Mirja Busch
Mirja Busch explores the phenomenon of the puddle – fleeting collections of water that appear with rain, spread out, and quickly vanish again.
In her site-specific research around Lake Wrietzen, she turns her gaze to what remains: edges of silt, plant deposits, imprints in the soil.
Mirja Busch has mapped the puddles and assigned them to three categories: short-lived, intermediate, and persistent. These traces make the ground legible and tell of the interplay between weather, time, and landscape.
Walking, observing, and documenting are part of her artistic process. The puddle is understood not only as a mirror but also as a sensitive archive – an indicator of climatic changes and topographic particularities.
In addition, Mirja Busch has collected samples of twenty particularly long-lasting puddles. These are presented in the "Puddle Archive" at the firehouse in Fergitz.
Pfützenarchiv | 1a
Object installation
20 glass bottles
Firehouse Fergitz
Nach dem Ende des Regens | 1b
Distributed object installation
Eight blue plastic signs on poles
Various locations around Lake Wrietzen
Stephanie Lüning
Stephanie Lüning works with ephemeral materials and process-oriented methods. At Lake Wrietzen she realizes a two-part work, with the parts presented at different times but closely connected in content and form.
In May 2025 she poured liquid beeswax directly into the water – an ephemeral gesture in which the lake, wind, and weather became co-creators. The resulting abstract form was later cast in metal and will be presented at the exact site of its origin in the lake during the exhibition.
About one kilometer away, Stephanie Lüning transforms a discarded boat into a source of shimmering foam that spreads, dissolves, and disappears. Both works revolve around themes such as transformation, transience, and the interplay of matter and movement.
For Stephanie Lüning, water is not a reflection but an active material – a medium in constant change that marks the threshold between form and dissolution.
Goldstück | 2a
Installation
gilded bronze cast, based on a beeswax mold created on site
Lake Wrietzen
Gestrandet | 2b
Installation
discarded rowboat
filled with water/foam
Path to Lake Wrietzen
Marie Jeschke
Marie Jeschke works site-specifically with water as a space of production. Her paintings are created in different lakes – beginning with the first underwater impressions in Lake Oberucker, developed further through sediment-like layers of paint in Lake Ton near Berlin, and completed in Lake Wrietzen. The work follows the principle of repetition and continuation.
On Lake Wrietzen it becomes part of a performative installation that takes place on the boat of a local fisherman. Visitors are warmly invited to join the ride and experience the work up close. Steering the boat herself, Marie Jeschke lets the painting drift, emerge, and disappear again. The lake becomes both a workspace and a carrier surface.
Here, water is not a backdrop but an active material. The painterly gesture remains closely connected with place, movement, and time. The work is part of an ongoing investigation into the relationship between body, landscape, nature, and artistic process – an exploration of how water takes shape, preserves memory, and creates visibility.
Zwischen Boot und Bild | 3
Painting, site-specific intervention
plant pigment, oil on canvas
mounted on a fishing rowboat
realized in collaboration with the fisherman of Lake Wrietzen, Mr. Latendorf
on Lake Wrietzen
HakkaMoon
In her work "I long for you – transient ecologies" HakkaMoon addresses the rough stonewort (Chara hispida), once native to Lake Wrietzen but now absent. Its disappearance points to a disrupted ecological balance: agricultural runoff, periods of drought, and rising water temperatures have overstrained the lake, altered biochemical processes, and destroyed fragile habitats.
HakkaMoon does not see the lake as a backdrop but as an injured organism – a counterpart in an ecological crisis. Her participatory textile work is a call for responsibility and an invitation: away from control and exploitation, towards care, relationship, collective action, and mutual exchange.
Here, water appears as a sensitive carrier of history, burden, and hope. The work combines artistic research with a social question: how can we encounter water – attentively, responsibly, with regard to what it needs and to what it remembers?
I long for you – transient ecologies | 4
Textile work, participatory installation
cotton nettle, thread, rhubarb, spices
Lake Wrietzen
Tanja Ostojić
In her work "Wrietzensee Tuch" artist Tanja Ostojić connects ecofeminist theory with a personal, site-specific practice. "Wrietzensee Tuch" emerged from an intensive engagement with the lake through swimming, observing, and remembering.
