Day — 01 (25.01)

6:00 pm
Exhibition
7:00 pm
Alexandra Gruebler / Baal & Mortimer (concert)
7:30 pm
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (concert)
10:00 pm
Above Our Waters – A/V Live Performance – Qusay Awad & Dhia Douss Inviting Rand Abou Fakher

Day — 02 (26.01)

4:00 pm
Exhibition
7:00 pm
Kiarostami Short Film Festival (8 films by 8 artists) followed by a talk with curator Hamed Soleimanzadeh

Day — 03 (27.01)

4:00 pm
Exhibition
7:00 pm
Three films by Bill Morrison Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), Incident (2023), Buried News (2021)

Day — 04 (28.01)

4:00 pm
Exhibition
7:00 pm
Activations of virtual Kotti

Day — 05 (29.01)

4:00 pm
Exhibition
7:00 pm
Activations of virtual Kotti
Evelyn Bencicova, Codrin Talaba
PHOTO WORK:
Artificial Tears II, project by Evelyn Bencicova | Model: Petra Firbasova (5etra) | Tulle pieces and styling: Julia Bajanova | Set design: Synthtati | Assistance: Jana Marx, Paula Otten (Stink Berlin)
PHOTO WORK: Artificial Tears II, project by Evelyn Bencicova | Model: Petra Firbasova (5etra) | Tulle pieces and styling: Julia Bajanova | Set design: Synthtati | Assistance: Jana Marx, Paula Otten (Stink Berlin)

Natalia Evelyn Bencicova constructs narrative scenarios that blur the lines between reality, memory, and imagination “fiction based on truth”. Depicting multifaceted representations as illusions, Evelyn plays with the viewer’s perception to entice them into the labyrinth of their imagination. In 2019, Evelyn’s practice shifted from photography to more immersive and experimental forms of storytelling. Working collaboratively on worldbuilding in 3D and virtual reality, she became increasingly interested in experience itself and how its boundaries can be challenged in digital space as well as physical multi-sensory installations.

Codrin Talaba is a former architect turned design researcher, exploring how we capture memories in multi-sensory ways. He uses immersive visualization tools, like VR and LiDAR scanning, to communicate the takeaways of human experience in physical places - in cinematic ways that evoke sensations somewhere between memories and dreams.