6 + 7 September 2025
Water is a source of life, a myth, and a mirror of social developments. In times of ecological crises and global change, the UM Festival 2025 is dedicated to the element of water – as a resource, symbol, and artistic material.
Contemporary positions from visual art, music, literature, performance, and installation enter into dialogue with the natural environment around the villages of Fergitz and Pinnow in the Uckermark. The works are consciously created outdoors – in a place where water is physically and atmospherically palpable.
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-oriented discussions – in the middle of nature.
Tickets online
or on site at the info desks (cash only on site)
€20 valid for both days / reduced €12 / children up to 12 free
UM 2025 – joining us
Curators
Art: Christof Zwiener · Music: Gudrun Gut · Literature: Ute Koenig
Visual Art
Mirja Busch · Tine Günther · Marie Jeschke · Stephanie Lüning · HakkaMoon · Tanja Ostojić · Paulette Penje · Carolin Seeliger · Ina Weise
Music
LIVE: Ensemble Atonor with sound objects by Erwin Stache · Natalie Beridze · Elizabeth Davis (Wilted Woman) · Robyn Schulkowsky + Teichmann Brothers · Tilo Alpermann · UMton Choir + Gudrun Gut · Yvois
DJ: Thomas Fehlmann · Glashaus DJ crew · DJ Leonore · DJ Tagträumer²
Literature
Kaleb Erdmann · Annett Gröschner · Caroline Schmitt
Moderation: Patricia Klobusiczky and Hannah del Mestre
Special Guest
Jackie la Mermaid
Islands
Island 1 | Sound Walk with Stiftung Zukunft Berlin, Björn Kern · Island 2 | Outdoor Games with Martin Eberle, Nina Rhode, Martina Schmücker, Katinka Pilscheur & Kevin Stefan · Island 3 | Greenhouse with Jeroen Jacobs, Wolfgang Plöger · Island 4 | Libken with Marie Donike, Johannes Specks · Island 5 | Floating with Iris Schomaker · Island 6 | fragile with Barbara Schnabel, eldoelle · Island 7 | Turn the Water Up with Sterns
Tickets online
or on site at the info desks (cash only on site)
€20 valid for both days / reduced €12 / children up to 12 free
PROGRAM for the 9th UM Festival 2025
Saturday, 6.9.2025
11:00 Festival opens
Ongoing: Contemporary art installations in and around Fergitz and Lake Wrietzen, curated by Christof Zwiener
Ongoing to listen to:
Listening Stations in Fergitz and around Lake Wrietzen. Curated by Ute Koenig (opening hours 11:00–18:00)
Listening Station – ‘Shared or divided – Shared Space Berlin-Brandenburg’ at the Bauakademie Fergitz (opening hours 11:00–18:00). The ‘Sound Walk’ in Fergitz is a project of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin.
NEW! THE ISLANDS:
The Islands are locations within the festival grounds where contemporary art can be experienced in many forms. The exhibitions and activities are independently curated by the respective Island participants and present a diverse, interdisciplinary spectrum.
Saturday, 6.9.2025
FERGITZ + Lake Wrietzen
11:00–19:00 Art walk Fergitz and Lake Wrietzen
11:00–13:00 Participatory intervention HakkaMoon
11:45–12:00 Performance at the dewatering canal with Paulette Penje
11:00–17:00 Workshop “Water is not only for washing …”
13:00–16:00 Afternoon sound DJ Tagträumer “Wasserbad”
15:30–17:00 Nature tour Thomas Habben – Meeting point: Gut Fergitz information
16:00–17:00 Intervention Tanja Ostojić (Lake Wrietzen)
16:00–17:30 Participatory intervention HakkaMoon
PINNOW
Firehouse
11:00–15:00 Island 4 – Libken – M. Donike + J. Specks
“Schweres Wasser schmeckt süß” Installation/Tasting
11:00–17:00 Further Islands with installations in Pinnow + Fergitz
Literature Barn (Barn 1920) – Readings
12:00–12:45 Annett Gröschner
12:45–13:00 Tilo Alpermann Intermission (live)
13:00–13:45 Caroline Schmitt
13:45–14:00 Tilo Alpermann Intermission (live)
14:00–14:45 Kaleb Erdmann
PINNOW – Concerts behind the church
16:30–18:00 DJ Leonore
18:00–18:10 Jackie la Mermaid (Performance)
18:10–18:50 Yvois (live)
18:50–19:20 Elizabeth Davis (live)
19:20–19:40 UMton Choir + Gudrun Gut
19:40–20:30 Ensemble Atonor (live)
20:30–22:00 Thomas Fehlmann (DJ Set)
22:00 Official end of the festival day
Sunday, 7.9.2025
FERGITZ + Lake Wrietzen
10:00–17:00 Art walk Fergitz and Lake Wrietzen
PINNOW
Firehouse
11:00–15:00 Island Libken
Installation/Tasting
Further Islands with installations in Pinnow
PINNOW – Concerts behind the church
13:00–14:00 Natalie Beridze (live)
FERGITZ – at the Gutshof
11:30–12:30 Talk: WATER – between droughts and floods
Dr. Franziska Tanneberger and Dr. Martin Flade
12:30–17:00 Workshop “Water is not only for washing …”
13:00–16:00 Afternoon sound – DJ Tagträumer – Wasserbad
13:30–15:00 Curator tour public
14:00–15:00 Intervention Lake Wrietzen Tanja Ostojić
14:30–16:00 Nature tour Nowatzki – Meeting point: Gut Fergitz information
15:00–15:30 Reading Björn Kern, Bauakademie Fergitz (“Shared or divided” program of Stiftung Zukunft Berlin)
15:00 Nature tour tbc
15:00–15:15 Performance at the dewatering canal – Paulette Penje
14:00–17:00 Teichmann Brothers & Robyn Schulkowsky Sound Installation
17:00 Official end of the festival
Tickets online
or on site at the info desks (cash only on site)
€20 valid for both days / reduced €12 / children up to 12 free
Media Partners:
Supporters
The sponsor of the project “Shared or divided – Shared Space Berlin-Brandenburg” is the Zukunftsforum Berlin-Brandenburg within the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin. The project is funded by Kulturland Brandenburg.
Partners
The Edition UM21 with prints by participating artists is still available online!
Organizer: Freunde der Uckermark e.V.