Calendar 2025
FUNGHIVERSUM PARKOUR | A performative tour by Katja Tannert
11 am – 12 pm
On an interactive puzzle tour on the grounds of the Floating University, curious visitors aged 6 and over can immerse themselves in the exciting world of mushrooms. Together with a nature educator and an actress, the audience wanders through various stations on the walkways of the site and meets the porcini mushroom, the strawberry and the Humperdick caterpillar, who report on the networked life of mushrooms in short scenes and pose riddles to the audience.
At the end, visitors become a little more expert in this mysterious realm.
From age 6
Berlin University Alliance
ON WATER
Upgrade your Science – How research can benefit from non-scientific knowledge
3 – 6 pm
POST-PONED DUE TO WEATHER !
Research becomes stronger when it opens up. As part of the TD-Lab Funding Programme, eleven projects were funded with up to €10,000 from January to July 2025. These were carried out in close collaboration with co-researchers from the arts and culture, politics and administration, civil society and business – with a particular focus on water issues.
The closing event of the first funding cohort of the TD-Lab Funding Programme of the Berlin University Alliance will present the eleven participatory (water research) projects. They will provide insights into their approaches, successes and challenges and show what transdisciplinary cooperation can look like in practice.
6-9pm
WE ARE THE RIVER / DER FLUSS SIND WIR / NOUS SOMMES LA RIVIERE
04.07.25
18h-23h
On the 4th and the 5th of July, the programme ’THE NIGHT OF IDEAS: We are the RIVER / Wir sind der FLUSS’ will take place in Berlin with the aim of reflecting on the ‘legal uprising’ of the elements of nature.
Since Christopher Stone, in 1972, had the idea of changing the status of trees, from “objects”, to “subjects”, in order for them to be able to go to court and defend their non-human perspectives and values, the movement for giving rights to non-human entities has grown around the world.
It is a silent revolution, where rivers, lakes, lagoons, oceans… are gradually gaining the status of “legal persons” and are granted rights like in Ecuador with the Pachamama entering the constitution (2008) and the Whanganui river being legally recognized (2017) among others. How are European rivers and natural entities being voiced? Which tools, stories, perspectives, and paradigms do we manipulate to operate an ontological and legal shift?
The festival seeks to create a space for thought and collective discussions on the rights of nature establishing a framework where the arts, sciences, legal work, theoretical knowledge as well as manual and embodied practices help us connect with the rivers as «persons/entities”, and particularly the Spree, allowing us to reflect and imagine a more inclusive, sustainable and habitable future.
The festival is co-organized by Institut Français Deutschland and members of Floating e.V. in co-curation with the artist and writer Camille de Toledo.
04.-05.07.2025
Am 4. und 5. Juli findet in Berlin das Programm „THE NIGHT OF IDEAS: We are the RIVER / Wir sind der FLUSS“ statt – mit dem Ziel, über den „legalen Aufstand“ der Naturelemente nachzudenken.
Seitdem der Jurist Christopher Stone 1972 vorschlug, den rechtlichen Status von Bäumen zu ändern – sie nicht mehr als „Objekte“, sondern als „Subjekte“ zu betrachten, damit sie vor Gericht für ihre nicht-menschlichen Perspektiven und Werte eintreten können – wächst weltweit eine Bewegung, die nicht-menschlichen Wesen Rechte zuspricht.
Es ist eine stille Revolution, in der Flüsse, Seen, Lagunen, Ozeane nach und nach den Status von „juristischen Personen“ erhalten und Rechte zugesprochen bekommen – so etwa in Ecuador, wo die Pachamama 2008 in die Verfassung aufgenommen wurde, oder 2017 in Neuseeland, wo der Whanganui-Fluss offiziell als Rechtsperson anerkannt wurde.
Doch wie bekommen Flüsse und andere natürliche Entitäten in Europa eine Stimme? Mit welchen Werkzeugen, Erzählungen, Perspektiven und Paradigmen arbeiten wir, um einen ontologischen und juristischen Wandel zu ermöglichen?
Das Festival will einen Raum für gemeinsames Denken und kollektiven Austausch über die Rechte der Natur schaffen – ein Rahmen, in dem Kunst, Wissenschaft, Recht, Theorie, manuelle und verkörperte Praxis zusammenwirken, um unsere Beziehung zu Flüssen als „Personen“ oder „Entitäten“ neu zu denken – insbesondere zur Spree – und uns dabei zu helfen, eine inklusivere, nachhaltigere und lebenswertere Zukunft zu entwerfen.
