Upcoming: stay hungry @ Frog City

You are cordially invited to the art festival FROG CITY!

On September 7 and 8, 2024, the Weißensee open-air stage will open its doors and present works of art outdoors. Sculpture, Installation, Performance and Audioworks will enter into a dialog with the architecture of the open-air stage and the surroundings of the Weißer See. Free of charge!

Participating artists
Art Ashram (Florian Dietrich, Verena Seibt, Dirk Van Lieshout, Markus Zimmermann)
Laure Boer
David Eisl
Catherine Rose Evans
Dorothea Nold
Silvia Noronha
Reto Pulfer
stay hungry (Michel Aniol und Meike Kuhnert)
Xiaoyu Tang
Alisa Tretau

Curated by Georg Scherlin

Programm:
Saturday, Sep. 7th, 2024

12 – 6 pm	Exhibition
1 pm	Tour through the exhibition
1 – 4 pm	interactive Audioplay by Alisa Tretau
2 – 6 pm	Xiaoyu Tang: Ripple Algae Spa
6 – 8 pm	Performances by Laure Boer and Reto Pulfer
9 pm	Ceramic firing with Silvia Noronha

Sunday, Sep. 8th, 2024

12 – 6 pm	Exhibition
1 pm	Tour through the exhibition
1 – 4 pm	interactive Audioplay by Alisa Tretau
2 – 6 pm	Xiaoyu Tang: Ripple Algae Spa

As a climatic factor as well as a local recreation area, the Weißer See is an important part of the Pankow district and has developed into a high-density meeting place in recent years. Yearly falling water levels and brown grass as well as hardly any rest periods for the flora and fauna are the results of an increasing use of the urban natural space and human influence on climatic conditions. Can art provide a new perspective on the situation and generate alternative concepts for understanding nature? Is environmental protection classist in nature, and if so, how can we change this? The festival aims to create low-threshold access to this topic, design artistic utopias and initiate sustainable solutions. The works are based on nature in their choice of materials and aesthetic criteria, and the conscious use of resources is at the forefront of all the works. The exhibition questions the developments that have led to the current climate crisis, as well as urban social processes in dealing with green spaces. In view of the planned redesign of the riverside promenade, the format is also intended as a discussion platform for the preservation of the ecology of the surrounding area.