6.+ 7. September 2025
Water is the source of life, a myth and a mirror of social developments. In times of ecological crises and global upheaval, the UM Festival 2025 is dedicated to the element of water – as a resource, symbol and artistic material.
Contemporary works from the fields of visual arts, music, literature, performance and installation enter into dialogue with the natural environment surrounding the villages of Fergitz and Pinnow in the Uckermark region. The works are deliberately created outdoors – in a place where water can be felt both physically and atmospherically.
The festival invites visitors to experience water from different perspectives: as a cultural medium, an endangered basis of life or a poetic motif. Visitors move between sculptures, texts, sounds and interventions – and become part of a polyphonic dialogue about visibility, change and responsibility.
‘Water’ is an artistic investigation and an impulse for conscious perception and future-orientated discussions – in the middle of nature.
UM 2025 – joining us
Curators
Art: Christof Zwiener · Music: Gudrun Gut · Literature: Ute Koenig
Visual arts
Mirja Busch · Tine Günther · Marie Jeschke · Stephanie Lüning · HakkaMoon · Tanja Ostjojić · Paulette Penje · Carolin Seeliger · Ina Weise
Music
LIVE: Ensemble Atonor with sound objects by Erwin Stache · Natalie Beridze · Elisabeth Davis · Robyn Schulkowsky + Gebrüder Teichmann · Tilo Alpermann · UMton Choir + Gudrun Gut · Yvois
DJ: Thomas Fehlmann · Glashaus DJ crew · DJ Leonore · DJ Tagträumer
Literature
Kaleb Erdmann · Annett Gröschner · Caroline Schmitt
Moderators: Patricia Klobusiczky and Hannah del Mestre
Special Guest
Jackie la Mermaid
Islands
Island 1 I Sound Walk with Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, Björn Kern · Island 2 I Outdoor Games with Martin Eberle, Nina Rhode, Martina Schmücker, Katinka Pilscheur & Kevin Stefan · Island 3 I Greenhouse with Jeroen Jacobs, Wolfgang Plöger · Island 4 I Libken with Marie Donike, Johannes Specks · Island 5 I Floating with Iris Schomaker · Island 6 I fragile with Barbara Schnabel, eldoelle · Island 7 I Turn up the water with Sterns
PROGRAM for the 9th UM Festival 2025
Saturday, 6 September 2025
11:00 The festival opens
Continuously on display: contemporary art installations in and around Fergitz and Lake Wrietzen, curated by Christof Zwiener.
Can be heard continuously:
Listening stations in Fergitz and around Lake Wrietzen. Curated by Ute Koenig (opening hours 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.)
Listening station – ‘Shared or divided – shared space Berlin-Brandenburg’ at the Fergitz Building Academy. (Opening hours 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.). The ‘Sound Walk’ in Fergitz is a project of the Zukunft Berlin Foundation.
NEW! THE ISLANDS:
The islands are locations within the festival grounds where contemporary art can be experienced in a wide variety of forms. The exhibitions and activities are curated independently by the respective island participants and showcase a diverse, interdisciplinary spectrum.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
PINNOW
Fire station
11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. – Island 4 – Libken Island
“Heavy water tastes sweet” Installation/Tasting
Additional islands with installations in Pinnow + Fergitz
Literature Barn – Readings
12:00 – 13:00 Annett Gröschner
13:00 – 13:30 Tilo Alpermann Intermission (live)
13:30 – 14:30 Caroline Schmitt
14:30 – 15:00 Tilo Alpermann Intermission (live)
15:00 – 16:00 Kaleb Erdmann
FERGITZ – im Gutshof
11:00 – 12:30 Kuratorenführung Vereinsmitglieder
12:30 – 12:45 Performance am Entwässerungsgraben – Paulette Penje
11:00 – 17:00 Workshop „Wasser ist nicht nur zum Waschen da…“
13:00 – 16:00 DJ Tagträumer – „Wasserbad“
15:30 – 17:00 Naturführung Thomas Habben Treffpunkt Infostand Gut Fergitz
16:00 – 17:00 Intervention Wrietzensee Tanja Ostojić
PINNOW – Concerts behind the church
18:00 – 18:10 Jackie la Mermaid (Performance)
18:10 – 18:50 Yvois (live)
18:50 – 19:30 Elizabeth Davis (live)
19:30 – 20:00 UMton Chor + Gudrun Gut
19:45 – 20:40 Ensemble Atonor (live)
20:40 – 22:10 Thomas Fehlmann (DJ Set)
10:10 p.m. Official end of the festival day
Sunday, 7.9.2025
FERGITZ
Talk and workshop
11:30 – 12:30 Talk: WASSER – zwischen Dürren und Fluten
Dr Franziska Tanneberger und Martin Flade
12:30 – 17:00 Workshop „Wasser ist nicht nur zum Waschen da…“
13:30 – 15:00 Kuratorenführung public
14:00 – 15:00 Intervention Wrietzensee Tanja Ostojić
14:00 – 17:00 Gebrüder Teichmann & Robyn Schulkowsky Sound Installation
15:00 – 15:30 Lesung Björn Kern, Bauakademie Fergitz (“Shared or Devided” Programm der Stiftung Zukunft Berlin)
15:00 – 16:00 Naturführung Nowatzki – Treffpunkt Infostand Gut Fergitz
15:00 – 15:15 Performance am Entwässerungsgraben – Paulette Penje
PINNOW
Fire station
11:00 – 15:00 Insel Libken
Installation/Tasting
Weitere Inseln mit Installationen in Pinnow
PINNOW – Concerts behind the church
13:00 –14:00 Natalie Beridze (live)
FERGITZ – im Gutshof
14:00-17:00 Gebrüder Teichmann & Robyn Schulkowsky Sound Installation
14:30 Naturführung Volpers
15:00 Perfomance Paulette Penje
17:00 Offizielles Ende des Festivals
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Träger des Projekts „Shared or divided – geteilter Raum Berlin-Brandenburg“ ist das Zukunftsforum Berlin-Brandenburg innerhalb der Stiftung Zukunft Berlin. Das Vorhaben wird gefördert von Kulturland Brandenburg.
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