Das Festival wird vom Institut Français Deutschland gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern von Floating e.V. organisiert und in Ko-Kuration mit dem Künstler und Autor Camille de Toledo durchgeführt.
PROGRAM
18:50 Uhr: Eröffnung
19:00 Uhr: Rundgang zur Annäherung an die Frage: eine thematische Führung durch die Floating University
20:00 Uhr: Vorträge “Die Rechte der Natur, eine kurze Geschichte…” mit Dr. Camille de Toledo
“… Und wie sieht es in Deutschland aus?” mit Emmanuel Schlichter (Rechte der Natur e.V.)
21:30 Uhr: Kurzfilmabend “Under the Surface we Breathe”
“Aquel verano del 22. Las leyes” von Lorenzo Sandoval
“I Am The River, The River Is Me” (Ausschnitt) von Petr Lom
“The Snoring of the Bocachico” von Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Pablo Torres Gómez
“Wild Summon” von Karni Arieli & Saul Freed
“Vestali liquide” von Nora Mandray
Ein Gespräch mit Nora Mandray findet nach dem Screening statt.
SAVE THE DATE!
WE ARE THE RIVER / DER FLUSS SIND WIR / NOUS SOMMES LA RIVIERE
05.07.25
14h-00h
On the 4th and the 5th of July, the programme ’THE NIGHT OF IDEAS: We are the RIVER / Wir sind der FLUSS’ will take place in Berlin with the aim of reflecting on the ‘legal uprising’ of the elements of nature.
Since Christopher Stone, in 1972, had the idea of changing the status of trees, from “objects”, to “subjects”, in order for them to be able to go to court and defend their non-human perspectives and values, the movement for giving rights to non-human entities has grown around the world.
It is a silent revolution, where rivers, lakes, lagoons, oceans… are gradually gaining the status of “legal persons” and are granted rights like in Ecuador with the Pachamama entering the constitution (2008) and the Whanganui river being legally recognized (2017) among others. How are European rivers and natural entities being voiced? Which tools, stories, perspectives, and paradigms do we manipulate to operate an ontological and legal shift?
The festival seeks to create a space for thought and collective discussions on the rights of nature establishing a framework where the arts, sciences, legal work, theoretical knowledge as well as manual and embodied practices help us connect with the rivers as «persons/entities”, and particularly the Spree, allowing us to reflect and imagine a more inclusive, sustainable and habitable future.
The festival is co-organized by Institut Français Deutschland and members of Floating e.V. in co-curation with the artist and writer Camille de Toledo.
04.-05.07.2025
Am 4. und 5. Juli findet in Berlin das Programm „THE NIGHT OF IDEAS: We are the RIVER / Wir sind der FLUSS“ statt – mit dem Ziel, über den „legalen Aufstand“ der Naturelemente nachzudenken.
Seitdem der Jurist Christopher Stone 1972 vorschlug, den rechtlichen Status von Bäumen zu ändern – sie nicht mehr als „Objekte“, sondern als „Subjekte“ zu betrachten, damit sie vor Gericht für ihre nicht-menschlichen Perspektiven und Werte eintreten können – wächst weltweit eine Bewegung, die nicht-menschlichen Wesen Rechte zuspricht.
Es ist eine stille Revolution, in der Flüsse, Seen, Lagunen, Ozeane nach und nach den Status von „juristischen Personen“ erhalten und Rechte zugesprochen bekommen – so etwa in Ecuador, wo die Pachamama 2008 in die Verfassung aufgenommen wurde, oder 2017 in Neuseeland, wo der Whanganui-Fluss offiziell als Rechtsperson anerkannt wurde.
Doch wie bekommen Flüsse und andere natürliche Entitäten in Europa eine Stimme? Mit welchen Werkzeugen, Erzählungen, Perspektiven und Paradigmen arbeiten wir, um einen ontologischen und juristischen Wandel zu ermöglichen?
Das Festival will einen Raum für gemeinsames Denken und kollektiven Austausch über die Rechte der Natur schaffen – ein Rahmen, in dem Kunst, Wissenschaft, Recht, Theorie, manuelle und verkörperte Praxis zusammenwirken, um unsere Beziehung zu Flüssen als „Personen“ oder „Entitäten“ neu zu denken – insbesondere zur Spree – und uns dabei zu helfen, eine inklusivere, nachhaltigere und lebenswertere Zukunft zu entwerfen.