The starting point is a second-hand IKEA tablecloth that Tanja Ostojić found in Berlin, cleaned, prepared, and finally embroidered. Woven into the textile are the shape of Lake Wrietzen, experiences of menopause, intergenerational women’s knowledge, and direct impressions of the water on site.
The embroidery becomes a medium of reflection – slow, precise, and persistent. Water appears not only as a theme but as a co-creator: a carrier of memory, a site of care, and of transformation.
Tanja Ostojić renders the lake tangible as a space for the body, climate, and collective memory – opposing a logic of exploitation with a practice of listening and connecting.
Wrietzensee Tuch | 5
Embroidery and drawing
on cotton (“SOMMARFLOX 505.499.78, IKEA of Sweden, Made in Pakistan”, 2025)
Activation: Saturday and Sunday, 14:00–15:00
Lake Wrietzen
Tine Günther
Under the artist name Mylasher, Tine Günther developed "Wave of Venus", a ceramic installation that relates to the site and its surroundings. Nine open basins made of clay are aligned with the eight directions of the I Ching; a central, larger vessel forms the center and opens an imaginary space towards the others.
The archaic-looking forms recall spring basins or cultic containers – places of collecting, holding, and circulating. Water is not visible, yet it is present in the materiality of the clay: as trace, formal principle, and inner movement. The work responds to the vibrations of the landscape – to shorelines, expanses, light.
The ceramic bodies rest within themselves without appearing monumental. Their quiet order creates a field of tension between grounding and orientation. In this way, a site-specific choreography emerges that makes tangible the relationship between body, space, and element in a concentrated gesture.
Wave of Venus | 6
Sculpture, installation
glazed ceramics, high firing
clay and glaze
Lake Wrietzen
Ina Weise
With her work "Blaue Rohre" Ina Weise draws attention to technical infrastructures that deeply intervene in natural water systems. The starting point is a provisional, above-ground pipeline system for groundwater lowering, as used in urban construction projects. The striking, usually blue pipes have long since become a familiar part of the cityscape.
Ina Weise transfers such a system into the ecologically sensitive landscape of Lake Wrietzen in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. The intervention appears out of place – yet it is set deliberately and precisely. Without technical function, but with a clear sculptural presence, the pipes mark the rupture between control and an evolved natural environment.
Ina Weise is interested in the field of tension between visibility and suppression, between intervention and balance. Her sculptural intervention poses fundamental questions: Who shapes the landscape – by what means, from which perspective? "Blaue Rohre" is not a symbol but a concrete, material commentary on a quiet yet consequential reality.
Blaue Rohre | 7
Installation
blue drainage pipes
Lake Wrietzen
Paulette Penje
Paulette Penje works with the body, with water, and with the conditions of public space. Her performance in Fergitz takes the dewatering canal as a starting point – a technical system that regulates, redirects, and discharges water. The artist enters the canal, traverses it, and from there moves dripping wet through the village. In doing so, she leaves traces: puddles, drops, a damp trail. Her path becomes a performative drawing in space.
The gesture is at once precise and exaggerated – a play with dissolution of boundaries, vulnerability, and visibility. "effluent" is a site-specific work about permeability, control, and the relationship between body, water, and the public sphere. Paulette Penje’s practice combines elements of painting, action, and social sculpture.
The dewatering canal is not only crossed but becomes the starting point of a quiet questioning: Who flows where – and what remains behind?
effluent | 8
Performance
Fergitz
at the dewatering canal
Carolin Seeliger
Carolin Seeliger does not ask how to depict landscape, but how it can show itself. Her work "Waterscapes" consists of twelve terry bath towels entrusted to her, which she treated on site using the technique of cyanotype. The textiles were made light-sensitive and then exposed in natural waterscapes – on the shore of Lake Oberucker, in the reeds, on damp ground, or in the sun. Soil, algae, wind, and light have left traces that have permanently inscribed themselves into the fabric.
During the exhibition the towels are spread out on a meadow – as if just laid down by bathers to dry. In this gesture, everyday use, artistic method, and landscape presence come together.
