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
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
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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