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Elshan Ghasimi – „Tasneef“ · Fr 12.9. · 18:00 · Tieranatomisches Theater

Elshan Ghasimi – „Tasneef“ · Fr 12.9. · 18:00 · Tieranatomisches Theater

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© rtr mediaproduction

Dear Enthusiasts, 

On Friday, 12 September 2025Elshan Ghasimi will perform the fourth and, for now, final concert of her cycle “Tasneef” at the Tieranatomisches Theater (Campus Nord, Philippstraße 13, House 3, 10115 Berlin). 

Start: 6:00 pm

Arriving a bit earlier also allows a look at the small permanent exhibition and the exemplary neoclassical architecture of the venue. 

Admission is free.

All of Elshan Ghasimi's concerts

 

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Screening & Finissage · Tasneef-Final · Morphine-Raum

Screening & Finissage · Tasneef-Final · Morphine-Raum

Dear Festive Community,

Summer seemed to vanish before it even arrived – and now the rich array of autumn festivities is already upon us.

I am delighted to announce that Elshan Ghasimi’s long-awaited “final” Tasneef concert has at last secured one of Berlin’s most beautiful venues: the Tieranatomisches Theater (Charité Campus, Berlin-Mitte). Join us on 12 September 2025 at 6:00 pm – and feel free to come a bit earlier to admire the building’s extraordinary architecture and its small permanent exhibition.

Admission is free.

©Madeleine Brunnmeier_Image ©Morgan Morgan_Design

©Madeleine Brunnmeier_Image ©Morgan Morgan_Design

Morphine Raum · “Recording Session” with Elshan Ghasimi - 8 November

We’re excited to share an early highlight: at 8:00 pm on 8 November, Elshan Ghasimi will perform at Morphine Raum. Operated by Morphine Records, this unique venue is studio, stage, and sound laboratory in one – intimate, pared down to the essentials, and fitted with hand-crafted sculptural loudspeakers.

Founded at the very start of the pandemic, Morphine Raum has grown into a vital hub for international music – a retreat for collaboration, recording, and genre-defying experiments.

In this special setting, a live recording will be created together with the audience – a sonic distillation of nine years of artistic work.

Sergey Bratkov, Endless War, 2007, Video, 2,30min

Sergey Bratkov, Endless War, 2007, Video, 2,30min

Screening & Finissage · At the Threshold: Exile

On 3 September, we invite you to the Kommunale Galerie Berlin for a screening featuring works by Sergey Bratkov (Infinite War, Exile), Ula Golub (Arche Noah), Jalal Maghout (Have a Nice Dog!), Aline Kleytman (Place to See Before You Die), Oksana Kazmina (Yellow Dress), and Oksana Chepelyk (Chronicles of War).

The screening is part of the exhibition At the Threshold: Exile, curated by Eleonora Frolov. Six artistic voices from Ukraine and Syria do not merely document war and exile – they transform these realities into poetic, visual, and narrative forms. The result is a panorama of isolation, flight, fragmentation – and the deep longing to arrive.

The screening begins at 5:00 pm and will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

On Sunday, 7 September, from 3:00 to 6:00 pm, the exhibition concludes with a finissage and a curator’s tour led by Eleonora Frolov.

We look forward to welcoming you at one or more of these events.

With warm regards,
Julian Malte H. Schindele

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DUO (Elshan Ghasimi & Philipp Püschel): SCHANAMEH – Berlin Premiere, 15. September 2024

DUO (Elshan Ghasimi & Philipp Püschel): SCHANAMEH – Berlin Premiere, 15. September 2024

Elshan Ghasimi & Philipp Püschel

Dear lovers of living world cultures,

We cordially invite you to another concert at the ‘New Memories’ exhibition. The ‘Book of Kings’, the Shanameh, and thus the most crucial tale in Persian culture, which is rich in stories, takes centre stage. Newly staged, updated and reinterpreted for voice, tar, trumpet and electronics. Join us in looking forward to the Berlin premiere on Sunday, 15 September, at 5 PM. You are welcome to visit the exhibition from 3 PM, linger in the open area, and converse.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Eleonora Frolov and JMH Schindele

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From the Press release (Elshan Ghasimi & Philipp Püschel)

The Shahnameh (engl. ‘Book of Kings’) is one of the most famous works of world literature and tells the history and origins of the Persian-speaking world.

The newly formed duo Elshan Ghasimi & Philipp Püschel are now bringing this epic into the present day and developing a new concert format. Elshan Ghasimi is a composer, singer and virtuoso of the Persian long-necked lute tar. Philipp Püschel is a trumpeter and enhances his instrument with analogue effects and live electronics.

Based on the ‘RADIF’, the classical Persian art music, and inspired by the Shahnameh texts of the author Abū ʾl-Qāsim Firdausī (940-1020), the duo looks at the Eastern tradition from a contemporary perspective and interweaves it with the present.

Through jazz, free improvisation of tar and trumpet, live electronics, and reciting vocals, Ghasimi and Püschel enter into a dialogue across cultures and millennia.

Events

Curator-guided tour and artist talk with sculptor Ben Greber
on Sunday, 24 August 2024 and on Saturday, 21 September 2024, at 4 PM
Book a free ticket here

Finissage of the exhibition "New Memories (El Arbi Bouqdib Archive)"
On Sunday, 5 October, 2024 | 6 - 10 PM
Book a free ticket here

 

How to find us

Please note that the exhibition and performance venue Pumpwerk Berlin (am Pumpwerk 4, 12524 Berlin) is in Grünau. The journey from Alexanderplatz takes around 55 minutes. We therefore recommend that you allow sufficient time for this.

 

Concert Calendar

Take a look at the Elshan Ghasimi concert calendar. Maybe you can also hear her in your city. There are concerts in various German cities in the coming months (Munich, Essen, Hamburg, Magdeburg, etc.).

Concerts

NEW MEMORIES
EL ARBI BOUQDIB ARCHIVE

Artists: Sergey Bratkov, Elshan Ghasimi, Ben Greber, Markus Hoffmann, Michal Martychowiec, Patrick Panetta, Max Schaffer, Stark & Shakupa

 

Curated by Eleonora Frolov and JMH Schindele
Concept and initiative: JMH Schindele

 

Runtime: 18. August – 5. October 2024, Saturday and Sunday, 3 - 8 PM
Address: Pumpwerk Berlin, Am Pumpwerk 4, 12524 Berlin

Key Visual

Key Visual

© Video: Stark & Shakupa, Concerto21 Stiftung
© Photo: El Arbi Bouqdib Archive, Gestaltung Masoud Morgan

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Bild Kunst Kulturwerk
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