Carolin Seeliger’s work emerges in close exchange with the site. She deliberately refrains from control and leaves the process to natural forces. The towels thus become carriers of a quiet dialogue between human and environment.
Waterscapes | 9
Cyanotype
10 used terry bath towels
Fergitz
Ensemble Atonor
Atonor engages with the electronic and acoustic sound objects of its founder Erwin Stache, which break out of their original function and into new worlds. Based on this, the ensemble develops an extraordinary repertoire that transcends genre boundaries, appeals equally to the sense of hearing and sight, and presents a mixture of experiment, sound art, humor, and rhythmic show.
Accordingly, Atonor has always been active in very different event formats throughout Germany and beyond, always with the aim of creating a situation in which the audience does not know what to marvel at more: the objects themselves or the way they are used.
Concert | 10
Saturday, 19:40
Pinnow Church
Erwin Stache + Atonor
Towering high, the stainless-steel rods of the installation "Kilo Ohm" rise into the air. When two of them are touched, sounds emerge. The firmer the grip, the more the sounds change: becoming higher, faster, deeper, or otherwise transformed.
Not far away stand three "Sound Trampolines". Each jump triggers a noise or tone, with the instruments constantly shifting. Percussive rhythms, flute playing, or electronic clusters can thus be generated while bouncing.
Across the lawn towards the lakeshore, pink inflatable flamingo swim rings are also distributed, striking up a kind of meditative melody: the "Bandonesian Swan Song".
These whimsical installations and numerous other interactive sound objects come from the workshop of Leipzig-based artist Erwin Stache. Ensemble Atonor, specialized in these eccentric instruments, leads its concert program into a world full of unfamiliar and curious things and events.
Sound Objects | 11
Sound experiments
Permanent exhibition
Garden of the manor house Pinnow
Natalie Beridze
The multidisciplinary artist Natalie "Tusia" Beridze is a star in Georgia and shows us the Black Sea in its most beautiful, dark melancholy. She is part of the Georgian creative laboratory Goslab and the artist collective Monika Werkstatt. She also teaches songwriting and music production at CES in Tbilisi, where she curated and released the acclaimed albums "Sleepers, Poets, Scientists" together with her students.
Since 2004 Beridze has been performing live worldwide and is known as the first female artist for electronic music from Georgia. From 2002 to 2008 she lived in Cologne, where she performed, composed, and produced under the artist name TBA. She was part of the "Mail Art" project by Ryuichi Sakamoto & David Sylvian at Chainmusic.
To date, Natalie Beridze has released 14 albums, including on Max.E, Monika Enterprise, CMYK, Laboratory Instinct, CES Records, and now on Room40. Beridze lives and works in Tbilisi.
Matinee Concert | 12
Sunday, 13:00
Pinnow Church
Elizabeth Davis
Elizabeth Davis / Wilted Woman is an artist and musician whose work often deals with the interplay of technological limitations, algorithmic processes, humor, and human expression/intervention. Davis’ output – mainly under the pseudonym Wilted Woman from 2014 to 2024 – resists easy categorization and ranges from minimalist electroacoustics and chamber music to harsh noise and dance music.
As a solo artist and collaborator, Davis has released over 20 albums to date on labels such as Alien Jams, Primitive Languages / Psychic Liberation, Phantasy, and Palto Flats. She has presented her work at the Sonic Acts Festival, Cafe Oto, Transmediale, ZKM, Fylkingen, MaerzMusik, Triennale Milano, 3HD Festival, Südwestrundfunk, as well as in many other concert halls, clubs, and festivals.
Davis also works as an engineer, educator, and radio producer. Previously she ran the label Untergang-Institut and co-curated the monthly concert series for electronic music Power Loom at KM28 together with Bridget Ferrill. She lives in Berlin. Elizabeth Davis was part of the residency program of Musicboard at Sternhagen Gut / Uckermark.
Concert | 13
Saturday, 18:50
Pinnow Church
Tilo Alpermann
Tilo Alpermann is a German composer and sound designer, best known to a wider audience through his multiple award-winning soundtracks for video games such as "The Night of the Rabbit", "The Pillars of the Earth", and "The Whispered World: Silence". Although his repertoire spans various musical styles and genres, his way of creating unique music and soundscapes is always unforgettable.