Das Festival wird vom Institut Français Deutschland gemeinsam mit Mitgliedern von Floating e.V. organisiert und in Ko-Kuration mit dem Künstler und Autor Camille de Toledo durchgeführt.
PROGRAM
13:30 Uhr: Eröffnung
14:00-14:30 Uhr: Vorträge “Die Rechte der Natur, eine kurze Geschichte…” mit Dr. Camille de Toledo
“… Und wie sieht es in Deutschland aus?” mit Emmanuel Schlichter (Rechte der Natur e.V.)
14:30-16:30 Uhr: Workshops
Workshop – TEXTILE – River Assemblage
Workshop für Kinder – Water Bodies Manifest
Workshop – Working Spree
14:30-16:30 Uhr: Apero der Ideen – Fluid Encounters
Kommt mit unseren Expert:innen ins Gespräch! Mit Alisa Tretau, Jakob Kukula, Fotini Takirdiki, Tomás Usón, Emmanuel Schlichter, Desirée Hetzel, Fabien Bidaut & Claire Mélot
16:00-17:00 Uhr: Akustische Siesta “Atrato: Water of Dreams” mit Elizabeth Gallón Droste & Pablo Torres Gómez (~pes)
17:30-18:30 Uhr: Diskussionsrunde “Wir sind die Spree” mit Jakob Kukula, Künstler, Desirée Hetzel, Umweltanthropologin, Fotini Takirdiki, Doktorandin am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie
Moderation: Garance Maurer
18:30-19:00 Uhr: “Working Spree – Ein neues Narrativ für die Spree” – Ergebnisse des Workshops mit Régis Lemberthe
18:30-20:00 Uhr: “IN/OUT UTERO”, Performance von und mit Joséphine Auffray
20:00-20:30 Uhr: “Voicing the Rivers”, Performance mit Alisa Tretau
21:30-22:45 Uhr: Jérôme Bel über die “Non human Dances” mit Live Performance “The Lion’s Vocabulary” mit Xavier Le Roy, Alexandre Achour, Zeina Hanna & Scarlet Yu
23:00-23:30 Uhr: “The River L. Story”, Performance mit Camille de Toledo, Régis Lemberthe & Yvonne Ernicke
Vor Ort erwarten Sie außerdem ein (Re)Source Open Archive, eine Bar, ein Snackangebot und das Gezwitscher der Vögel. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch!
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
07.07.2025 – 11.07.2025
Some Practical City Magic: Physical and Imaginative Practices for a Future City
Workshop hosted by by Sabine Zahn and Daniel Belasco Rogers
“Some Practical City Magic” is a five-day workshop offered by the UdK Berlin Summer University of the Arts. Through imaginative, choreographic and somatic practices, the course aims to transform the urban into a collective space for action, generating new space that resists the neoliberal tendencies of urban developments. In this context, magic is understood as the directing of attention and imagination in order to effect change.
Applications are open via summer-university.udk-berlin.de until June 8.
6-9pm
[ENG]
Sat 12.7.2025
14-22h
Sun 13.7.2025
12-14h
Schwarzes Eis is a poetic, installative and participative micro-festival. It is about the balancing act between fear of loss and joyful resilience, where ambivalence is at home, where fears are real but also exciting or seemingly banal, and where stories of loss can be deeply sad and beautiful at the same time. Two days and two formats to try out how to face the darkness together, with surprisingly joyful perspectives, objects and their own lives, tips, tricks and ice cream.
Including: WilderVerband street theatre: Furchteis Sorgé
a lyrical street theatre piece in an ice cream van containing a machine that turns fears and worries into ice cream, making dark clouds culinary and collectively digestible.
And: the book project: Unbehagen.fm is a narrative installation for cold horror and icy shivers in the sauna of the Floating University. A hybrid of cabinet of curiosities, broadcasting studio and text archive refrigerator. A space to read aloud and be read to. Live authors: Esther Becker, Nele Brönner and others.
featured by Buchhandlung DanteConnection
Compiled by Sabine Zahn and Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
for adults and non-adults, ice cream lovers and other easily traumatised members of society.
In german. Free admission.
