OnSite Berlin 2022

Interdisciplinary Artistic Residency and Festival (2022)

About the residency
OnSite was a interdisciplinary artistic residency and festival held at the Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge in Berlin between August and September 2022. The project brought together 10 creators, artists, thinkers and interdisciplinary practitioners from different countries who applied with an idea for a site-specific project or an action proposal to offer to the human and non-human inhabitants of the city neighbourhood of Herzberge in Berlin-Lichtenberg.

OnSite was divided between moments of collective processes where participants could exchange and work on their artistic projects in relation to the group’s most urgent shared questions; and individual work periods, where each participant was free to use the time in collaboration with other participants or in the development of their individual research. With the help of five local and international artist collectives, the participants had the chance to approach the site-specific characteristics of a 130-year old museum, hospital and park area and to find relationships between that space and their own positionality and (artistic) context.

Resident artists included: Allan Laurent, Gustiele Fistaról, Jaehwa / Jae-Nder Fluid, Elissa de Brito, Linda Zagidulina, Dmytro Goncharenko, Kim Wichera, MXM – Muep Etmo and Mirella Brandi, Tarlie Lumby & Evgenia Chetvertkova, Anderson Kaltner, Andrea Galano Toro and Zachary Schoenhut.

Brecha was of the invited artist collectives to guide the shared and individual processes during focus sessions and workshops throughout the period of the residency, providing practical help and methodological tools for the artists developing their projects. The other facilitators included Radical Data (Barcelona/Amsterdam), Guerilla Architects (Berlin) and Christiane Wiegand | K.I.E.Z. ToGo (Lichtenberg). These groups combined theoretical and practical knowledge in theatre, sound art, film, anthropology, dance, performance, data science, music, dramaturgy, architecture, and community-based, site-specific research.

The residency was hosted and curated by the artists of the transdisciplinary collective Po:era.

The results of the works and experimentations were presented during a three-day festival open to the public help between September 9 – 11, 2022.

More about the residency and festival here.