As a sound designer for films, he has contributed to international productions such as the BAFTA- and Golden Globe-nominated film "The Reader". Tilo studied musicology at Humboldt University in Berlin, holds a degree in audio engineering, and works as a lecturer in film sound at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences.
Floating – Intermission to the Readings | 14
Improvisations on harmonium and more
Saturday, 12:45 + 13:45
Pinnow Literature Barn
Robyn Schulkowsky + Gebrüder Teichmann
Robyn Schulkowsky and the Teichmann brothers weave acoustic nets of percussion, sound objects, and live electronics. Their performances are physical and sensorial experiences – intense dialogues with space and audience.
Andi and Hannes did not know that Robyn is a legendary percussionist – connected with John Cage, Morton Feldman, and Christian Wolff, with performances in Grand Central Station and a two-week concert at Expo 2000 together with percussionists from all over the world. Nor did Robyn know the brothers beforehand, their unconventional approaches to electronics, or their projects in Pakistan, Kenya, and Central Asia.
The three understood each other immediately – and can now be experienced together in a multi-hour installative concert in Fergitz.
Concert | 15
Tam-tam, percussion
Andi & Hannes Teichmann: live electronics, live sampling
Sunday, 14:00–17:00
Gutshof Fergitz
UMton CHOR
UMton is a choir founded in 2023 from the villages of Groß and Klein Fredenwalde, Böckenberg, Willmine, Templin, Stegelitz, Neudorf, Ringenwalde, and others. UMton rehearses approximately every two weeks in the old fire station in Groß Fredenwalde and is open to new singers (especially male voices). The choir sings – mostly a cappella – a mixed repertoire of sacred, secular, and pop music and regularly performs in churches and at festivals in the Uckermark region.
For the UM Festival the theme of water is taken up, with a premiere exclusive collaboration with Gudrun Gut. The artistic direction of the choir is in the hands of Verena Usemann – opera singer, vocal coach, and founder of Bühnenmütter e.V.
Concert | 16
Special Guest: Gudrun Gut
Saturday, 19:20
Pinnow Church
Yvois
Yvois is a producer born in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and based in Berlin. In her Treetop Studio she creates warm, quirky beats and atmospheric acoustic sounds with collections of dusty guitar pedals, warbling tape machines, and found sounds.
She is also the founder of the Éclat Crew Berlin – a collective of FLINTA music producers. Yvois was part of the residency program of Musicboard at Sternhagen Gut / Uckermark.
Concert | 17
Saturday, 18:10
Pinnow Church
Thomas Fehlmann
The musical career of Thomas Fehlmann was decisively shaped by his work with the band "Palais Schaumburg". Founded in 1980 in Hamburg together with Holger Hiller, their declared playing fields were boundary-crossing, pleasure-driven, and electronic. Fehlmann continues to be active as part of the Berlin-Detroit Connection, working with Terrence Dixon, Juan Atkins, and others, and was a member of the British band "The Orb" for 20 years.
In the 2000s Fehlmann produced the "OceanClub Radioshow" together with Gudrun Gut for RadioEins. He has released dozens of solo records on the Kompakt label, performed concerts all over the world, and composed several film soundtracks, including for the TV documentary "24h Berlin". Most recently, the album "UMDREHEN" was released on Edition Dur.
DJ Set | 18
Saturday, 20:30
Pinnow Church
DJ Tagträumer²
Robert Stolt, alias Tagträumer², is a musician and DJ who has been traveling the world for over 15 years, transforming his experiences into unique soundscapes. Inspired by his performances in countries such as China, Lebanon, Mongolia, and Ukraine, he incorporates these impressions into his productions and DJ sets.
With his label BlackFoxMusic, founded in 2007, and further projects such as Schallbox Rec. and Neopren, he has shaped the electronic music scene. He performs his DJ craft exclusively with vinyl, no matter where he appears.
DJ Set | 19
Saturday, 13:00–16:00
Gutshof Fergitz
Annett Gröschner
Annett Gröschner’s novel "Schwebende Lasten" is a multilayered, atmospherically dense work that deals with the upheavals of German history and their immediate impact and aftereffects on the individual. With precise observation and great empathy, she tells the life story of Hanna Krause, who was a flower binder before life made her a crane operator.
