HYBRID Festival

HYBRID FESTIVAL

The HYBRID Festival is an immersive convergence of performance, technology, and collective learning. Seven curated multidisciplinary productions form the artistic heart of a 3 nights experience that extends far beyond the stage—into research collaborations, and cross-cultural dialogues. Here, the performing arts meet cutting-edge interactive and digital technologies in an environment designed for sharing, experimentation, and democratized knowledge exchange. HYBRID brings together diverse communities and practices, creating a festival ecosystem where artists are also researchers, audiences become participants, and every performance sparks new questions. This is a celebration with purpose: reviving the performance scene while building an inclusive, optimistic foundation for the creative future.
Program:
Friday — 3 Artists Program●     Dr. Chang Gao — Multimedia Artist & Postdoctoral Researcher | "Affective Encounters: Body, Wonder and Machines" — Intervenierende Künste at Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at Freie Universität Berlin●     Aljoša Dakić — Filmmaker & Media Artist | "Pipestream" — Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF●     Sandra Bak — Multimedia Artist | "Black Gold II" — University of Fine Arts Berlin
Saturday — 2 Artists Program●     Norbert Pape — Choreographer & Transdisciplinary Artist | "Ways_to_Wake_Up_5_More_Minutes._clip1”●     Viola Yip — Composer, Performer & Instrument Builder | "The Ombré of Touch"
Sunday — 2 Artists Program●     Christine Bonansea / Riccardo Castagnola — Choreograph, Componist & Video artist | „Mycelial Skin" ●     Sabine Ercklentz / Claudia Schmitz — Composer & Live Moving Image onto Sculpture | "INTER_SECTION #8 | RAUM:FALTEN"
Moderated dialogue with artists, the audience and invited guests on Friday, May 22, 2026:
●     Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne, Berlin University of the Arts, Professor of Performance and Time-Based Arts, Founder of art&dialogue, an intersectional feminist, artist-led initiative ●     Nuno N. Correia, Tallinn University (EE), Director of the MODINA European Platform ●     Prof. Dr. Lena Gieseke, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Professor of Image-based Media Technologies, Dean of the M.A. Creative Technologies, Co-Director of Creative Exchange Studio ●    Dr.-Ing. Angela Brennecke, Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF, Professor of Audio and Interactive Media Technologies, Co-Director of Creative Exchange Studio ●    Prof. Henrik Walter●    Prof. Partricia Gwozdz

2 Stunden

Festival Direction, Curation: Christine Saulut BonanseaFestival Management, Curation and Coordination of the Academic Program: Anastasia Putsykina

Next date:

• Date Friday, 22/May/2026 19:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Uferstudios - Uferstudio 1
• Address Badstraße 41a, 13357 Berlin-Wedding