October 16th, 2024
#BerlinIstKultur day of action
Prevent cultural dismantle!
In view of the impending cuts to Berlin's budget, Berlin's diverse cultural scene has launched a joint campaign. The campaign kicks off with the #BerlinIstKultur day of action on October 16, 2024.
Throughout this day, there will be a variety of protest actions in Berlin's cultural institutions, at independent venues and throughout the city, including with the public!
The campaign will continue on October 17 with background discussions at the plenary session in the Berlin House of Representatives and will run until the final budget decisions in November 2024.
What is happening with us:
CCC-Lifetimes by PSR Collective - special edition “Crisis Karaoke - Rage against Art Cuts” with Anne Marina Fidler and Holden Madagame
16.10.2024, 20:00 Heizhaus in the Uferstudios
At a time when we need the arts the most, at a time when the world is on fire in more ways than one, at a time when art motivates us to make a difference, offer cohesion or comfort each other, Berlin has decided to make huge budget cuts in the arts.
Does this make you angry? Does it make you want to cry and scream into your pillow? If so, join Anne Fidler and Holden Madagame for their special edition of “Crisis Karaoke - Rage against Art Cuts!” on our day of protest on 16.10.24.
In addition, we, Uferstudios GmbH and our local partners - ada Studio für zeitgenössischen Tanz, Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (HZT) Berlin, Tanzbüro Berlin, Tanzfabrik Berlin and Künstler*innenkollektiv PSR - will symbolically close the gate of our main entrance with red and white barrier tape on October 16. All visitors will be admitted through the side entrance and informed about the day of action and the campaign.
The entrance to the stage area will also only be accessible through physical contortions (accessibility will be maintained at certain points).
The entire area will be marked with red and white flutter tape!
October 15th, 2024
Open call for artistic residencies
by Making a Difference
Making a Difference is offering a short-term residency for a team of three people between November 11 and November 17, 2024.
Disabled, Deaf and/or chronically ill artists and allies from Berlin are invited to use studio 17 at Uferstudios. They can explore common themes, develop working methods or think about future projects.
A final presentation promoted via Making a Difference is possible.
Making a Difference provides a budget of three fees of each 1200 €, material costs and basic technical support.
Travel and accommodation for one artist who is not from Berlin can be covered by arrangement.
Please send your application with a letter of motivation (may 1 din A4 page or 5 min audio / video) and short bios of all participants to mad@uferstudios.com by 24.10.2024.
September 30th, 2024
Making a Difference with a new team of project managers!
Since July 2024, Leo Naomi Baur (they/them), Berlin-based choreographer and video artist, and Juli Reinartz (she/they), choreographer working in Berlin and internationally, are forming the new project management team for Making a Difference!
Both were previously observers of the project. Here they introduce themselves.
September 12th, 2024
Exhibition opening INDUSTRY
In the frame of the Berlin Art Week 2024
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) presents INDUSTRY as a guest at the Uferstudios and Uferhallen. This project sheds light on the entire complex of the former main workshops of the Berlin Transport Company (Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe, BVG) and links the history of the Gesundbrunnen district in the 20th century with current discussions on deindustrialization and the cultural industry. A new work by Karo Akpokiere and a large-scale kinetic piece by Oscar Peters revisit forgotten aspects of Wedding’s history and the former “Boulevard Badstrasse.” The exhibition also provides a platform for artistic interventions by locally based and internationally networked artists and will be opened until September 22th.
September 13th, 2024
Dance needs you!
Call for a demonstration on September 13, 2024 from 6-8 pm at the Brandenburg Gate
The current cuts in federal cultural funds of up to 50% and the expected cuts at Berlin level of 10-12% will have devastating consequences for the entire independent scene and dance in particular. The situation for self-employed dance professionals is already catastrophic, with an average annual income below the subsistence level. The Berlin dance scene is in danger of being dried up by further cuts. We must defend ourselves against this!
On 13 September 2024, the Dachverband Tanz is organizing a day of action in front of the Brandenburg Gate to draw attention to the importance of dance in Germany.