She experienced two revolutions, two dictatorships, an uprising, two world wars and two defeats, two democracies, the Kaiser and other leaders, good times and bad, gave birth to six children and could not bury two of them, which stayed with her until the end of her life. In this figure, the history of the 20th century is reflected in a particularly striking way.
Schwebende Lasten | 20
Novel, C.H.Beck 2025
Read by Annett Gröschner
12:00–12:45
Literature Barn (Barn 1920) Pinnow
Caroline Schmitt
Ideology – or, as in Caroline Schmitt’s novel “Monstergott”, faith versus facts – this tension shapes our present as rarely before. And in this tension live Ben and Esther, who lead a modern life but also one in close relationship to God and to what He expects of them.
Ben is homosexual – he tries to exorcise his sexuality; Esther feels supported by the community but at the same time discriminated against as a woman. Both sense that the Christian path is proving to be a gravel road of life.
Monstergott | 21
Novel, Ullstein Verlag 2025
Read by Caroline Schmitt
13:00–13:45
Literature Barn (Barn 1920) Pinnow
Kaleb Erdmann
Kaleb Erdmann’s novel "Die Ausweichschule" is the literary exploration of the school shooting at the Erfurt Gutenberg Gymnasium in 2002. The narrator experiences that day as an 11-year-old student at the school. He is evacuated together with his classmates and, in the following weeks, observes the helplessness of the adults in the face of this act.
More than twenty years later, the event breaks unexpectedly into his life again and triggers an obsessive preoccupation with the subject, which is to become a novel project; but why reopen old wounds after so many years?
His novel is a skillful play with perspectives, a piece of autofiction that is both critical of the audience (how voyeuristic is our interest in processing acts of violence?) and self-critical (what gives me the right to write about this day?). The text carries enormous force: someone approaches his own past – cautiously, with inner respect, without self-certainties.
Kaleb Erdmann raises important questions: how do we process memories and traumas – individually, but also artistically and as a society. Pointed, personal, unsettling, this is a negotiation of a phenomenon that concerns us worldwide.
Die Ausweichschule | 22
Novel, Ullstein Verlag 2025
Read by Kaleb Erdmann
14:00–14:45
Literature Barn (Barn 1920) Pinnow
Jackie la Mermaid
Jackie Asadolahzadeh is a print and online author, performance artist, and dancer. She developed artistic characters such as the mermaid of the Oceanclub, for which she wrote stories from the underwater world, as well as the nightlife reporter Jackie A., whose columns "Zwischen Disko und Dispo" appeared in the book "Apple zum Frühstück" at Blumenbar Verlag, and whose subsequent texts continue to be published in the TIP city magazine.
She has moderated panel discussions for the Political Women’s Council at the Potsdam Museum and danced with pain patients at the Fibromyalgia Congress in the Falkensee town hall.
Performance | 23
Saturday, 18:00
Pinnow Church
Sound design: Thomas Fehlmann
Hörstationen
Listening Stations
Do you know about water therapy? What is water, anyway? And how does salt get into water? What role does water play in culture, philosophy, and religion? And, and, and…
News from the world of water – learn with Jackie la Mermaid at the listening stations, which invite you to expand your knowledge in Fergitz, around Lake Wrietzen, and on stage in Pinnow.
Listening Stations | 24 – 28
The 5 listening stations were curated by Ute Koenig
and produced by Jackie la Mermaid.
Sound design: Thomas Fehlmann
Saturday, 11:00–18:00
Sunday, 11:00–17:00
Fergitz and around Lake Wrietzen
Wasser ist…
Since 2014, the UM Festival has included students from regional schools in order to share changes in the environment with new impulses and values, and to encourage students’ initiative thinking through creative action. In July, students from the Active School Prenzlau and the Einstein Gymnasium Angermünde came together for a joint art project week at Gut Fergitz under the theme "WATER is not only for washing".
The geopolitical topic plays a special role in the Uckermark and in the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve. Through peatland management and paludiculture, new opportunities are arising for residents and the economy. In workshops, techniques for alternative living by the water were tested. Impulses came through presentations on water/art/architecture, excursions with Naturwacht Warnitz to explore habitats of animals–nature–humans, and to a reed roof to convey both old and new craftsmanship.
