Activation Walk is a one-day performance series that unfolds as a group walk through Weißensee. At various locations throughout the urban space, Aurélie Pertusot, Monika Gabriela Dorniak, Paulette Penje, and Sarah Reva Mohr will present four interventions, ranging from sound-based works to performative readings and lecture-performances with a plant-related focus, to the activation of objects in public space. The walk invites the audience to experience the neighborhood as a living, performative body. Each stop becomes a temporary stage where the artists work directly with the textures, stories, and atmospheres of the neighborhood. The audience moves together through liminal spaces, parks, and overlooked places, transforming from observers into active participants.

Curated by Canberk Akçal, the walk views the city not as a static backdrop, but as an active landscape that is constantly being reimagined through presence, movement, and encounter.

The event concludes at Neun Kelche, where visitors can linger and engage in conversation with the artists.

Neun Kelche

Neun Kelche is a project space curated by Kira Dell and Laura Seidel on Pasedagplatz in Berlin-Weißensee. In May 2024, artist Neda Naujokaitė joined the team in the role of press and public relations officer and assistant curator.

Since early 2021, local artists have found a space here for exchange and encounter. The program is shaped by the local community and further developed through collaborations at the national and international levels. Neun Kelche works primarily with FLINTA* artists. In solo or duo exhibitions, site-specific installations are created, which are expanded through performance or film/video/sound.

The curatorial work of Kira Dell and Laura Seidel is grounded in a fundamentally power-critical and intersectional perspective. Thematically, they focus in particular on utopias of planetary coexistence between human and non-human agents, ideas of collective love, societal perspectives on parenthood, and the potential for action inherent in artistic materials. Rather than prescribing a rigid curatorial program, thematic overlaps with artists are sought through a collaborative negotiation process and in-depth studio visits, and the exhibitions are developed jointly from these. The Neun Kelche team critically examines the working structures within the art world, and the starting point for its curatorial work is always transparent, pre-agreed funding. Through long-term collaboration with project partners, Neun Kelche aims to counteract fast-paced working structures as an initiative.

Founded: 2021