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Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils
4/25/2026, 3 – 10 PM

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Concerts, readings, performances, participatory installations and audiovisual works embed the leitmotifs of the exhibition – vessel and voyager – in an immersive, performative event.

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Isabel Cruz, Dear Papa (2024) choreography and performance
Isabel Cruz, Dear Papa (2024), choreography and performance
Courtesy Isabel Cruz

The performance programme “Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils” takes place as part of the JUNGE AKADEMIE's exhibition “Vessel & Voyager” and transforms the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg into a breathing, singing, vibrating resonance vessel. In four chapters, spaces are created for encounters, lingering and exchange between performers, visitors, artists and their works.

Concerts, readings, performances, participatory installations and audiovisual works embed the leitmotifs of the exhibition – vessel and voyager – in an immersive, performative event. “Echoes, Ghosts, Songs & Soils” is carried by a chorus of protesting voices, the unfolding of soundscapes and songs, the pulsation of bodies and territories, and the articulation of intimate spheres through language.

With the fellows:
Logan February, Éléonore de Duve, Huihui Cheng, Claudia Durastanti, Jug Đorđević, Isabel Cruz, Regina Menke, Sophie Seita, Franziska Wenning, Sinan Samanli, Hrishikesh Pawar

And the artists:
ensemble mosaik, Lea Barletti & Annette Kopetzki, Rachel Elizabeth Skipor, Anja Gast, Rémy Bocquillon & Maximilian Jean-Luc Ahl, Sasha Amaya, Saeed Asadsangabi & Eve Singleton et al.

About the Individual Works

The event kicks off with a sound-based, participatory performance by theatre director Jug Đorđević. The work is inspired by the protest movements against the Serbian government in response to the Novi Sad railway station accident.

In her choreographic work, dancer Isabel Cruz enters into a dialogue with her late father. Inspired by the feel of the Akademie building, physical resonance spaces and contemplative moments for mourning unfold.

Choreographer and dancer Hrishikesh Pawar returns to the role of dancer and presents two autobiographical works choreographed by Akademie member Arila Siegert.

Composer Huihui Cheng creates a performative listening space at the intersection of sound, theatrical gesture and visual projection with two pieces.

In his concerto for string quartet, composer Sinan Samanli unfolds sound as a fluid landscape, referring to images of waterfalls and cascades.

Through a web of perceptions that connects the many layers of a life, writer Éléonore de Duve brings the world of her protagonist Sophia to life: her tragedy and, behind it – backwards in time – the possibility of a new beginning.

The ecofeminist performance by director and choreographer Franziska Wenning and the audiovisual reading by writer Claudia Durastanti merge inscribed stories of bodies and territories. In the twilight between day and night, dance and literature open up a space in which connectedness with the ground, gravity, magical thinking and transcendence can be experienced anew.

Artist and scientist Sophie Seita activates the graphic scores of her installation in the exhibition hall through a performance. The “moor” becomes a metaphor for depth and permeability, the installation a playground for language.

Poet Regina Menke reads texts from the poetry cycle Schild und Spiel und Idylle, gekehrte und um- (Shield and Play and Idyll, Turned and Turned). The texts revolve around springtails, gaps in teeth, the difficulty of distinguishing between the pronouns “I” and “you”, and the question of whether the landscape should be more tangible.

The poems from Nude Imperative by Logan February move between the poles of love and devotion, discipline and inner conflict, and immanence and transcendence.