The project week was initiated by Ilona Kálnoky and Ferdinand Hohenzollern and accompanied by art teachers Anett Ohnesorge, Caro Grosse, Zoe Niemann, and Kerstin Hahn. The project was supported by the Brandenburg Platform for Cultural Education.
Workshop/Exhibition | 29
Sunday, 12:30
Gutshof Fergitz
WASSER – zwischen Dürren und Fluten
A conversation about the opportunities and challenges of water use – thought globally, rooted regionally.
The focus is not on pessimism, but on the possibilities for a conscious approach to water.
40 min talk, 20 min Q&A, moderation: Barbara Scherle
Invited to the talk:
Dr. Franziska Tanneberger is a peatland researcher and has headed the Greifswald Moor Centrum since 2015. In 2024 she received the German Environmental Award.
Dr. Martin Flade is a landscape planner, conservationist, and was director of the Schorfheide-Chorin Biosphere Reserve from 2013 to 2016 and from 2018 to 2024.
Barbara Scherle (moderation) is Chief of Staff at the ProSieben/Sat.1 capital office and produced the online series on biodiversity for the Futurium Berlin. She has also long been a convinced resident of the Uckermark.
Talk | 30
Sunday, 11:30
Park Barn Gut Fergitz
Soundwalk
City-Countryside-(Data-)River: Conversations about Berlin and Brandenburg
With a “Sound Walk” in Fergitz, the project "Shared or divided – Shared Space Berlin-Brandenburg" of the Stiftung Zukunft Berlin is a guest at the UM Festival. Committed actors from culture, politics, and civil society of the Uckermark and Berlin speak out on digital transformation. They talk about the opportunities of networking and the loss of local structures in the corridor between Brandenburg and Berlin, in the rural area and the metropolis.
The recordings, arranged into an audio installation, stem from personal and controversial conversations about new neighborhoods, participation, and regional identity in the digital age, which were recorded in September 2024 in a future lab at Gutshaus Friedenfelde. The results of this exchange will be presented publicly for the first time on September 6 and 7, 2025, in the form of a “Sound Walk.” Afterwards, there will be the opportunity to enter into conversation together.
The audio installation will be supplemented on September 6 by a moderated conversation under the title "Listening Station for Dialogue" and on September 7 by a "Reading for Reflection", in which author Björn Kern will read from his work "The Best We Can Do Is Nothing".
Listening Station and Reading | Island 1
Saturday, September 6: A Listening Station for Dialogue
Sunday, September 7: A Reading for Reflection
Under the cherry tree in front of the “Bauakademie Fergitz”,
Barbara Schindler & Nikolai von Rosen
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 and carried out together with the UM Festival, Gutshaus Friedenfelde, the Oderbruchmuseum Altranft – Workshop for Rural Culture, the Museum Utopia and Everyday Life Beeskow/Eisenhüttenstadt, the Gebäudewirtschaft Eisenhüttenstadt, Lausitziade gGmbH, and other network partners.
Outdoor Games
OUTDOOR GAMES presents works in a spacious private garden. The participating artists are connected to the Uckermark and live and/or work regularly in the surrounding area. The exhibition thus emerged as a neighborhood collective. The KunstKantine in the garden invites visitors to take a break.
Exhibition | Island 2
Martin Eberle, photography
Nina Rhode, sound & installation
Martina Schmücker, performance & installation
Katinka Pilscheur & Kevin Stefan, Die KunstKantine
The island Outdoor Games is located at Potzlower Seenblick
between Potzlow and Fergitz
Greenhouse
Jeroen Jacobs develops design processes in which the inherent dynamics of the material and the energy of the sculptural act stand in contrast to everyday understandings of material. The goal is to create an independent expression of the material, in which its specific character merges with controlled sculptural form into a whole.
While concrete usually serves as a precisely moldable construction material, Jacobs highlights its amorphous tendencies in his sculptures. His working method does not conceal or overcome formlessness but makes it visible and physically tangible – the sculptures occupy space, displace, create new spaces, and direct the movement of viewers.