Starting at 3 pm, a performative supporting program will take place and from 6 pm to 8 pm speeches and statements by politicians and cultural workers are planned. That's exactly when we need you! Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V. is planning a demonstration and would like to show together with dance institutions, dance professionals and the dance audience that there are many of us who stand for dance in Berlin.
More information on the current situation of dance professionals in Berlin here.
More information about the demonstration here.
June 4th, 2024
Watch me dance exhibition in the courtyard
Campaign has started!
Once again this year, the 15 Watch me dance posters will be on display in our courtyard until the end of the campaign. The campaign will bring contemporary dance to Berlin's cityscape until mid-July and focuses on both the performers and the subjects of Berlin's 2,500 dance professionals.
At the opening of the campaign on 4 June, representatives from the dance scene, cultural policy and cultural administration, the TanzRaumBerlin network, Zeitgenössische Tanz Berlin ZTB e.V. and Tanzbüro Berlin took a look at the development of contemporary dance in Berlin - including the blatant underfunding of recent years and the precarization of dance professionals. Tanzbüro Berlin presented the TanzAgenda2024, which sets out the needs for the coming years. Click here for the TanzAgenda2024.
June 3th, 2024
Nationwide campaign week has started!
EUROPA DEN VIELEN!
Numerous campaigns and events will take place this week from June 3-9 to mark the nationwide campaign week of the alliance The many (Die Vielen). Under the motto EUROPE OF THE MANY!, the alliance, to which Uferstudios GmbH also belongs, aims to draw attention to the normalization of right-wing extremist positions in politics and society and to campaign for an open, free and pluralistic society and cultural landscape. The Berlin week will conclude with a major demonstration on Saturday, June 8th, 24.
March 1st, 2024
Making a Difference with new administration
On 1 March, we took over the projects administration of the Making a Difference network project. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Sophiensaele, the previous administrator of the project, as well as the project team, most recently consisting of Noa Winter, Anne Rieger, Gina Jeske and Agnieszka Habraschka! Thanks to the continuous work and tireless commitment of the last six years, Making a Difference has created structures that have promoted self-determined work in dance by disabled, d/Deaf and chronically ill artists!
While we are now making plans for the future together with the network, Berlin artists and allies, Making a Difference will initially be a little quieter over the next few months. The project will be handed over to a new Strategic Project Manager. The job advertisement will be published here shortly.
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January, 26th, 2024
Making a Difference Publication
Under the title "Making a Difference 2018 - 2024. Developing, cultivating and strengthening anti-ableist practice in the field of dance", the team and project partners of Making a Difference look back on the last six years. Interviews with artists and reports on developments in the network's partner organizations provide insights into the project practice to date. The publication also contains classifications of our perspectives on disability, ableism, privilege and audism as well as practical recommendations for anti-ableist working practices in the cultural sector and beyond.
You can download the publication here.
April 28th, 2023
trb magazine has a new look
After four months of reconception under Johanna Withelm as the new editorial director, the TanzRaumBerlin magazine of our partner, the Tanzbüro, presents itself for the first time in a new look! Take a look at the new issue, which thematically deals with beginnings.
April 15th, 2023
Infomingle at Flutgraben. The ZTB Party
The ZTB e.V. invites you to the Flutgraben on April 15th! A hybrid mix of infotainment, exchange, performances and party will inform about current projects, developments and needs in the Berlin dance landscape.
Free admission, everyone is welcome!
January 25th, 2023
We are part of the Youth Culture Card
From February 1, all 18- to 23-year-olds in Berlin have been able to use a 50 euros worth of cultural credit - in the form of the #YouthCultureCard, for which you can register until February 28. We are happy to be a part of the initiative! Until April 30, you can also visit us at the House with your youth culture card and redeem your culture credit. You can find all the information at www.jugendkulturkarte.berlin - we look forward to seeing you.
January 9th, 2023
New funding for Life Long Burning
Good news for the European network project Life Long Burning: Thanks to renewed funding, it will also be possible from 2023-2027 to drive forward the transformation of contemporary dance with various dance organizations in Europe. The project, which has been running since 2012, aims to expand existing structures and establish new sustainable structures in contemporary dance.