[DE]
Samstag 12.7. 2025
14-22h
Sonntag 13.7. 2025
12-14h
Schwarzes Eis ist ein poetisch, installatives und partizipatives Minifestival. Es geht um den Drahtseilakt zwischen Verlustangst und freudiger Resilienz,in dem Zwiespältigkeiten zu Hause sind, Ängste real aber auch aufregend oder scheinabr banal und in dem Geschichten von Verlusten tieftraurig und zugleich wunderschön sein können. Zwei Tage und zwei Formate um zu probieren, wie dem Dunkel gemeinsam zu begegnen wäre, mit überraschend freudigen Perspektiven, Objekten und deren Eigenleben, Tips, Tricks und Eis.
Mit dabei: Straßentheater WilderVerband: Furchteis Sorgé
ein lyrisches Strassentheaterstück im Eiswagen in dem eine Maschine steckt, die Ängste und Sorgen zu Eis verarbeitet und so dunkle Wolken kulinarisch und kollektiv verdaubar macht.
Und: das Buchprojekt: Unbehagen.fm ist eine Erzählinstallation für kaltes Grausen und eisige Schauer in der Sauna der Floating University. Ein Hybrid aus Wunderkammer, Übertragungsstudio und Textarchivkühlschrank. Ein Raum zum laut vorlesen und belesen werden. Live Autor*innen: Esther Becker, Nele Brönner u.a.
featured by Buchhandlung DanteConnection
Zusammengestellt von Sabine Zahn und Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius
für Erwachsene und Unerwachsene, Eisliebhaber*innen und andere leicht traumatisierbare Mitglieder der Gesellschaft.
Auf deutsch. Eintritt frei.
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
6-9pm
[ENG]
3—00pm
July 2005 raumlabor and club real build a mountain into the Palast der Republik with HAU and Sophiensaele. With them, many, many pioneers of Berlin’s subculture colonise its flanks and make it clear: This is our house! As the culmination of this major campaign to de-ideologise the building, a new party was founded in the former meeting room of the People’s Chamber of the GDR under the leadership of Dada pastor Leumund Kult. The Mountain Party.
“It rains through the ceiling onto our founding meeting and forms.
The election committee, which shortly afterwards refused to allow the Bergpartei to stand in the Bundestag elections, accused us of not having a sufficient party programme on the issue of the demolition of a building, even though the Bundestag had met several times on this very issue.” (Leumund)
The palace is now gone, but the Berg Party is still there.
The programme has always been more than just saving a butterfly made of concrete: “Bicycles don’t burn”, “Politics can be fun too”, “Growth as a wooden path”, “Broke but by your side” and “Fuck your big project”.
We will collect more moving slogans at the anniversary celebration on 19 July 2025
With an exhibition of election posters and advertising spots, poster auction, poster workshop, flaming speeches, discussions, party soup and concerts with Bernadette la Hengst & the Choir of Statistics, Mittekill with Pastor Leumund and much more.
Free admission
[DE]
15—24 Uhr
Juli 2005 raumlabor und club real bauen mit HAU und Sophiensaelen einen Berg in den Palast der Republik. Mit ihnen besiedeln viele, sehr viele Pioniere der Berliner Subkultur seine Flanken und machen klar: Das ist unser Haus! Als Gipfel dieser Großkampagne zur De-ideologisierung des Gebäudes wird im ehemaligen Sitzungssaal der Volkskammer der DDR unter der Leitung von Dada-Pastor Leumund Kult eine neue Partei gegründet. Die Bergpartei.
“Durch die Decke regnet es auf unsere Gründungsversammlung und -Formulare.
Der Wahlausschuss, der die Bergpartei kurze Zeit später nicht zur Bundestagswahl zulassen sollte, warf uns vor, dass die Frage über den Abriss eines Gebäudes nicht ausreicht als Parteiprogramm, obwohl der Bundestag gerade hierüber mehrmals getagt hatte.” (Leumund)
Der Palast ist nun weg, aber die Bergpartei ist noch da.
Das Programm war schon immer mehr als die Rettung eines Schmetterlings aus Beton: “Fahrräder brennen nicht”, „Spass kann auch Politik machen“, „Wachstum als Holzweg“, „Pleite aber an deiner Seite“ und “Fick dein Großprojekt”.
Mehr bewegende Slogans sammeln wir auf der Jubiläumsfeier am 19.7.2025
Mit Wahlplakat -und Wahlwerbespot-Ausstellung, Plakat-Auktion, Plakat-Workshop, flammenden Reden, Diskussionen, Parteisuppe und Konzerte mit Bernadette la Hengst & dem Chor der Statistik, Mittekill mit Pastor Leumund u.v.m.