Wolfgang Plöger questions what is given and re-examines the hierarchies of the visible. Instead of pursuing originality, he follows a practice of contextual shift. In his long-term project Image Search Library he investigates the transition from the analog to the digital image regime and the transformation of authorship and distribution in the internet age. His main media are film, photography, and printing techniques – from traditional letterpress and serigraphy to 3D printing. He lives and works in Berlin.
Exhibition | Island 3
Greenhouses Berta Fischer
Pinnow
Libken Stipendiaten
Water is omnipresent. It can be gentle, it can be brutal. As former Libken culinary fellows, Marie Donike and Johannes Specks invite us to gently perceive this ambivalence. In their collaborative artistic practice, they explore cultural-historical aspects of cuisine and places of conviviality.
From an installative setup emerges a site-specific work that includes an active participatory moment. Humor and the gentle shifting of visual habits allow for accessibility and the emergence of new personal perspectives. Their theoretical and practical approach also involves collecting and processing food, as well as multilayered documentation of these activities.
Marie Donike (*1992) and Johannes Specks (*1991) lived together in Libken (Böckenberg/Gerswalde) for three months in 2017 as part of their culinary fellowship. The two work project-based as a duo. For the UM Festival they are developing a site-specific installation in the old firehouse in Pinnow, which invites visitors to taste. Their work "Schweres Wasser schmeckt süß" (“Heavy Water Tastes Sweet”) reflects on the paradoxical qualities of water.
Schweres Wasser schmeckt süß | Island 4
Installation / site-specific intervention with culinary elements
Firehouse Pinnow
Tasting: Saturday & Sunday, 11:00–15:00
Floating + Iris Schomaker
On the island "Floating", the book The Water Runs Through Us: Experimental Water Filtration Systems and Practices by Katherine Ball (design: Felix Egle) is presented. The book tells of water, the Floating University, and alternative methods of water treatment. Yet technology alone is not enough – what matters is our relationship to water.
Egle and Wildner present insights into the research project on organic water filtration systems and talk about personal approaches to a conscious engagement with water.
Also on Island 5, artist Iris Schomaker presents her works. Her paintings take us on a journey without a predetermined path, into landscapes that are both familiar and strange. The images line up, shapes and contours meet, merge. Drawings create connections, sometimes pairings: the swimmer enters the landscape, captured in motion, reaching beyond the boundaries of the picture.
Floating: The Water Runs Through Us | Island 5
Presentation: Saturday, 11:00–17:00
Exhibition: Iris Schomaker
Barn 1920, Pinnow
Fragile
The artists present works from different bodies of work. Central is the engagement with memory and transience as a time dimension of human existence, including their joint work "in memoriam", which commemorates the art historian Wolfgang Siano (1948–2024).
The photographic spaces outlined by Barbara Schnabel in her images are marked by a particular fragility. With her precise perception she reveals subtle changes caused by climatic and social influences. These resonant spaces, telling stories of transformation, loss, and hope, correspond with the works of el.doelle from the early 1990s – delicate, elongated figures in iron and bronze.
His new works ironically comment on the growing global crises and the fragility of human existence.
Exhibition | Island 6
Barbara Schnabel, photography
el.doelle, sculpture
Barn Pinnow
„Stellt das Wasser lauter“
To feel like a fish in water: like trout in Lake Sternhagen. Or like perch. Trout are mute; but they hear their prey and sense danger. Perch send signals, between 100 and 500 Hz, when spawning or in defense – sound waves beneath water waves.
No matter how precarious the feeling may be, when rain pours down on the surface, sometimes in torrents, sometimes sparsely. Let us listen to the fish. In summer, a primary experience of hoped-for immersion and at the same time an impossible sense of assent: when, for example, the water runs dry and seeps away. Let us listen to the plants.
What if inside water (the H₂O molecule) it is not wet at all? What if it is not (grasp-)able? Water as an abstract, transparent, dissociative medium that regulates volume: as spectrographic as its particles, as acoustic as its bonds.
Die Sterns | Island 7
Rainer Bellenbaum, Sabeth Buchmann, Regina Dold, Stephan Geene, Susanne Leeb
Sound installation
4WE Pinnow