PROGRAM for the 9th UM Festival 2025

Saturday, Sept 6, 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 places within the festival grounds where contemporary art can be experienced in diverse forms. The exhibitions and actions are independently curated by the respective Island participants and present a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary spectrum.

Saturday, Sept 6, 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
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, Sept 7, 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 info stand Gut Fergitz
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