Ohne Anmeldung
http://www.bergpartei.de/
We warmly invite you to join the ‘Droughtposium’ – this year’s Learnscapes Symposium on
July, 20th 2025, 14:00 – 19:00
The Symposium invites past, present and future participants of the Learnscapes Programme for an afternoon of exchange and get-togethers, an opportunity to dive into the Floating landscapes of knowledge production and practices of un-, co- and re-learning beyond academia. We would like to use the opportunity of coming together once again to collectively shape next year’s Learnscapes Programme at Floating and to continue thinking further about the Learnscapes Community of Practice.
Following years of immersion in the damp conditions of our Learnscapes swamp, we are now turning our attention to the drought: to scarcity, to depletion and to the question of how to sustain ourselves and each other when resources run dry. How can we rethink our practices, our solidarities and our ways of learning together in the face of exhaustion and drying out?
Organised by: Kristin Laz, Sarah Bovelett, Lisa van Heyden, Silvia Gioberti, Markus Bader, Benjamin Foerster-Baldenius, Raul Walch
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
LAST MONDAY OF THE SEASON
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
6-9pm
6-9pm
6-9pm
(in)tangible transmissions
Sat 09.08.2025
2 – 10 pm
In sonic excursions, (in)tangible transmissions delves into electromagnetic interferences and aerial transmissions. With specific kinds of antennas, artists follow the inconspicuous spread of radio frequencies and radar over Floating’s open-air terrain that is characterised by both urban and natural ecologies. Sensitive to radio atmospheres, materialities and local topographies, the artists explore the sonic potential of the electromagnetic fields as they interact with this particular site.
Sound and concert installations, developed by Kris Kuldkepp and Wouter Jaspers, as well as a workshop hosted by Martin Kuentz invite the audience to participate in radiophonic observations and a collective ›remote listening‹. Drawing from their personal experiences at the location, the artists explore the complex and dynamic interplay between nature, technology, people and the urban environment.
The focus is on dialogues, interactions and learning processes. With hybrid antenna sculptures in Wouter Jasper’s concert installation, audiences learn to interact and disturb radiophonic wave patterns, becoming interceptions to create field fluctuations and chaotically noisy whistlers. Kris Kuldkepp’s work examines the ›paranormal‹ sound field and radically re-embodied resonances of spiritual movements that surround us. The workshop will introduce the basic principles of radio waves in detail and allow participants to create their own receiving and transmitting devices.
The performances start at 8 pm. Workshop registration via www.intangible-transmissions.com.
A production by Wouter Jasper and Karin Weissenbrunner.
Funded by inm – initiative neue musik berlin e.V.
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Past programs
Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds
Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
~ ❋ ~
If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org
Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)
26.04.2025
3 – 6 pm
Rainwater retention basin – history of the site
This workshop invites participants to collectively explore the history of a unique urban site. The retention basin is a technical structure in which the Floating University has been coexisting since 2018, creating an experimental space, where city and nature, research and imagination, seamlessly intertwine. Through a guided tour and shared reflections, we will observe the fragile interplay between environment and urbanity and ask ourselves: What stories do places like this tell — and which ones do we want to carry into the future?
At the heart of the workshop are questions of appropriation and responsibility:
What does it mean to appropriate spaces in the city — not as possessions, but as shared practices in solidarity with their past? How can a place be more than just used — how can it be cared for and thoughtfully developed? And how can we understand places like the Floating University as spaces of possibility that allow us to renegotiate our relationship to the city, to nature, and to one another?
Workshop-organization: Ute Lindenbeck
Register here !
A workshop tour by VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in cooperation with Floating e.V.
Magic & Power: Reclaim Walpurgis Night
3pm-10pm | FULL PROGRAM
The figure of the witch is deeply rooted in our culture – often as a threat, an outsider, an evil old woman. Behind this narrative lies the history of oppression, power and resistance. The image of the witch is a symptom of patriarchal structures – but it can also be a symbol of self-empowerment.
We are taking Walpurgis Night as an opportunity to confront this negative narrative with artistic-discursive formats and counter it with feminist narration.
A sound installation brings together voices that illuminate the political dimension of the witch. A workshop imparts knowledge about medicinal plants as a resistant practice from a decolonial perspective. At an experimental dinner, we will talk about what health equity means and the sauna will become a symbolic fire, accompanied by a collective reading.
We invite you to create a space for empowerment, solidarity and new narratives together.
