Ray
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SPOILER Aktionsraum
Birkenstraße 1
10559 Berlin
The year begins once again the way years have come to begin: as a refresh of a browser tab where the apocalypse has been open for months. People consume news about wars, political crises, AI mania, and collapsing democracies on the same screen where, three seconds later, they’re recommended to shrink their pores. Everyone is exhausted. Not just tired. Competently tired. LinkedIn-compatible tired.
Artists still go to their studios, move things a few centimeters, and have conversations that effortlessly shift between late capitalism and the question of who forgot the extension cord. The software is being updated. Existential uncertainty continues to receive security updates from the Stone Age. The idea that art can exist outside of social contradictions seems about as reliable today as a Wi-Fi signal in the basement.
No one seriously believes that art will save the world. At the same time, however, no one has completely given up. The works in these eight positions therefore function less as answers and more as recordings of a nervous system: humorous, paranoid, tender, overstimulated. And somewhere within all this noise, they carry on. Not because the contradiction has been resolved. But because stopping completely would likely be an even stranger form of madness.
Lucie Freynhagen