Silja Teresa Huppertz in cooperation with Floating e.V.
All events are free and open to everyone. Children are welcome!
Supported with funds from the Kultur am 1. Mai project fund of the Friedrichshaim-Kreuzberg district authority.
Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds
Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
~ ❋ ~
If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org
Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
STARTS NOW: every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
08.05.2025
2pm-10pm
Floating e.V. invites you to explore the history surrounding the former Tempelhof Airport in the context of the liberation in 1945. The traces of the war are explored with artistic activities to counteract forgetting and the misappropriation of history.
The Floating Kidsuni invites children to explore the neighbourhood photographically and to create an exhibition together in which their discoveries are presented and discussed.
A Memory Walk through the Tempelhof suburb sheds light on the persecution of various groups and focuses on the former Columbia concentration camp.
The Office for Neighbourhood Networks, together with the Learnscapes programme for university cooperation at Floating University, is collecting reports from contemporary witnesses and collaging a map of memory. People from the neighbourhood are invited to contribute materials.
Visitors come together at a discursive dinner and share their experiences of the day.
The event will conclude with a film programme with further perspectives.
We want to remember in order to understand the present and draw strength for future democratic action.
You can find the full programme and further information here.
The programme is a cooperation with Kulturprojekte Berlin and takes place in the context of 80 Years of the End of the War
10.05.2025
3 – 6pm
In cooperation with VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg
In this workshop, we will explore the unique ecosystem of the rainwater basin. We will exchange ideas on ecological practices used to strengthen local biodiversity, such as promoting natural plant alliances, supporting insect-friendly flora, and understanding the role of wild plants in ecosystem regeneration. We will kick off the gardening season with a collective sowing activity and conclude our gathering with a seed swap to help spread biodiversity throughout the city.
With Adriana Gahona Miranda.
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.
8pm
A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.
MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.
8pm
A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.
MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.
8pm
A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.
MarsOnEarth: Die Marsnahme | andcompany&Co.
8pm
A combination of art, science and activism: With “MarsOnEarth,” the theatre collective andcompany&Co. is staging a science fiction happening on the grounds of the Floating University Berlin. Inspired by Soviet science fiction, the performance addresses the exploitation of resources and uses music and sustainable materials to develop new visions for a future worth living on Earth.
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
WasserkostBar | Havelland Grundschule
9am – 1pm
We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!
The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.
Floating will be open in the evening from 6-9pm.
Where technical infrastructure and biotope meet: a water exploration
3 – 6 pm
In cooperation with Gilberto-Bosques VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Please register here. The workshop will be in German, English translation possible.
The rainwater retention basin in Kreuzberg is more than just infrastructure – it’s a rare urban water biotope. How can its protection be balanced with technical maintenance? Join Floating e.V. to explore the diverse water world, conduct simple measurement for water quality, and dive into the vision of a climate-adapted “sponge city.” Together, we’ll imagine the future of artificial water reservoirs in Berlin.
WasserkostBar | Canisius College
12 – 2 pm
We invite you to become part of Floating University‘s WasserkostBar. Floating University is located in a rainwater retention basin. Find out what it is a “sponge city” and why Berlin wants to become one. We’ll also take a look at where our water comes from, where water is found and what we put into it and why. We will find, drink and eat different water mixes together and once you have become water experts, you will make your own drinks for the WasserkostBar and for our water library.
These can be delicious, thought-provoking, shocking and funny. Let us surprise you!
The WasserkostBar is funded by Berliner Wasserbetriebe.
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
7-9 pm
A Nomadic Book by Office for a Human Theatre
Co-edited by Filippo Andreatta and Sarah Messerschmidt
Published by bruno
Conversation with Filippo Andreatta, Michael S Bekele, Xuetong Cecilia Feng, Gianni Laneri, Sarah Messerschmidt & Rosario Talevi
Floating Gardens call for contribution: Conserving through growing of ancient seeds
Floating Gardens are committed to the in-situ conservation of non GMO seeds! Our community seed saving and growing practice embeds a living archive of botanical diversity in the ecological context of the site. This year, we are inviting individuals, seed networks and organisations to share ancient seeds and their stories with us, from crops, herbs and spontaneous flowers!
In autumn, the harvested seeds of these then grown plants will be shared with local horticultural communities and individuals to be planted again next year, promoting and multiplying the in-situ conservation of these valuable endangered species in urban spaces.
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If you’d like to send us a choice of seeds and their stories, we look forward reading from you: gardens@floating-berlin.org
Yours, Floating Gardens (Lorene Blanche, Adriana Gahona)
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
Pandoras Podcast | Neuköllner Oper
8pm
The box is rattling: For far too long, Pandora has been blamed for all the world’s misfortunes. But that’s all over now. And now is exactly the right time for a change of image – the battle has begun!
It’s not a podcast about babbling, but ‘organic sludge for your frown lines’ and a scenic concert with experimental jazzy-pop compositions by Franziska Aller with performances at the Neukölln Opera, the Floating University (open air) and the Galerie im Körnerpark.
Pandoras Podcast | Neuköllner Oper
8pm
The box is rattling: For far too long, Pandora has been blamed for all the world’s misfortunes. But that’s all over now. And now is exactly the right time for a change of image – the battle has begun!
It’s not a podcast about babbling, but ‘organic sludge for your frown lines’ and a scenic concert with experimental jazzy-pop compositions by Franziska Aller with performances at the Neukölln Opera, the Floating University (open air) and the Galerie im Körnerpark.
Situated Creative Practices for the Pluriverse
7- 9 pm
A conversation between Elizabeth Gallón Droste, Pablo Calderón Salazar, and Lorenzo Gerbi, moderated by Rosaura Romero about pluriverse in artistic practices, radical pedagogy, and community-led knowledge.
SIT-PLU is a Creative Europe project addressing socio-ecological challenges through site-specific art. Inspired by the Zapatista pluriverse, it fosters diverse ways of knowing, communal interdependence, and human/more-than-human relations.
Soil Architecture
3 – 6 pm
In cooperation with Gilberto-Bosques VHS Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Please register here. The workshop will be in German, English translation possible.
For the past four years, composting has been underway at the stormwater retention basin of Tempelhof Airport to improve soil quality and boost biodiversity. Which organisms are involved, and how can initiatives like Floating e.V. support them? Join Martina Kolarek on an interactive tour to explore the soils, their architecture, and their inhabitants, and discuss sustainable paths for their future together.
With Martina Kolarek / DIE BODEN SCHAFFT
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
6-9pm
7-8 pm
“Cuerpos de Agua & Rituales Ancestrales” (Water Bodies & Ancestral Rituals) is an interdisciplinary performance inspired by the poetic Nahua worldview (cosmovision) and the aquatic landscapes of Berlin. Through dance, music, and ritual gestures, the project explores the relationship between body, territory, and memory, activating a critical dialogue about water as an ecological and social connector. The choreography offers an immersive experience that addresses the migrant body and its interaction with ancestral practices in urban contexts, inviting us to reflect on the ways in which water shapes communities and cultural environments.
Wasserkörper & Ahnenrituale
„Cuerpos de Agua & Rituales Ancestrales“ ist eine interdisziplinäre Performance, inspiriert von der poetischen Nahua-Kosmovision und den Wasserlandschaften Berlins. Durch Tanz, Musik und rituelle Gesten erforscht das Projekt die Beziehung zwischen Körper, Territorium und Erinnerung und eröffnet einen kritischen Dialog über Wasser als ökologisches und soziales Bindeglied. Die Choreografie bietet ein immersives Erlebnis, das den migrantischen Körper und seine Interaktion mit traditionellen Praktiken in zeitgenössischen urbanen Kontexten thematisiert. Dazu lädt das Publikum ein, darüber nachzudenken, wie Wasser Gemeinschaften und kulturelle Umgebungen prägt.
The event is free of admission and registration is not essential required
www.berlinwaterdances.de
For questions about the event: cuerposdeagua.info@gmail.com
Organized by / organiziert von :
Gabriela Ortiz & Areli Moran
With the support of / mit der Unterstützung von:
Global Water Dances, Dancers Without Borders, LABAN, Dezentrale Kulturarbeit Tempelhof-Schöneberg, Expectante, Migrarte Peru and Hand in Hand Familienzentrum.
FUNGHIVERSUM PARKOUR | A performative tour by Katja Tannert
Sa June 14| In the frame of “Langer Tag der Stadtnatur”
11 am – 12 pm
1 – 2 pm
On an interactive puzzle tour on the grounds of the Floating University, curious visitors aged 6 and over can immerse themselves in the exciting world of mushrooms. Together with a nature educator and an actress, the audience wanders through various stations on the walkways of the site and meets the porcini mushroom, the strawberry and the Humperdick caterpillar, who report on the networked life of mushrooms in short scenes and pose riddles to the audience.
At the end, visitors become a little more expert in this mysterious realm.
From age 6
6-9pm
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
ERRANT SOUND – SONIC FRAGILITIES
Soundart Exhibition
Saturday 21. 06. 2025 15:00 – 22:00
Amid the branching walkways, platforms, and banks of Floating Berlin, 13 artists from the Errant Sound group present a delicate ensemble of sound works. Simultaneous moments and intentional pauses weave a fragile web of acoustic interactions, shaped by the unique setting of an urban space undergoing renaturalization. Installations, performances, a sound walk and a workshop invite visitors to fully immerse themselves in the dynamic interplay between landscape and the act of listening.
With Soundinstallations by Andrei Cucu, Özcan Ertek, Max Joy, Jutta Ravenna, Kirsten Reese, Bea Targosz, and Georg Werner, Performances by Nico Daleman, Alessandra Eramo, Laura Mello, Steffi Weismann, and Jeremy Woodruff, a sound walk by Janine Eisenächer and a workshop with Laura Mello.
Please visit https://errantsound.net/2025/06/sonic-fragilities/ for detailed informations and schedule
Reservations for the soundwalk and the workshop: contact@errantsound.net
Tickets: floating prices, donation based.
a project by Errant Sound e.V. with generous support by initiative neue Musik berlin e.V.
ERRANT SOUND – SONIC FRAGILITIES
Soundart Exhibition
Sunday 22. 06. 2025 11:00 – 21:00
Amid the branching walkways, platforms, and banks of Floating Berlin, 13 artists from the Errant Sound group present a delicate ensemble of sound works. Simultaneous moments and intentional pauses weave a fragile web of acoustic interactions, shaped by the unique setting of an urban space undergoing renaturalization. Installations, performances, a sound walk and a workshop invite visitors to fully immerse themselves in the dynamic interplay between landscape and the act of listening.
With Soundinstallations by Andrei Cucu, Özcan Ertek, Max Joy, Jutta Ravenna, Kirsten Reese, Bea Targosz, and Georg Werner, Performances by Nico Daleman, Alessandra Eramo, Laura Mello, Steffi Weismann, and Jeremy Woodruff, a sound walk by Janine Eisenächer and a workshop with Laura Mello.
Please visit https://errantsound.net/2025/06/sonic-fragilities/ for detailed informations and schedule
Reservations for the soundwalk and the workshop: contact@errantsound.net
Tickets: floating prices, donation based.
a project by Errant Sound e.V. with generous support by initiative neue Musik berlin e.V.
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
Book Launch
The Water Runs Through Us: Experimental Water Filtration Systems and Practices
6 – 10pm
We warmly invite you to the book launch of The Water Runs Through Us: Experimental Water Filtration Systems and Practices at Floating University Berlin. The book was written by Katherine Ball, a member of the association Floating e.V. It features stories about water from the team that started Floating in 2018. It presents alternative methods of water filtration and purification, and explores the role of water within urban environments. The graphic design was created by Felix Egle, who was part of the first generation of students at Floating.
The event is free of admission and registration is not essential or required.
For questions about the event: k.wildner@adocs.de
The book is published by adocs, a publishing house based in Hamburg.
Organized by adocs
Printing funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
6-9pm
Space for Practice: a regular movement practice at Floating
every MONDAY
9-11am
Space for practice is a regularly happening movement practice under and with all irregular condtions at stake. Choreographers propose their current approaches, Floating offers its current conditions and participants offer their commitment: to move and make space. This year SfP is lead again by the trio of Lea Ghyslaine and Sabine with occasional guests.
(In English and German)
Moderated and facilitated by Lea Martini, Sabine Zahn, Ghyslaine Gau
With the support of the basic funding Senat für Kultur und Europa.
30.06.2025 – 04.07.2025
Utopian Relationships: Autoethnographies of Naturecultures
Workshop hosted by Johanna Kirschbauer and Vera Klocke
“Utopian Relationships” is a five-day workshop offered by the UdK Berlin Summer University of the Arts. The course explores the entanglement of nature and culture through embodied somatic knowledge production. By investigating the concept of naturecultures, participants will engage in multi-sensory, creative, ethnographic and critical practices to explore how our surroundings inform our learning experiences and relationships with non-human actants.
Applications are open via summer-university.udk-berlin.de until June 1st.
